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JACKSON, N.J. (July 1, 2009) – Bowling fans will be treated to three and half hours

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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