{"id":2498,"date":"2016-10-29T02:02:58","date_gmt":"2016-10-29T02:02:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sportspaper.org\/?p=2498"},"modified":"2016-10-29T02:02:58","modified_gmt":"2016-10-29T02:02:58","slug":"irwin-holds-off-ellis-to-claim-his-first-ksbo-title","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.sportspaper.org\/?p=2498","title":{"rendered":"Irwin holds off Ellis to claim his first KSBO title"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Brian Irwin had to hold off a hard-charging Jeremy Ellis to notch his first Kitsap Scratch Bowlers Association title when he stopped Ellis in the championship \u00a0match of the A&amp;C Sports Bar Open, 184-161 at All Star Lanes in Silverdale.<\/p>\n<p>Ellis qualified fifth and then got on a roll. He defeated Matt Surina 246-213, Mike Hansen 244-176 and Tom Jamrog 224-143, averaging 2238 in the three games. But he ran out of steam against Irwin, who bowled 278, 256, 238, 227, 268 in qualifying games for a five-game total of 1267, which is 12<sup>th<\/sup> all-time for qualifying scores in KSB competition. That averages out to a 253.4.<\/p>\n<p>In the George Shafer 205-and-Under Division, Tyler Hogstrom earned his first KSBO title by stopping Josh Alewine 178-163 in the championship match.<\/p>\n<p>The next KSBO Tournament is set for Nov. 5 at Laurel Lanes in Port Angeles. It is the Longhouse Market &amp; Deli open and the 205-and-Under Division is sponsored by Lakeside Industries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Brian Irwin had to hold off a hard-charging Jeremy Ellis to notch his first Kitsap Scratch Bowlers Association title&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sportspaper.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2498","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sportspaper.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sportspaper.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sportspaper.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sportspaper.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2498"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.sportspaper.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2498\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2499,"href":"http:\/\/www.sportspaper.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2498\/revisions\/2499"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sportspaper.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sportspaper.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sportspaper.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}