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PBA Doubles Show Features Seven Non-Champions

PBA Doubles Show Features Seven Non-Champions

With seven players in the finals who have never won a PBA Tour title, bowling fans will see some new faces in the PBA Doubles Championship.

Jan 17, 2019 by Lucas Wiseman
PBA Doubles Show Features Seven Non-Champions

With seven players in the finals who have never won a PBA Tour title, bowling fans will see some new faces Sunday in the stepladder finals of the Mark Roth-Marshall Holman PBA Doubles Championship.

The finals feature the top five teams battling in a traditional stepladder using the Baker system with two players alternating frames to complete a full game. The show will air on FS1 at 1 p.m. Eastern on Sunday for U.S. audiences. International viewers can watch on FloBowling and archives will be on FloBowling seven days after the show airs.

Good friends Kyle Sherman and Brad Miller earned the top seed for the stepladder and will need to win just one match to earn their first career titles. It’s no fluke the two made it to the top seed, going 9-3 in matches, including a 6-0 final round record, to get there.

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The No. 2 and No. 3 seeds also feature doubles pairs that are looking to win their first career titles. Anthony Lavery-Spahr and Sam Cooley earned the second seed, while Patrick Girard and Zacharay Wilkins are the third seed.

Girard also made the show at the PBA Oklahoma Open where he lost in the semifinal match to Jesper Svensson, 239-218.

The only three players in the PBA Doubles Championship finals who do have PBA Tour titles will face off in the opening match of the stepladder.

Defending champions Jason Belmonte and Bill O’Neill are back again and earned the No. 4 seed. Meanwhile, Sean Rash is paired with non-champion Matt Ogle in the fifth spot.

With one game remaining in match play, Rash and Ogle were on the outside looking in but put together a huge 279 finish in the position round match to move from seventh place into the show in fifth.

The PBA Doubles Championship show is taped and was recorded after the PBA Oklahoma Open aired live last Sunday.