Professional Bowlers Association

Dave D'Entremont was not to be denied both the Choice Hotels Classic for his third PBA title, and one-game"Winning Never Gets Old" Challenge at Don Carter's All Star Lanes in Sunrise, Fla. Leading qualifier D'Entremont,Middleburg Hts., Ohio, posted a 242-214 championship game win against local favorite Tommy Evans, which wasworth the $45,000 first prize. He then outstruck PBA Senior Tour point representative Gene Stus, 268-245, for the$25,000 winner-take-all Challenge stakes in the final game.

D'Entremont started the title game with a triple, but opened in his fourth frame to temporarily hand the lead to Evans, who simply couldn't match D'Entremont's striking power the rest of the way and had to settle for the $23,000 runnerup check.

Evans, already a back-to-back champ in the PBA's first two senior tournaments of 1995, appeared headed for a clean sweep of both the tournament and Challenge crowns, much to the emotional enjoyment of his hometown fans. But D'Entremont gained the tournament lead on the final day of match play and held off all charges to wrest the title from him.

I In the Challenge match, both players matched strikes through four frames before Stus finally blinked in the fifthand D'Entremont's opening string stretched for two more strikes. After sparing in the seventh, D'Entremontadded a three-bagger and coasted home.

The ABC Sports telecast began with the Senior Tour point leaden' showdown between Stus and John Handegard, with the 1992 Senior Player of the Year bettering '91 PBA Senior Player of the Year Handegard of Las Vegas, 236-272. Stus took home a $7,500 check as the top senior finisher among the five qualifiers invited by Choice, and Handegard made $5,000.

In the second game Evans took the lanes and sidelined Dave Ferraro of Kingston, N.Y., 223-177, with the 1992 PBA Player of the Year taking home a $13,000 third-place payday.

Prior to airtime, five preliminary games were contested among senior point qualifiers two, three, four and five, plus tournament seeds three, tour and flue. Evans opened his potential "double dip" day by pounding Ron Winger of Tarzana, Calif., 224-167, and then fell to Gary Dickinson, 225-193. The reigning PBA Senior Player of the Year then was defeated by Handegard in near-parted fashion, 278-231, to pair Handegard on air against nemesis Stus. Dickinson, Edmond, Okla., Evans and Winger all earned $2,500.

Ferraro then defeated good friend and two-time PBA Player of the Year Amleto Monacelli, 262-179 and first-time finalist Dennis Rakauskas, 269-236, before cooling off when the network television lights came on. Ferraro, Kingston, N.Y., ultimately earned $13,000 as the tournament's third-place finisher, Rakauskas, Longwood, Fla., collected $9,000 for fourth playa and Monacelli, Venezuela, earned $7,500.

CHAMPIONSHIP ROUND

PLAYOFF RESULTS--Ferraro defeated Monacelli, 262-179; Ferraro defeated Rakauskas, 269-236: Evans defeated Ferraro, 223-177; and in the championship game, D'Entremont defeated Evans, 242-214. WINNING NEVER GETS OLD CHALLENGE MATCH-D'Entremont defeated Gene Stus, 268-245, for $25,000.

42-GAME TOTALS

		Name, City		Pins		Avg		WLT		+		Tot		Amt
1		Dave D'Entremont, Middleburg Hts., OH		9501		226.2		18-5-1		555		10056
2		Tommy Evans, Sunrise, FL		9554		227.5		16-8-0		480		10034
3		Dennis Rakauskas, Longwood, FL		9364		222.9		19-3-2		600		9964
4		Dave Ferraro, Kingston, NY		9489		225.9		13-10-1		405		9894
5		Am late Monacelli, Venezuela		9475		225.6		13-11-0		390		9865
6		Rick Steelsmith, Wichita, KS		9387		223.5		13-11-0		390		9777		$6,000
7		Bob Benoit, Topeka, KS		9236		219.9		17-7-0		510		9746		5,000
8		Walter Ray Williams Jr., Stockton, CA		9325		222.1		14-10-0		420		9745		4,500
9		Mike Miller, Albuquerque, NM		9422		224.3		10-13-1		315		9737		4,000
10		Dave Covington, Lake Wales, FL		9274		220.8		11-12-7		345		9619		3,600
11		Wayne Webb, Canandaigua, NY		9230		219.7		12-12-0		360		9590		3,300
12		Bob Learn Jr., Erie, PA		9295		221.3		9-15-0		270		9565		3,000
13		Dave Arnold, Gilbert, AZ		9129		217.4		14-10-0		420		9549		2,800
14		Dave Wodka, Las Vegas		9136		217.5		12-12-0		360		9496		2,600
15		Bob Spaulding, Greenville, SC		9176		218.5		9-74-1		285		9461		2,400
16		George Branham III, Indianapolis		9136		217.5		10-14-0		300		9436		2,300
#17		Don Mosey, San Jose, CA		9016		214.7		13-10-1		405		9421		2,200
18		Tony Brown, Boca Raton, FL		9024		214.9		11-13-0		330		9354		2,100
19		Brian Eaton, Buffalo, NY		9026		214.9		9-13-2		300		9326		2,000
20		Del Ballard Jr., Richardson, TX		9092		216.5		6-16-2		210		9302		1,900
#21		Marshall Holman, Medford, OR		8917		212.3		11-13-0		330		9247		1,800
22		Chris Warren, Dallas		8848		210.7		9-15-0		270		9118		1,700
23		David Ozio, Vidor, TX		8927		212.5		6-18-0		180		9107		1,650
24		Jimmy Johnson, Columbus, OH		8846		210.6		7-17-0		210		9056		1,600

Pos.		Name, City/State	Amount
25		Pete Weber, St. Ann, MO	$1,360
26		Norm Duke, Edmond, OK	1,303
		Doug Kent, Canandaigua, NY	1,303
		Tim Weisbrod, Cincinnati	1,303
29		Mark Williams, Beaumont, TX	1,200
*30		Bryon Smith, Winchester, OR	1,390
#31		Eric Forkel, Chatsworth, CA	1,260
32		Ron Palombi Jr., Erie, PA	1,250
33		Curtis Odom, Winston-Salem, NC	1,240
#34		David Traber, Woodstock, IL	1,230
35		David Carter, Glen Mills, PA	1,220
36		Jess Stayrook, Tempe, AZ	1,270
37		Scoff Alexander, Seattle	1,200
#38		Guppy Troup, Taylorsville, NC	1,190
#39		Mark Mosayebi, Charlotte, NC	1,180
40		Doug Wallace, Portland, OR	1,170
41		Greg Kemp, Bryan, TX	1,160
42		Mike Aulby, Indianapolis	1,150
#43		Craig Auerbach, Miami	1,135
		Brian Himmler, Cincinnati	1,135
45		Marty Trendel, Elgin, IL	1,120
46		Mike Taylor, San Diego	1,110
47		Bill Swanson, Palatine, IL	1,100
48		John Handegard, Las Vegas	1,085
		Brett Sterley, Springfield, MO	1,085
50		Steven Sonnen, Oak Creek, WI	1,070
#51		Stoney Baker, Alpharetta, GA	1,055
		Tommy Delutz Jr., Jamaica, NV	1,055
53		Joe Firpo, Lake Worth, FL	1,035
		Michael Luft, Brook Park, OH	1,035
55		Steve Wilson, Tamarac, FL	1,020
56		Adam Colton, Coral Springs, FL	1,010
57		Gary Dickinson, Edmond, OK	1,005