May 13, 2020 spopp

Over 50 Elite Eligible Players Available To Fill 26 Spots On 10 Teams Across The Country Including 2 All New Expansion Teams

Virtual Draft To Be Remotely Produced By FloSports For Broadcast on FloBowling; Coverage Begins At 7:00 PM Eastern

AUSTIN, Texas (May 10, 2020) – FloSports, the innovator in live sports streaming and original content, will stream the Professional Bowlers Association ‘2020 PBA League’ draft powered by BowlerX live on May 17. Due to COVID-19, the draft will be remotely produced by FloSports with managers making selections for their teams from their home locations. In total, over 50 elite draft-eligible professional bowlers will be available to fill 26 spots on 10 teams located across the country, including two all-new expansion teams. Coverage begins at 7:00 PM Eastern on FloBowling.

The PBA League, established in 2013 by the Professional Bowlers Association, features 5-player teams of the top bowlers in the world historically competing on eight original teams including Portland Lumberjacks, L.A. X, Dallas Strikers, NYC KingPins, Silver Lake Atom Splitters, Motown Muscle, Brooklyn Styles and Philadelphia Hitmen. The League will be adding two expansion clubs this season, the Las Vegas High Rollers and the Brew City Ballers (Milwaukee), bringing the number of teams to 10.

To be eligible for the draft, players must be ranked in the top 75 from a rolling PBA points list of 2019 and 2020 events. Headlining the list of eligible players are PBA champions Sean Rash, Francois Lavoie, Dick Allen, Andrew Anderson, BJ Moore, Jake Peters, Thomas Larsen, Jason Sterner, Ryan Ciminelli, DJ Archer, Osku Palermaa, Andres Gomez, Richard Teece, Ronnie Russell, Matt Ogle, Matt Sanders, Graham Fach, Ryan Shafer and Chris Loschetter. A full draft-eligible list is below.

PBA Tour Commissioner, Tom Clark, will preside over the draft. FloSports will produce this year’s PBA League Draft using a 12-person production team each working remotely in Austin, TX and other cities around the country. This year’s broadcast, available only on FloBowling, includes a 20-minute preshow featuring a preview of the draft as well as analysis and commentary from FloSports reporters and other guests. The League Draft show will include pre-taped packages, live interviews, video from team manager home offices as well as player reactions. This will be the second year FloSports has broadcast the PBA League draft.

The draft order, complete list of eligible players and current PBA team managers and players are listed below.

DRAFT ORDER (Snake draft)
Round 1:
1. Las Vegas
2. Brew City

Round 2:
1 (3). Brew City
2 (4). Las Vegas

Round 3:
1 (5). Las Vegas
2 (6). Brew City
3 (7). Philadelphia
4 (8). Brooklyn
5 (9). Motown
6 (10). Silver Lake
7 (11). NYC
8 (12). Dallas
9 (13). L.A.
10 (14). Portland

Round 4:
1 (15). Portland
2 (16). L.A.
3 (17). Dallas
4 (18). NYC
5 (19). Silver Lake
6 (20. Motown
7 (21). Brooklyn
8 (22). Philadelphia
9 (23). Brew City
10 (24). Las Vegas

Round 5:
1 (25). Las Vegas
2 (26). Brew City

DRAFT ELIGIBLE PLAYERS (listed in order by PBA points 2019-2020):

