CENTREVILLE, Va. – Denmark’s Carsten Hansen doesn’t compete often on the PBA Tour, but he was able to take advantage of his opportunity to win the 2020 PBA Scorpion Championship.

Hansen defeated BJ Moore, 216-193, at Bowlero Centreville to claim his second career PBA Tour title in a show that aired Monday night.

Hansen, who got his first PBA Tour title at the 2019 Lucky Larsen Masters, took the lead after three frames and held on the rest of the way.

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By the time the final frame came around, Hansen needed just a mark and eight pins to secure the win. That final frame was an adventure, however.

Battling nerves, Hansen pitched the ball wide right and was fortunate to leave the 1-2 on his first shot. He was able to convert the spare and then left an eight pin on the fill for the shutout.

Poor shot-making doomed Moore’s chances down the stretch. In the seventh frame, he left the 1-2 and followed it up in the eighth by leaving the 1-5-7 combination.

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In a bit of a strange semifinal match, Moore overcame a 35-pin deficit to come away with a big 255-213 win over Darren Tang.

Tang started with a spare and strung four strikes together in a row but then the wheels came off. Tang missed the 6-10 not once but twice in the fifth and seventh frames. Moore got it going down the stretch, striking from the fourth frame on to lock up the win.

Although he trailed by a pin at the halfway point, Tang was able to defeat Jakob Butturff by a wide margin, 214-160, in the opening stepladder match.

Butturff collapsed down the stretch, leaving and missing the 3-9 spare in the sixth and the 4-7-8 spare in the eighth. Tang, meanwhile, tossed a double in the seventh and eighth frames to take advantage and pull away.

In the seeding round to kick off the show, Hansen outdueled the other players to earn the top seed with a 224 game, while Butturff earned the fourth seed with 191. Moore and Tang tied for second with 217, but Moore got the third seed with a 10-8 rolloff win.