Baker Doubles

Results

The 2024 Baker Doubles Tournament had a field of 56 teams. Teams bowled 8 baker games during qualifying with the top 10 teams advancing to the round robin match play.
The pattern this year was not overly tough but only 21 of the 56 teams managed to finish on the plus side.
When the qualifying was done the 10 teams that advanced were:

Qualifying saw a couple of teams come out of the gate striking. The LeClair brother opened with a 266, George Gorham II and his partner, Devan Hodlik had a 265 while EJ O’Melia & Eddie Piestraz came out with a 258. Throughout the 8 qualifying games, there was movement up and down by several teams. The squad leader changed almost every game. It took some big games at the end to settle the top 10. Connor and Taylor LeClair shot 752 with a 298 in the last three games to lead qualifying. Wayne Stewart and Eric Copping finished with a three-game set of 794 including a 300 game to lock up second place. Defending champions, Brandon Boyer and RJ Martinez snuck into the last stop by 11 pins. RJ was convinced they missed the cut and put his gear in the car and prepared to leave.
Match play was 10 games of round robin. All ten teams bowled each other one time and then a final position round tenth game. Teams were awarded 30 pins for a win and 15 pins each for a tie. Pins from qualifying carried over to this round.
Jon Wilbur and Bill Webb went 8-2 in match play to jump from 5th to the championship. They took home $2600 for the win and they also received the championship belts.

Here then are the final standings after match play:

This year we bowled on a 41’ pattern (2021 SYC Myrtle Beach Finals) with a 4.89:1 ratio.

Entries were 47 last year and 56 this year. As always at Kingpin’s Alley, we paid out our guarantees.