Baker Doubles

Results

The 2023 Baker Doubles Tournament had a field of 47 teams. Teams bowled 8 baker games during qualifying with the top 8 teams advancing to the round robin match play.

When the qualifying was done the 8 teams that advanced were:

PLACE	TEAM	GAMES	AVERAGE	TOTAL PINS	PLUS/MINUS
1	RJ Martinez / Brandon Boyer	8	237.88	1903	+303
2	Steve Wagoner / Ryan Shafer	8	233.88	1871	+271
3	Roy Vanderbogart / Justin Barcomb	8	233.50	1868	+268
4	Andrew Hall / AJ Villa	8	228.63	1829	+229
5	EJ O’Melia / Ed Pietrasz	8	228.25	1826	+226
6	Tim Steria / Robert Mushtare	8	227.88	1823	+223
7	Nick Fuller / Sean Burnham	8	227.38	1819	+219
8	Ken Companion / Billy Wigand	8	225.75	1806	+206

 

There was a shuffling of teams throughout the qualifying.  Fuller / Burnham led 3 of the 8 games and at one point looked to be running away with it.  But as is the case in this type of event, the changing lane conditions came into play, and they eventually ended up qualifying 7^th.  Defending champs Roy Vanderbogart and Justin Barcomb took the top spot at one point before they settled in 3^rd.  Steve Wagoner and his partner, Ryan Shafer briefly grabbed the lead but were overtaken by RJ Martinez and Brandon Boyer.  Martinez and Boyer popped off 1025 for the last four games to lead qualifying by 32 pins.

Match play was 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.  There wasn’t a whole lot of movement, at least on the bottom but the position round game had implications as to who would win.  In the end Martinez and Boyer struck in the 9^th and 10^th frames to end with a 205.  They didn’t win the game but it was enough to claim the title by 37 sticks.

Here then are the final standings after match play:

PLACE	TEAM	MATCH PLAY	+/-	PRIZE
1	RJ Martinez / Brandon Boyer	5-3	+574	$2500
2	EJ O’Melia / Ed Pietrasz	5-3	+537	$1300
3	Steve Wagoner / Ryan Shafer	5-3	+526	$1100
4	Nick Fuller / Sean Burnham	6-2	+398	$1000
5	Roy Vanderbogart / Justin Barcomb	3-5	+378	$800
6	Tim Steria / Robert Mushtare	3-5	+352	$600
7	Andrew Hall / AJ Villa	2-6	+304	$500
8	Ken Companion / Billy Wigand	3-5	+133	$425

 

Last year Zac Gentile finished second in this event with partner Nick Wells.

This year we bowled on a 43’ pattern (2021 SYC Iowa Medium) with a 4.17:1 ratio.

Entries were up this year.  As always at Kingpin’s Alley, we paid out our guarantees.