ESPN to Air Seven GEICO PBA Team Shootout Matches This Sunday

Team GEICO, with Lumber Liquidators Professional Bowlers Association Tour stars
Chris Barnes, Patrick Allen, Mike Wolfe, Mika Koivuniemi, reigning Player of the
Year Wes Malott and Brad Angelo, has taken a 2-1 lead after four round-robin matches
in the made-for-TV team tournament.
Conducted outdoors on specially-constructed lanes at New Jersey’s Six Flags Great
Adventure theme park, three of the best teams ever assembled compete in a Baker
Scoring System format which requires five members of the team to roll two frames in
one game combining for one score.
Trailing Team GEICO, is Team Bayer (Tommy Jones, Jason Belmonte, Sean Rash, Rhino Page, Michael Fagan and Bill O’Neill) with a 1-1 record and Team Lumber Liquidators (Norm Duke, Mike Scroggins, Pete Weber, Steve Jaros, Parker Bohn III and Walter Ray Williams Jr.) at 1-2.
All three teams bowl in round-robin match play on a variety of lane conditioning
patterns leading up to a championship round. The top two teams based on match play
record will advance to a championship contest that includes singles, doubles and
Baker-style team matches. The championship round will air on ESPN on Sunday, July 12.
GEICO PBA Team Shootout standings (as of June 28)
Team GEICO 2-1
Team Bayer 1-1
Team Lumber Liquidators 1-2
ESPN GEICO PBA Team Shootout Schedule (all times Eastern)
Sunday, July 5
1-1:30 p.m. – Show 5
1:30-2 p.m. – Show 6
2-2:30 p.m. – Show 7
2:30-3 p.m. – Show 8
3-3:30 p.m. – Show 9
3:30-4 p.m. – Show 10
4-4:30 p.m. – Show 11
Sunday, July 12
1-1:30 p.m. – Show 12
1:30-2 p.m. – Show 13
2-2:30 p.m. – Show 14
2:30-3 p.m. – Show 15
About the PBA
The Professional Bowlers Association (PBA) features the best bowlers in the world
competing in National, Regional and Senior Tour events and awarded $4.3 million in
prize money during the 2008-09 Lumber Liquidators PBA National Tour. The
organization has more than 4,000 members spanning 13 countries, and nearly one
million viewers tune-in to watch the Lumber Liquidators PBA Tour every Sunday on
ESPN throughout the season. PBA sponsors include Bayer, Brunswick, CLR, Denny’s,
Etonic, Flomax, GEICO, Go RVing, H&R Block, Lumber Liquidators, Pepsi-Cola and the
USBC, among others. For more information on the PBA, log on to www.pba.com
of televised bowling Sunday when seven matches of the GEICO PBA Team Shootout Hosted by Six Flags will be aired on ESPN beginning at 1 p.m. Eastern.
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