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The Reno League's six game matchplay open made its debut Saturday to an unexpectedly large turn out. The tournament featured six games of matchplay competition with a position round in the sixth and final game. Tournament officials expected a modest turn out of roughly 24 bowlers for the first tournament of this kind for the league. With 18 bowlers pre-registered as of 2:00 p.m. Saturday, it appeared the tournament would reach its expected field of at least 24 bowlers. What followed was an unexpected rush of 34 walk in entries increasing the tournament field to 52 bowlers. A flood of entrants began arriving about 40 minutes into check in. Additional lanes had to be requested to fill the demand.

Brackets - 1st Jeremy Carter, Ryan Harris, Steve
Walker.
2nd - Chris Alvarez, Ryan Harris

High Game Sidepots
Game 1 - Steve Walker 2nd Jeremy Carter
Game 2 - Rich Melliar 2nd Michael Biro/Ryan B.
Game 3 - Jeremy Carter 2nd Mike Maldonado

High Series Sidepot
Men - Jeremy Carter 746 2nd Mike Maldonado 703
Women - Marie Baron 582

Jeffrey Leonard reached perfection Sunday night rolling twelve strikes in game one to record his first 300 game. After stringing the front eleven strikes, Leonard stepped up and stroked one of his best shots of the night sending all ten pins in the pit. He finished his three game set with games of 300-219-196 in route to a 715 series.

Mike Flynn compiled 1414 total pins and a 5-1 matchplay record in route to winning the inaugural six game Match Play Open Saturday. Flynn tallied 1264 pins through six games with 150 bonus points to best the field of 52 bowlers. Flynn's victory qualifies him for the Tournament of Champions on April 17th. The tournament featured six games with each bowler facing a different opponent each game. A 25 pin handicap maximum was imposed with 30 bonus points awarded to the winner of each match.

Alex Adams rolled games of 300-225-228 Sunday night. It is the third straight Sunday with a 300 game in the Rock N Roll to Reno League. Andrew Granite rolled a perfect game on February 7th, and Jeffrey Leonard rolled a perfect game on February 14th. Adam's 300 game breaks the record for most 300 games in a league season.

The Reno League's Matchplay Open returns to Fireside Lanes at 1:00 p.m. on March 6th. The inaugural Matchplay Open took place on February 20th and proved to be a huge success. 52 bowlers entered the tournament making it the largest tournament field to date. Tournament staff have been diligently working to improve the flow of the tournament. Initial testing of added tournament software has provided promising results. The software will track bowler lane assignments each game, pre-print recap sheets for each game, and track bonus pins. Score keepers are being assigned the task of recording scores after each game and new automated features will allow tournament staff to keep up to the minute game by game statistics. The tournament is open to all USBC members.