2024 New Year’s Day Tournament
2024 NEW YEAR’S DAY TOURNAMENT
The 10th annual Kingpin’s Alley New Year’s Day Tournament took place on Monday, January1, 2024. This year’s event featured a field of 91 bowlers. The tournament competitors bowled 8 games, moving pairs after each game.
We had three previous champions in the event this year. Steve Wagoner (2017), Jon Wilbur (2022) and defending champion, Matt Fazzone.
The tournament pattern this year was 2023 PBA Harry Smith. This is a 41’ long pattern with a 2.5:1 ratio and 31ml of oil. The scoring pace was lower than last year, and the bowlers had to work hard to strike. 25 of the bowlers were on the plus for the day.
John (JP) Harrell came away with the championship this year. JP started his day with a 196 game and didn’t shoot under 200 the rest of the day to take home the title by just 32 over Kingston’s John Ferraro. Harrell total 1837 pins for his 8 games while Ferraro had 1805. They were the only bowlers to top 1800.
The top 15 bowlers cashed
PLACE BOWLER SCORE AVERAGE PRIZE
1 John Harrell 1837 229.63 $2000
2 John Ferraro 1805 225.63 $1000
3 Jeremy Bonville 1785 223.13 $600
4 Nick Galusha 1736 217.00 $500
5 Zach Bogholtz 1725 215.63 $450
6 Andrew Hall 1713 214.13 $400
7 Chris Bruno 1707 213.38 $380
8 Jake Rivers 1690 211.25 $360
9 John Confalone 1689 211.13 $340
10 Eric Copping 1687 210.88 $320
11 Brandon Palladino 1685 210.63 $290
11 Connor LeClair 1685 210.63 $290
13 Nick Wells 1684 210.50 $265
14 Taylor LeClair 1683 210.38 $245
15 Josh Gitto 1680 210.00 $225
In addition to the high game pots, there were also 274 brackets. Back again this year was the optional 16 game doubles in which bowlers could pair up with any number of partners to combine their scores for a 16 game total. The entry fee for this was $50 per team. There were 78 teams this year with 10 teams making money. Below are the results of the doubles event.
TEAM BOWLER 1 SCORE BOWLER 2 SCORE TOTAL
John Ferraro / Nick Galusha 1805 1736 3541
Nick Wells / John Ferraro 1684 1805 3489
Dave Handlowich / John Ferraro 1679 1805 3484
Nick Galusha / Andrew Hall 1736 1713 3449
Connor LeClair / Nick Galusha 1685 1736 3421
Nick Wells / Nick Galusha 1684 1736 3420
Dave Handlowich / Nick Galusha 1679 1736 3415
Josh Gitto / Chris Bruno 1680 1707 3387
John Ferraro / Jon Wilbur 1805 1566 3371
BJ Rucinski / John Harrell 1532 1837 3369
Kingpin’s Alley says “Thank you” to all the bowlers who came out and bowled. We also thank the spectators who took the time to come to watch these great bowlers.
We also extend our appreciation to our great staff and the volunteers including “Dangerous”Dan and Maryanne.
John (JP) Harrell is holding his championship trophy and ceremonial prize check after he won the 2024 New Year’s Day Tournament. KPA Proprietor, Doug Bohannon pictured on the right presenting JP’s awards.