Suffice to say, professional bowler Dave Traber must like the lanes at The Fast Lanes Family Entertainment Center in Chillicothe.
Never out of the top 20 in the first four years of the PBA Pepsi Fast Lane Open event on the Professional Bowlers’ Association’s Midwest Region Tour and champion in 2007 (as well as runnerup last year), on Sunday he emphasized his comfort here.
Fourth after the first day, he racked up a day-high 2,458 points (2,308 pins plus 150 bonus points for winning five of his 10 games) to overtake Ricky Beck down the stretch and become the tournament’s first two-time champion with a final county of 4,496.
Traber briefly moved atop the standings early in Sunday’s round-robin finals, slid back to third, took over second just past the mid-point, and tracked down Beck with a win with a 263 in the eighth game.
Traber wobbled in the penultimate game, rolling only a 205, but most of the other leaders also had a hiccup there. Heading into the final game, the Hebron, Ill., resident led PBA Hall of Fame member Pete Weber by a scant 17 points with Beck lurking 34 points back.
With the heat of the Hall of Famer on his neck, Traber shrugged it and the previous game’s struggles off and fired shot after shot into the heart of the pocket.
When the final pins had fallen and the totals compared, Traber’s closing 276 had won him the game and, although Beck closed splendidly also with a game-winning 279, wrapped up the title by 31 pins.
Traber’s winning total reflected an 18-game average of 241.4 pins per game (subtracting the 150 bonus points he received for the five winning lines Sunday.
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Suffice to say, professional bowler Dave Traber must like the lanes at The Fast Lanes Family Entertainment Center in Chillicothe.
Never out of the top 20 in the first four years of the PBA Pepsi Fast Lane Open event on the Professional Bowlers’ Association’s Midwest Region Tour and champion in 2007 (as well as runnerup last year), on Sunday he emphasized his comfort here.
Fourth after the first day, he racked up a day-high 2,458 points (2,308 pins plus 150 bonus points for winning five of his 10 games) to overtake Ricky Beck down the stretch and become the tournament’s first two-time champion with a final county of 4,496.
Traber briefly moved atop the standings early in Sunday’s round-robin finals, slid back to third, took over second just past the mid-point, and tracked down Beck with a win with a 263 in the eighth game.
Traber wobbled in the penultimate game, rolling only a 205, but most of the other leaders also had a hiccup there. Heading into the final game, the Hebron, Ill., resident led PBA Hall of Fame member Pete Weber by a scant 17 points with Beck lurking 34 points back.
With the heat of the Hall of Famer on his neck, Traber shrugged it and the previous game’s struggles off and fired shot after shot into the heart of the pocket.
When the final pins had fallen and the totals compared, Traber’s closing 276 had won him the game and, although Beck closed splendidly also with a game-winning 279, wrapped up the title by 31 pins.
Traber’s winning total reflected an 18-game average of 241.4 pins per game (subtracting the 150 bonus points he received for the five winning lines Sunday.