  • 5 Sean Rash Montgomery, Ill. 41,360.00
  • 13 Francois Lavoie, Canada 28,660.50
  • 17 Dick Allen, Lexington, S.C. 24,622.50
  • 19 AJ Johnson, Oswego, Ill. 24,165.50
  • 20 Brad Miller, Lees Summit, Mo. 23,990.00
  • 22 Darren Tang, Las Vegas 22,138.00
  • 25 Nicholas Pate, Inver Grove Heights, Minn. 18,440.00
  • 27 Andrew Anderson, Holly, Mich. 17,838.00
  • 30 AJ Chapman, Manchester, Iowa 16,887.50
  • 31 BJ Moore, Greensburg, Pa. 16,378.00
  • 32 Mitch Hupe, Canada 16,185.50
  • 33 Jake Peters Henderson, Nev. 15,325.00
  • 34 Thomas Larsen, Denmark 15,288.00
  • 35 Jason Sterner, Rochester, NY 15,278.00
  • 36 Anthony Lavery-Spahr, Pasadena, Texas 14,672.50
  • 37 Ryan Ciminelli Lancaster, S.C. 14,500.50
  • 38 DJ Archer Friendswood, Texas 14,290.00
  • 39 Chris Via Springfield, Ohio 14,115.00
  • 40 Zacharay Wilkins, Canada 14,090.50
  • 41 Osku Palermaa, Finland 13,615.00
  • 42 Patrick Girard, Canada 13,455.00
  • 43 Andres Gomez, Colombia 12,080.00
  • 44 Sam Cooley, Australia 11,723.00
  • 45 Mykel Holliman, Collierville, Tenn. 11,320.00
  • 46 Michael Tang, San Francisco 11,065.00
  • 47 Richard Teece, England 10,620.00
  • 49 Patrick Hanrahan, Wichita, Kan. 10,440.00
  • 50 Christopher Sloan, Ireland 10,415.00
  • 51 Martin Larsen, Sweden 10,390.00
  • 52 Greg Ostrander, Brick, N.J. 9,588.00
  • 53 Ronnie Russell, Marion, Ind. 9,337.50
  • 54 Arturo Quintero, Mexico 8,628.00
  • 55 Sean Lavery-Spahr, Pasadena, Texas 8,562.50
  • 56 Greg Young Viera, Fla. 8,490.00
  • 57 Matthew Ogle, Louisville, Ky. 8,447.50
  • 58 Matthew McNiel, Minneapolis, Minn. 8,300.00
  • 59 Nick Kruml, Downers Grove, Ill. 8,183.00
  • 60 Ildemaro Ruiz, Venezuela 7,752.50
  • 61 Matt Sanders, Indianapolis 7,340.00
  • 62 Kenneth Ryan, Farmingdale, NJ 7,235.00
  • 63 Nathan Bohr, Austin, Texas 6,915.00
  • 65 Kamron Doyle, Brentwood, Tenn. 6,623.00
  • 66 Zeke Bayt, Westerville, Ohio 6,445.00
  • 67 Brandon Novak, Chillicothe, Ohio 6,358.00
  • 68 Brian Robinson, Morgantown, W.Va. 6,332.50
  • 69 Graham Fach, Canada 6,152.50
  • 70 Ryan Shafer, Horseheads, N.Y. 5,872.50
  • 71 Michael Davidson, Versailles, Ohio 5,770.00
  • 72 Jake Rollins, Glen Rock, N.J. 5,758.00
  • 73 Chris Loschetter, Avon, Ohio 5,733.00
  • 74 Michael Martell, Brooklyn, N.Y. 5,628.00
  • 75 Pontus Andersson, Sweden 5,455.00

CURRENT PBA LEAGUE TEAM ROSTERS
*Note: Three protected players from 2019

Motown Muscle
Manager: Del Ballard
EJ Tackett
Anthony Simonsen
Josh Blanchard

Philadelphia Hitmen
Manager: Jason Couch
Dom Barrett
Tom Smallwood
Shawn Maldonado

Brooklyn Styles
Manager: Johnny Petraglia
Walter Ray Williams Jr.
Brad Angelo
Rhino Page

Dallas Strikers
Manager: Norm Duke
Norm Duke
Tommy Jones
Bill O'Neill

L.A. X
Manager: Andrew Cain
Jason Belmonte
Jakob Butturff
Stu Williams

Portland Lumberjacks
Manager: Tim Mack
Wes Malott
Kyle Troup
Kris Prather

Silver Lake Atom Splitters
Manager: Mark Baker
Chris Barnes
Jesper Svensson
Tom Daugherty

NYC KingPins
Manager: Carolyn Dorin-Ballard
Pete Weber
Marshall Kent
Kyle Sherman

Las Vegas High Rollers (expansion team)
Manager: Amleto Monacelli

Brew City Ballers (expansion team)
Manager: Marshall Holman

About the PBA
The Professional Bowlers Association (PBA) is the world’s preeminent organization dedicated to the sport of bowling and its professional competition, with thousands of members and millions of fans throughout the world. The PBAplays host to bowling’s biggest tournaments from the Go Bowling! PBA Tour, PBARegional Tour, and PBA50 Tour. In 2019, the PBA was acquired by Bowlero Corporation, the world’s largest owner and operator of bowling entertainment centers with more than 300 locations throughout North America. For more information, please visit PBA.com and BowleroCorp.com.

About FloSports
Founded in 2006, FloSports is a venture-backed subscription video streaming service dedicated to sports, offering live and on-demand access to hundreds of thousands of competition events across 25+ vertical sport categories in the US and abroad. FloSports’ mission is to give underserved sports the love they deserve. With a growing library of more than 300,000 hours of premium content including news, expert commentary, films, documentaries and more, FloSports has established itself as an innovator and leader in sports streaming. Finally, your sport has a home. For more information, please visit: flosports.tv.

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