Moore, Prather, Troup, O'Neill Make Scorpion Show
Moore, Prather, Troup, O'Neill Make Scorpion Show
Kyle Troup, Bill O’Neill, BJ Moore and Kris Prather will battle for the 2019 PBA Scorpion Championship title tonight.
ALLEN PARK, Mich. – Kyle Troup, Bill O’Neill, BJ Moore and Kris Prather will battle for the 2019 PBA Scorpion Championship title tonight.
The finals will take place at 8 p.m. today live from Thunderbowl Lanes on FS1 for U.S. audiences and on FloBowling for international audiences. Each player survived two rounds of best-of-five matches Tuesday to advance to the show.
Moore upset top seed Jason Belmonte in the Round of 16 with a 3-0 sweep and then defeated Thomas Larsen, 3-1, to earn a spot on the show.
Prather was down 2-1 against Norm Duke in the Round of 16 but threw 22 consecutive strikes to close out the match and win 3-1. He beat Anthony Simonsen in the Round of 8 by a score of 3-0.
Troup took down Shawn Maldonado, 3-1, while O’Neill defeated EJ Tackett, 3-2, in Round of 8 matches to make the show.
The format for tonight’s show is the same as it was for the Cheetah and Chameleon shows with the four finalists bowling a one-game seeding round to kick things off.
The highest score in the seeding round will be placed directly into the championship match as the No. 1 seed. The second highest score will be seeded into the semifinal, while the third and fourth scores will face in the first match.
For the full Round of 8 results, click here. For the Round of 16, click here.