Handicap Champions - Charles Vigil & Raymond Archuleta 

Albuquerque, N.M. – In back to back weekends, scratch and handicap bowlers came out to participate in two huge firsts for NMCTS, our first doubles events and first time hosting events at Skidmore's Holiday Bowl. On top of that, with Holiday's recently installed Qubica AMF Edge String Pinspotters and BES NV scoring, these NMCTS events would become the first tournaments on string pins in the state of New Mexico! 

Both weekends combined for 78 bowlers that made up 39 teams of both Scratch and Handicap Bowlers as well as many first-time NMCTS participants. Thank you to all who came out and gave our tournaments a try for the first time, we hope to see you all again soon! We would like to congratulate our Scratch & Handicap Advancer Rounds Teams, as well as our Champions! Last but not least, thank you to Qubica AMF and Hops & Dough Taproom for sponsoring these events!

Scratch Baker Championship Advancer Round Teams:

• Matthew Tran & Nathan Tran

• Brain Hare & Adrienne Hare

• Dale Coffee & JD Nance

• Robert Barteau & Lauren Jaramillo

• Raymond Archuleta & Bennie Vigil

• Aileen Linares & Dana Miller-Mackie

• Cody Beavers & Robin Prioleau

• Jacob Gill & Gary Gill

Scratch Baker Championship Stepladder:

Championship Match

(1) Jacob Gill & Gary Gill 257 (Champions)

(2) Dale Coffee & JD Nance 158

Match 2

(2) Jacob Gill & Gary Gill 198

(4) Brain Hare & Adrienne Hare 157

Match 1

(3)Robert Barteau & Lauren Jaramillo 145

(4) Brain Hare & Adrienne Hare 153

Handicap Baker Championship Advancer Round Teams:

• Ed Christian & Wendy Christian

• Tom Thornhill & Jaime Trujillo

• Charles Vigil & Raymond Archuleta

• Jennifer Osegueda & Joseph Osegueda

• Brian Skidmore & Aimee Skidmore

• Fran Marie & Adrienne Hare

• Matt Vargas & Tom Garcia

• Jeremy Byington & Sammie Quillin

Handicap Baker Championship Stepladder:

Championship Match

(1) Brian Skidmore & Aimee Skidmore 187

(2) Charles Vigil & Raymond Archuleta 199 (Champions)

Match 2

(2) Charles Vigil & Raymond Archuleta 222

(4) Matt Vargas & Tom Garcia 155

Match 1

(3) Fran Marie & Adrienne Hare 196

(4) Matt Vargas & Tom Garcia 202

No events go without their hiccups.  I received a fair amount of complaints during our last tournament and it was fairly obvious to everyone that the wrong oil pattern was put out.  I confirmed with Santa Ana that due to a mix up, the house pattern was used for the tournament.

I am still quite certain that JD Nance was the best bowler on Sunday.  He was personally messaging me about finding places to practice during the week.  He put in the hard work and completely deserves the win.

Going forward, I have decided that I will be working more closely with venues to ensure the proper patterns are put out on tournament day.  I will be present myself during the oiling process for any future tournaments.  And since a lot of bowlers put a lot of work into preparing for this pattern, we will be using the pattern that was supposed to be used on Sunday for our next event.

We should be announcing that event very soon, so stay tuned!

Thank you so much for your understanding and for your patronage!  We look forward to bowling with you again!

• Jason