* More than one thousand bowlers from across New Mexico will converge on Tenpins & More
for this month's slate of tournaments, starting with this Saturday's (March 6) New Mexico
High School State Championships. Twenty-eight schools from Las Cruces to Santa Fe, Farmington,
Gallup, Artesia and around the metro area will bowl qualifying and brackets from 8am until
6pm to decide state titlists in 1A-3A, 4A and 5A divisions. Sunday at 1pm, sixteen teams
represent their companies in the 9th annual Rio
Rancho Regional Chamber Bowlathon, expected
to raise more than $3,000.
The following two weekends, March 13/14, March 20/21, Tenpins & More
will play host to almost 700 women in the State Teams Championship; the first time the
event has visited Rio Rancho. Then, on Saturday March 27, youth bowlers from Albuquerque,
Rio Rancho and Bernalillo take part in their annual Bowler-of-the-Year finals. Add in spring
break bowlers and March is shaping up as one of the 26-year-old Center's busiest months
ever.
* Coaching helps. Just ask the top three place-getters in last Sunday's League Bowlers
Club "Beat-your-average" tournament at Tenpins & More. First place was a
tie between Keith Krueger and Yvonne Fox, both on +99 over five games, followed by Claude
Adams at +68. All three attended recent camps, conducted by Dana and Steve Mackie and Jan
Lee.
* Even an 828 three-game set by Mike Miller wasn't enough to win a roll-off at Bernalillo
last week in the big scratch team's league there. Miller's games of 279, 259, 290 contained
32 strikes, leaving only two 9-pins and two 10-pins during the evening. But, Guillermo
Espinosa did even better in the Men's City tournament at Silva Lanes, with a pair of 300's
and a 259 for 859. Espinosa had 34 strikes.
* Jonathan Lund won the strike pot, worth $173,
in Monday's Color Pin Cash event at Tenpins & More. There will be a new rule starting
this Monday to give even more bowlers a chance to bowl for the strike pot.
* Tenpins & More has free Wi-Fi available throughout the
bowling lanes and snack-bar areas since last weekend.
* Upcoming
calendar:
- Sat Mar 6: NMAA State High School Bowling Championships from 8am
- Sun Mar 7: 9th annual
Rio Rancho Regional Chamber Bowlathon at 1pm
- Sat-Sun Mar 13-14: NM
Women's State Teams Championships
- Mon-Fri Mar 15-19: Spring Break!
Early Openings & Morning Open Play Specials!
Here's the latest on what's been happening at our center in Rio Rancho:
