Rio Rancho, N.M. – Dale Coffee traveled down from Colorado to capture the title in the Dual Pattern Challenge held at Tenpins & More. 49 Bowlers from New Mexico and Colorado came to test their abilities on the long and short shots that were put out Sunday. The first round was led by Pete Sheridan of Albuquerque who averaged 237 (+186) the first 5 games to ensure bonus bowling and moving onto the next round. Only 20 bowlers would make it into the cut for the second round and the number ended up being at 1006 (+6) to move on to bowl 3 more games after scores reset to decide the top 4 in the stepladder. 

Pete continued his hot hand and posted a 712 (+112) in the 3 games of the advancer round, but was surpassed by Dale Coffee who managed to get to 742 (+142; 247 average) to lock up the 1 seed in the stepladder. The other Finalists who bowled well enough to earn a spot in the stepladder were Dennis Helmick (+82) and Michael Devore (+81) to snag the 3 and 4 seeds. 10 positions were paid out in this tournament, the bottom line for a cash spot was 633 (+30). 

Michael Devore of Santa Fe came out hot in the first match and was able to handle Dennis Helmick of Rio Rancho 246-211 who had a great tournament overall. He then went on to face our first round leader Pete Sheridan who continued to string enough strikes together to finish with a 248 game, making Devore have to get the first strike in the 10th to potentially win or force a roll off. Unfortunately for Devore, a 10 pin on a well executed shot on the first throw of the 10th ended his day and advanced Sheridan to the finals to face Coffee. 

In the finals, bowlers exchanged open frames in the first half of the match before each threw 3 strikes in a row in the middle frames. In the 8th frame, the small run ended for both bowlers. Pete left a 10pin (spare) and Coffee left 3-6-10 that he ended up chopping the 3-6 off, leaving the 10 standing. With no decisive winner at this moment and a tie still looming on the scoreboard, Dale delivered a strike in the 9th frame that was quickly matched by Pete. Pete then moving for his 10th frame on the short pattern went high leaving a 3-10 that he unfortunately missed ending his game with 193. Dale then had a window to lock up the match on the long pattern, which was the one he had the most confidence with throughout the tournament and selected to finish his game on being that he was the higher seed. He delivered the first two strikes in the 10th and a final strike for good measure to lock the title with a 213 game. 

Congratulations to Dale Coffee on his victory and thank you for traveling to all of our events, being a wonderful supporter of what we are doing with bowling in New Mexico. Additionally, a big thank you to all who came out to support the event and the staff at Tenpins & More for all of the help today, keeping the event running as smoothly as possible.