Johnny Petraglia Wins His First Senior Title of the Season and His 7th Senior Title Using the Brunswick Wild Ride Bowling Ball

After a record-breaking qualifying run, Brunswick Pro Staffer, Johnny Petraglia, won the PBA Senior Sun Bowl Tour in The Villages, Fla.

Petraglia used a Wild Ride throughout the tournament to win the championship match and the seventh Senior title of his career.

PBA Hall of Famer Johnny Petraglia of Jackson, N.J., won the PBA Senior Sun Bowl in The Villages at Spanish Springs Lanes for his first Senior Tour title of the season defeating fellow lefty Hugh Miller 278-225, it was Petraglia’s seventh Senior Title.

Even though the PBA failed to recognize the past accomplishments of Johnny Petraglia in their article, it is newsworthy to note that Petraglia has won 14 regular PBA Titles, including the prestigious PBA National Championship in 1980, bringing his total PBA Titles to 21, a mark achieved by only a hand full of players. Congratulations Johnny.

Petraglia set four scoring records (6 and 12-game qualifying pin-fall and 36-game pin-fall with and without bonus pins). He had a 13-5 match play record which earned him the top qualifying position for the stepladder finals.

“It’s very gratifying to bowl this well throughout the whole tournament and bring home a win,” the 62-year-old Petraglia said. “It would have been very disappointing to be the top qualifier and lose it all in one match.

It was in last year’s PBA Senior U.S. Open that Petraglia lead the entire tournament only to be denied the title because of the antiquated step ladder finals still used by the PBA.

Could you possibly image Phil Mickelson leading a 72 hole golf tournament by 10 strokes only to lose it on one playoff hole. Certainly exciting and nerve racking, but not a measure of the best golfer on the course that week. Oh well, if bowling keeps doing what it has been doing for the last 30 years we keep getting the same results, wait, that’s the problem we are. That’s another story.

2009 PBA SENIOR SUN BOWL IN THE VILLAGES
Spanish Springs Lanes, The Villages, Fla.
May 13, 2009
 
Final Standings
1, Johnny Petraglia, Jackson, N.J., 278 (one game), $8,000
2, Hugh Miller, Seattle, 452 (two games), $4,500
3, Kevin Croucher, Grants Pass, Ore., 444 (two games), $3,000
4, Roger Kossert, Lithia, Fla., 213 (one game), $2,500
 
Stepladder Results
Match One – Croucher def., Kossert, 224-213
Semifinal Match – Miller def. Croucher, 227-220
Championship – Petraglia def. Miller, 278-225
 
Round 5
(After 36 games, including match play record, total pins with bonus and money earned)
 
1, Johnny Petraglia, Jackson, N.J., 13-5, 9,395
2, Hugh Miller, Seattle, 13-4-1, 9,042
3, Roger Kossert, Lithia, Fla., 13-4-1, 9,000
4, Kevin Croucher, Grants Pass, Ore., 13-4-1, 8,788
5, Tom Baker, King, N.C., 13-5, 8,745, $2,000
6, Ron Mohr, Eagle River, Alaska, 13-4-1, 8,712, $1,750
7, Wayne Webb, Sacramento, Calif., 9-9, 8,687, $1,600
8, Mark Williams, Beaumont, Texas, 10-8, 8,676, $1,550
9, Mike Henry, Brunswick, Ohio, 8-8-2, 8,665, $1,500
10, Keith Glasgow, St. Petersburg, Fla., 8-9-1, 8,597, $1,450
11, John Shreve, Elyria, Ohio, 8-8-2, 8,580, $1,425
12, Dale Eagle, Tavares, Fla., 8-10, 8,557, $1,400
13, Dave Patchen, Oregon, Ohio, 9-9, 8,532, $1,375
14, Brian Voss, Alpharetta, Ga., 9-8-1, 8,475, $1,350
15, Rohn Morton, Vancouver, Wash., 6-11-1, 8,456, $1,325
16, Mike Pullin, Rochelle, Ill., 8-9-1, 8,405, $1,300
 
