The 2025 Baker Doubles Tournament took place on Sunday, October 19, 2025. This was the 12th year of this event.
2025 Tournament flyer
Kingpin’s Alley proprietor, Doug Bohannon (L) stands with the 2025 Baker Doubles champions Tom Reed (center) and Michael Obernesser (R).as they are presented their $2500 check for winning the event. In addition to the check, Tom and Michael also took home the coveted championship belts.
2025 Kingpin’s Alley
Baker Doubles Tournament
The 2025 Baker Doubles Tournament had a field of 45 teams. Teams bowled 8 baker games during qualifying with the top 8 teams advancing to the round robin match play.
The pattern this year was custom made by Tom Hankey at Kegel. It was a challenging pattern that saw 16 of the 45 teams on the plus and not one team had every game over 200.
When the qualifying was done the 8 teams that advanced were:
|
PLACE |
TEAM |
GAMES |
AVERAGE |
TOTAL PINS |
PLUS/MINUS |
|
1 |
Zac Gentile / John Ferraro |
8 |
220.38 |
1763 |
+163 |
|
2 |
Ryan Karabin / Josh Gitto |
8 |
218.13 |
1745 |
+145 |
|
3 |
Steve Wagoner / Howie Ayres |
8 |
218.00 |
1744 |
+144 |
|
4 |
Andrew Hall / Ryan Graywacz |
8 |
216.75 |
1734 |
+134 |
|
5 |
Tom Reed / Michael Obernesser |
8 |
216.38 |
1731 |
+131 |
|
6 |
David Squires / Billy McGaffin |
8 |
215.88 |
1727 |
+127 |
|
7 |
Clay Adams / Nick Perrone |
8 |
215.38 |
1723 |
+123 |
|
8 |
Connor Leclair / Taylor Leclair |
8 |
212.50 |
1700 |
+100 |
During qualifying, the team of Brady Jennings & Sean Burnham held the leader spot or second place for the first 4 games before they faded and finished in 10th place.
Compared to last year, the scoring pace was lower this time around. The high game on the day was 279 by the aforementioned Jennings and Burnham team.
Zac Gentile and John Ferraro were steady all day. They topped 200 their first six games before a slight fall off in games 7 and 8. They still had enough to lead qualifying, however.
There were a few former champions in the field this year. Last year’s champs, Jon Wilbur and Bill Webb finished in 12th place. Brandon Boyer and RJ Martinez, who won two years ago, finished in 22nd place.
Match play was 8 games of round robin. All eight teams bowled each other one time and then a final position round eighth game. Teams were awarded 30 pins for a win and 15 pins each for a tie. Pins from qualifying carried over to this round.
Tom Reed and Michael Obernesser went 6-2 in match play to go from 5th to the title. This was the first win for this team but, it was Tom Reed’s second win overall. He teamed up with Travis Winglowski back in the 2014 edition of this event for the win. Tom thus becomes the first two-time champ.
Here then are the final standings after match play:
|
PLACE |
TEAM |
MATCH PLAY |
+/- |
PRIZE |
|
1 |
Tom Reed / Michael Obernesser |
6-2 |
+526 |
$2500 |
|
2 |
Steve Wagoner / Howie Ayres |
5-3 |
+386 |
$1250 |
|
3 |
Andrew Hall / Ryan Graywacz |
3-5 |
+357 |
$1000 |
|
4 |
Clay Adams / Nick Perrone |
5-3 |
+354 |
$900 |
|
5 |
Zac Gentile / John Ferraro |
4-4 |
+311 |
$700 |
|
6 |
David Squires / Billy McGaffin |
5-3 |
+275 |
$600 |
|
7 |
Ryan Karabin / Josh Gitto |
3-5 |
+266 |
$500 |
|
8 |
Connor Leclair / Taylor Leclair |
1-7 |
+30 |
$430 |
This year we bowled on a 44’ pattern that was designed by Tom Hankey at Kegel specifically for this tournament. We used Current oil on the forward pass and Ice on the reverse. Total volume was 34.05ml and the ratio was 3.55:1
As always at Kingpin’s Alley, we paid out our guarantees.
2025: Tom Reed & Michael Obernesser
2024: Jon Wilbur & Bill Webb
2023: Brandon Boyer & RJ Martinez
2022: Roy Vanderbogart & Justin Barcomb
2021: Zac Gentile & Mike Colby
2020: Ryan Galli & Phil Drumm
2019: Chun Bae & Scott Kampf
2018: Richard & Rebekah VanScoyk
2017: Nick Miseno / Steve Wagoner
2016: Nick Galusha / Matt Sherman
2015: Steve Rock / Ricky Fredette
2014: Tom Reed / Travis Winglowski