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Welcome to the Bowlers Association of Connecticut Web Site which continues to offer and to provide the most up to date information and news in Connecticut Duckpin Bowling...

The Duckpin Season continues for 2009...Good Luck to All of Tour Bowlers and Summer League Bowlers in Connecticut and we hope all are having a fun and exciting year in Duckpins...

Paul Grohs gets his Third Star with Hagerstown Stop win this weekend!!!

Congratulations to Paul Grohs who defeated Mark Callahan late Sunday afternoon 186-113 to capture his third Pro-Tour Star!!! It definitely wasn't an easy road for Paulie, who qualified tied for the last two spots to get into Sunday's divisional rounds. He was tied with Luke Robustelli and Walt Brooks and was forced to bowl a roll-off with them early Sunday Morning but managed to get into the last and final spot for Sunday...Paul then went 5-0 in his division shooting 807 scratch pinfall to get the #2 Seed on the ladder...He defeated Steve Iavarrone in his first match 149-128, then met Callahan for the final match in which he defeated Mark fairly easily 186-113...Paulie took home his Third Star and the Top Prize of $10,000!!! Congratulations Paul!...For more results and scores from the recent weekend at Longmeadow Bowl in Hagerstown, check out the DPBA Website at www.dpba.org...

Colin Dunnack Wins the BAC Series Finals at Highland Bowl to become Champion of Connecticut in 08/09!!!

Congratulations!!! to Colin Dunnack who became this year's Champion of the Series Finals...Colin bowled his way and won through the Divisional Matchups and the Ladder, where he was seeded number one, quite easily...He went 5-0 with 890 in the Divisional Matches and defeated No. 3 Seed Art Morin in the final match of the day 185 (168+17) to 153 (115+38)...This tops Colin's most successful month as he also finished a very impressive third place in the Pro Tour held earlier this month at Highland Bowl...Second Place went to Art Morin, who did make quite a dramatic run in his division and ladder matches until he met up with Top Seed Colin...Third went to Tony Quinn, who also made quite a run, since he was 32nd in the finals standings and then called upon to be the second alternate... Congratulations to all of the bowlers that made the finals this year and made it as successful as it has been from years past...Also, a special thanks for Highland Bowl and Todd Turcotte for hosting this event!...The complete wrapup of the Finals have been posted below...

BAC Series Finals Results 2008-2009

Mike Drotar leads the rest of the Top 30 BAC Bowlers into the Series Finals at Highland Bowl on May 9th...

The BAC Tournament Series Schedule is over for this season!...Mike Drotar finished the season in the number one spot in the Standings with a total of 398 points...That included three wins this season, The Action Doubles with Pete Signore, and the two Tournament Stops at Holiday Lanes...Second place went to Bryan Eseppi with 394 points...He had a second place at Perillo's and a third place finish at Holiday Lanes...Third place went to Sandee Canfield who finished with 368 points, and included two Second Place finishes (Highland and Perillo's) and two Third Place finishes (Highland and Holiday)...Fourth went to Gene Broderick with 325 points and Mike Trepanier wrapped up the Top Five with 324 points...As far as the Bottom of the Top 30...Rick Ganoe catapulted up to 23 with a Second Place finish at Barnum Lanes this week as did Luke Robustelli who was on the bubble with the win!!...Tom Domonique and John Clauson didn't bowl as well as they may have hoped but still found their way in by four and two points respectively...On the other side, Jason Smith finished fourth, and Kristen Robustelli and Brian Latham made their last efforts to claw their way in but came up a bit short...The Top 30 will all start from scratch on May 9th and the BAC will then crown the 2008-2009 Champion...The Complete Standings for the 08-09 BAC Season is posted below...The BAC wishes all bowlers that did qualify for the Finals good luck in bowling on May 9th...

Final BAC Series Standings (Unofficial)

'The Open' Summer Sessions and 'Adult/Alumni Challenge Matches'...

T-Bowl (Fun-Squared) in Newington are hosting 'The Open' Summer Sessions and the 'Adult/Alumni Challenge Matches'...'The Open' event will start on Friday June 5th...and the 'Adult/Alumni Challenge Matches' will be hosted on July 24-26...For more information and contact info on these two exciting events, please see the Bowlers Page...Anyone interested in bowling in any one of these events can contact Fun-Squared (T-Bowl) Lanes or visit their website below for additional contact information...