Round 4
(after 27 games, including match play record, total pins with bonus and money earned)
 
17, Bob Handley, Winter Park, Fla., 5-3-1, 6,314, $1,150
18, Jeff Schrum Cherryville, N.C., 4-5, 6,310, $1,140
19, Kerry Painter, Henderson, Nev., 4-5, 6,304, $1,130
20, Larry Graybeal, Elizabethton, Tenn., 5-4, 6,295, $1,120
21, Mike Dias, Lafayette, Colo., 5-4, 6,293, $1,110
22, Gerald Teel, The Villages, Fla., 3-5, 6,244, $1,100
23, Tim Kauble, Marion, Ohio, 5-4, 6,183, $1,095
24, Bobby Johnson, Chillicothe, Ohio, 4-5, 6,163, $1,090
25, (TIE) Donald Breihan, Columbia, S.C., 2-7, and Mitch Jabczenski, Novi, Mich., 4-5, 6,121, $1,082
27, Tommy Kress, Rochester, N.Y., 3-6, 6,118, $1,075
28, Barry Mefford, Aurora, Ill., 2-7, 6,111, $1070
29, Dennis Psaropoulos, Lake Worth, Fla., 3-6, 6,064, $1,065
30, (TIE) Pete Couture, Titusville, Fla., 3-6, and Ron Woods, Hudson, Fla., 1-8, 5,902, $1,057
32, Sal Bongiorno, Hollywood, Fla., 0-9, 5,819, $1,050

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categories Bowling News | | datetime June 8, 2009 7:40 am

5 Comments

  • By Mark __, April 30, 2009 @ 4:23 am

    Congratulations Johnny you desire it. These younger bowlers think they can bowl, let’s give them a go.

  • By Wayne W, June 13, 2009 @ 1:35 am

    Good story and kudos to Keith Spear and bowlingball.com. We need more people in our industry trying to do something good for the whole instead of just themselves. The industry is up in arms over the internet but with bowlingball.com we wouldn’t see the increase in high performance ball sales. The manufacturers don’t tell you that. Congrats Johnny P.

    Side note prediction: Bob Reid will be gone from Ebonite within 6 months. The only reason that I think this guy is still there is because the owners have bigger problems and because they are old money and have not noticed how Bob Reid’s internet retailer and predatory pricing policies have hurt Ebonite big time.

    Bowlingball.com made the Black Widow brand, I never heard of the ball until bowlingball.com told me about it, wasn’t in a pro shop anywhere. Same thing with the Cell, Roto on top, yeah, thanks to bowlingball.com. Storm made a great product but bowlingball.com brought it to the masses.

  • By Mike L, June 18, 2009 @ 2:38 am

    I could not agree more. Congratulations to Johnny Petraglia.
    The PBA and bowling in general is horrid. I have been bowling since the early 70′s and have watched as the ABC WIBC, now the USBC ran our sport straight into the ground. People still love to bowl, not just the way the USBC thinks they do.

  • By Randy D, June 21, 2009 @ 2:18 pm

    Johnny is a great player, too bad the PBA, the professional bowlers association has never taken off. The bowling industry has been in a straight line skid since the 1970′s. The PBA, the local bowling centers, ABC, WIBC, youth bowling especially the Saturday morning bowling, YABA, all now included in the USBC. I have been in business most of my life and own grocery stores in the New England area. I cannot help but notice how poorly the bowling business has been run and managed. I attended a bowling trade show just a few years back thinking of getting into the business. The antics of some idiot named Jeff Boje and most of the people in the industry convinced me to put my money in a mattress. Thanks, given the economy and what is yet to come from Barack Obama.

    Johnny you have my congratulations and my sympathy. You are one of the greatest in your sport and probably don’t live the life most sport celebrities live when they achieve the level that you have in your sport.

  • By Brad T, July 15, 2009 @ 7:07 pm

    I watched Johnny Petraglia bowl years and years ago. I was shocked to see that he was still bowling and still bowling very well. Congratulations Johnny.

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