Jackie Adams Wins at Dual Lanes

Jackie Adams, the 2009 WNDA Bowler of the Year, has added another championship to her resume by outscoring 10-time tour winner Andrea Lanahan in the final match of the opening event at Dual Lanes. Adams posted a score of 154 to Lanahan's 122. This topped off a great weekend for Adams who was also inducted into the WNDA Hall of Fame on Saturday evening.

WNDA Duckpin Olympics Ladder at Dual Lanes in Hagerstown: (left to right) Jen DiStefano, Becky Sieck, Jackie Adams, Andrea Lanahan, Kendra Boswell.

It took a qualifying round score of 1083 or a pins-over-average of +71 to advance to Sunday's semi-finals. Last year's Hagerstown champion, Melissa Mahoney, barely missed qualifying with her score of 1079 and was the alternate.

Scores in the semi-final round were terrific with over half of the field averaging better than 140 for their five game head-to-head round. Jen DiStefano was the wild card (4-1,745) and faced off against Becky Sieck (4-1,716) in the first game. Sieck won the match and moved on to meet Kendra Boswell (4-1, 752) on the lanes. Both women bowled well but, in the end, Boswell demonstrated why she has 8 tour wins by taking the match 151-130. Boswell now had to bowl against Jackie Adams (5-0, 737). This was Adams' 5th ladder appearance in her last five tournaments. The match was close until Adams edged out Boswell 134-127. Adams went on to the final game against Andrea Lanahan (5-0, 784).

The WNDA's opening tournament drew a total of 76 entries, with four of the bowlers hailing from Canada. Local television station WHAG and the Hagerstown Herald-Mail sent representatives to cover the event. 

The official results in PDF format can be found at this link.