BTBA Archive: Keddie & Johanssen win Tenpintour 2023 Stop 4 at Airport

Alan Keddie wins his fifth and Julie Johansson her second Tenpintour Titles at the Airport

72 men and 24 women travelled to The Airport Bowl, Harlington to compete in Stop 4 of the 2023 BTBA Tenpint.  With some skilled and high scoring it was Alan Keddie who would emerge winner for the men and Julie Johnssen winner for the women.

Men: Leading the ‘dizzying’ scoring for the men, Alan bowled games of 257, 265, 236, 290, 248 and 269 for has 1565 scratch / 1619 handicap / 269.8 avg. totals.  The 290 game 4 was also the highest men’s game as well as the highest game for the stop.  The men’s scoreboard is once again ‘lit up’ with honour scores, and a growing number of ‘super-honour scores’ above 249.  2nd place saw Chris Smith with 1283 scratch / 1583 h’cap / 261 avg. and 3rd place Ray Lay with 1256 / 1508 / 214 avg.  The top-12 male athletes all posted honour score averages for their sets and a total 26 of the men also posed 200+ averages.

Women: Julie Johansson led the women with games of 213 and 234 in her hard-won 1163 / 1349 / 194 avg. winning score, over Val Hopcraft 2nd with 1072 / 1270 / 179 avg. and Sally Spence 3rd with 1134 / 1270 / 189 avg.  Liz Griffin bowled the women’s high game coming out the gate with a 235 game 1 in her 1080 / 1260 / 180 avg. set which saw her in 4th.  12 athletes all posted totals of 1200 or above.

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Women’s Scores

Men’s Scores A

Men’s Scores B

Men’s Scores C

 


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