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APRIL 4, 2024 NOLAN HUGHES
Top 16 doubles teams advance to round-robin match play
Patrick Dombrowski, coming off a second-place finish in last week’s USBC Masters, continues to excel on the lanes. Dombrowski and Trevor Roberts lead the Roth/Holman PBA Doubles Championship with a combined score of (+727) through 20 combined games.
The 54-team field bowled two five-game qualifying rounds Thursday at Thunderbowl Lanes in Allen Park, Mich. The first round was contested on the 38-foot Holman pattern, while the 42-foot Roth pattern was used for the evening round.
The teams of Anthony Simonen and Dom Barrett, Mathias Ankerdal and Tim Stampe, Andrew Anderson and Kris Prather, and Pete Vergos and Ethan Fiore round out the top five heading into Friday’s round-robin match play.
The advancing teams will bowl 16 baker games of round-robin match play with the Roth pattern on the left lane and Holman pattern on the right lane.
Match play rounds will begin at 10 a.m. and 6 p.m. Eastern on Friday, livestreaming on BowlTV. https://www.instagram.com/p/C5XLB8jOBgf/embed/captioned/?cr=1&v=14&wp=810&rd=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.pba.com&rp=%2F2024%2Fapril%2Fdombrowski-roberts-lead-rothholman-pba-doubles-championship-match-play#%7B%22ci%22%3A0%2C%22os%22%3A383.30000001192093%2C%22ls%22%3A201.60000002384186%2C%22le%22%3A219.9000000357628%7D
Dombrowski and Roberts, Ohio and Florida natives, respectively, decided to bowl together after the PBA Regional Players Invitational this January (which Dombrowski won for the second straight year.)
“At first, I thought I had a really good partner,” Roberts said. “Then we bowled the U.S. Open, and I thought, ‘I guess he has a really good partner,’ because I bowled really well. (Roberts finished eighth.) Now I’m just glad that I was able to bowl well enough to complement his +461.”
Dombrowski led all players with an individual total of 2,461 (+461). While Roberts said this is his first time leading a PBA Tour event, this is not Dombrowski’s first rodeo.
Fifteen years ago, he led the opening round of the 2009 PBA Viper Championship, also held at Thunderbowl as part of the first-ever World Series of Bowling.
Roberts said he anticipates bowling on the shorter Holman pattern during the dual-pattern baker round-robin match play.
“I feel good with urethane in my hands and then when I get to the reactive, I have that defined friction spot to the right that I can throw the ball into,” Roberts said.
The star-studded team of Simonsen and Barrett sit just three pins behind the leaders. While the duo struggled in the event’s opening game, shooting 197 and 211, respectively, they remained wholly confident in their ability to rebound.
“We’re both guys who will try literally anything,” Simonsen said. “If it’s not working, we’re going to find a spot where it will work.”
“Communication has been really good,” Barrett added. “When we get to a fresh pair, whoever is lead-off is passing on good information. We both know what a bad shot is and what a good shot is so the reads are pretty true and that definitely helps.”
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Match Play Advancers
- Trevor Roberts and Patrick Dombrowski, +727
- Anthony Simonsen and Dom Barrett, +724
- Mathias Ankerdal and Tim Stampe, +713
- Andrew Anderson and Kris Prather, +671
- Pete Vergos and Ethan Fiore, +633
- Jason Sterner and Tom Smallwood, +631
- Bill O’Neill and Jason Belmonte, +619
- Zac Tackett and Justin Knowles, +594
- Jesper Svensson and Kyle Troup, +588
- Mitch Hupé and Packy Hanrahan, +579
- Eric Jones and Deo Benard, +574
- Cody Shoemaker and JR Raymond, +573
- Tom Daugherty and BJ Moore, +561
- François Lavoie and Stu Williams, +554
- Zeke Bayt and Dick Allen, +547
- Nathan Ruest-Lajoie and Zach Wilkins, +521
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