{"id":3019,"date":"2018-05-13T19:24:11","date_gmt":"2018-05-13T19:24:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sportspaper.org\/?p=3019"},"modified":"2018-05-13T19:24:11","modified_gmt":"2018-05-13T19:24:11","slug":"curtis-messer-sr-and-bill-vangordon-win-final-ksbo-tournaments-of-the-bowling-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.sportspaper.org\/?p=3019","title":{"rendered":"Curtis Messer Sr. and Bill VanGordon win final KSBO tournaments of the bowling season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The final pins fell on Kitsap Scratch Bowlers Organization\u2019s 45<sup>th<\/sup> season and it was Curtis Messer Sr. who knocked down the most, winning his fifth KSBO title at the James &amp; Associates Open held at Laurel Lanes in Port Angeles.<\/p>\n<p>Messer held the lead after the first six games of qualifying, fell behind Warren Cox going into the TV finals and then defeated Mike Hansen 212-175 and Cox 246-163 in the championship match.<\/p>\n<p>Bill VanGordon\u00a0 moved into the lead in the semifinals of the John\u2019s Classic Auto 2015-and-under Division and held on to win his first KSBO title by beating Bob Zurbrugg in the final match, 193-175.<\/p>\n<p>The KSBO now takes the summer off before beginning its 46h season this fall.<\/p>\n<p>Alison Eoff, secretary of the KSBO, said, \u201cI would like to thank the following people who have worked very hard to make this the best organization around:\u00a0\u00a0Jamie Watson \u2013 President, Leo Funari \u2013 Vice-President, Nick Bachteler \u2013 Sergeant-at-Arms, and our board of directors \u2013 Don Allen, Bernie Boyd, Tim Clemens, Mike Green, Stu McMaster, Milt Meeds, Lonnie Sharkey and our helpers Noelle Watson and Larry Strege.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The final pins fell on Kitsap Scratch Bowlers Organization\u2019s 45th season and it was Curtis Messer Sr. who knocked down&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-3019","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sportspaper.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3019","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=3019"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.sportspaper.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3019\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3020,"href":"http:\/\/www.sportspaper.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3019\/revisions\/3020"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sportspaper.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sportspaper.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sportspaper.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}