IT’S TIME TO GET YOUR BOWLING TEAMS TOGETHER FOR THE AMERICAN TURNERS NATIONAL BOWLING

TOURNAMENT!

The American Turner’s National Bowling Tournament for 2020 will be here in Syracuse!! 

We are only hosting it for ONE WEEKEND! (Yes you read that right!) We will have an informational meeting on Tuesday, January 21st at 7:00 p.m. for anyone wishing to volunteer to help us out that weekend. It’s a big undertaking and we need “All hands on deck”!

Thank you to all of our members that bought/sold the raffle tickets for our NYS Lottery raffle of 50 scratch off tickets.

We had a great turnout so will be hopefully be doing this again in the near future. So here are the results:

Grand Prize of 50 - $10 NYS Lotter Scratch off tickets Eric Coons

Second Prize of $200.00 Laurie Dineen

Third Prize of $100.00 JaniceWood (Sally Frenza’s sister)

PS. A special thank you to Eric Coons who donated his winnings back to the club! It is greatly appreciated Eric!

 We still have a LOT of Raffle tickets left to sell for the 50 Lottery Scratch off tickets so please try to get down and purchase one or two if you can!  The  drawing will be held at 3:00 p.m.  on New Year's Day.  2nd place is $200.00 and 3rd place is $100.   Tickets are just $10.00 each.   Thank you for your continued support of  our club. 

Are you having a family birthday party, a baby shower, a wedding shower, a wedding, or whatever! Why not check

out the club rates and have your parties’ right here! Many of our members have done just that and can’t believe how much they saved by hosting their party right here at their club!

Also, do your kids like bowling parties? Then check out the unbelievable rates we offer compared to other bowling

establishments! Or maybe you want to have an “Office bowling party” here. 

Whatever the occasion, please call the club 315-471-9851 and leave a message for Heather Hess.

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SECOND REQUEST!!

After 15 years of doing the Spirit, I REALLY need to hang up my computer and let someone else put a new

twist into the Spirit. If you would be willing to take care of putting together the Spirit once a month for the

months of September through June, please let me know. I just have too many other obligations at this time

and it’s also time for some new “blood” to give this newsletter a fresh new look! You can contact me at

judybacon@hotmail.com or call me at 315-575-1677 for any questions you may have.

  Masters  Update:
  Due to some scheduling conflicts and in an attempt to get as many  participants as possible for this years Masters Bowling Tournament, the  schedule has been adjusted as follows:  

• League Qualifying / Requalifying will continue through February 6th.
• Final Qualifying for non-league bowlers will be at 12:00 Noon on Saturday February 8th
• Roll-offs begin February 22nd and continuing on February 29th and March 1st.

Everyone will bowl on February 22nd at 11:30 AM  or 2:30 PM.   As in the past few years, the first round of qualifying  will be single elimination. Winners of the first round will bowl again  on Sunday 2/23 at 11:30 AM with the losers  of those matches bowling a second match on Sunday at 2:30 PM.   
 Winners and 1 time losers from the Sunday 2/23 rounds will continue on  Saturday and Sunday 2/29 and 3/1 with the Final Four being determined on  by the end of bowling on Sunday 3/1.  
 Finals will be Saturday March 7th at 3:00 pm 

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The Masters Tournament Format will remain unchanged this season. The first matches (Feb. 8th) of the tournament will be SINGLE

ELIMINATION matches, quickly taking 32 bowlers down to 16. These 16 winners will then begin double eliminations. The idea is to

shorten the length of time needed to commit, resulting in a greater number of bowlers participating. As in years past, we’ll hold a

“Bowler Calcutta” auction on Friday night, February 7th in the main bar of the Club beginning at 7:00 PM SHARP.

Championship matches, will be announced shortly. Watch your Turner Blast for the details. The championship match

will be formatted as a 4 BOWLER LADDER ROLL OFF: 2 game matches, beginning with 4th place vs. third. The winner of

that match then takes on the 2" place finalist, and the winner of that match will then try to beat the one undefeated

contestant (twice).

The final matches should roll along at a fast and furious pace, with the 4 Bowlers competing for the Masters Champion

title. After this has been determined, pictures will be taken, awards will be presented and following that, think CELEBRATION

The journey begins with the 10th annual Arlene Sutor Qualifying Tournament which begins the week of January 13th is open

to all bowlers with an established average whether they can manage the Masters or not. A “secret score” and first place prizes

will be awarded. As before, qualifying takes place during regular league bowling. A “Last Chance” qualifying round will be

held on February 1st at 12:00 Noon for any non-league bowlers or league bowlers who want to give it one last chance to better

their qualifying position. League Qualifying costs are $7.00 for the 1st qualifying attempt and $5.00 for subsequent attempts.

Fee for Non-League bowlers qualifying in the Last Chance round will be $10.00.

The Committee