Walter Ray Williams Jr. will have a chance to move closer to the all-time record for career PBA50 Tour titles tonight when he bowls as the top seed in the stepladder finals of the 2019 PBA50 National Championship.

Williams finished match play with a 12-4 record and total of 8,479 for 34 games, a 238.79 average, to earn the top seed for the season’s first major at Spanish Springs Lanes in The Villages, Florida. The finals begin at 7 p.m. Eastern live on FloBowling.

Williams, who lives in nearby Oxford, Florida, dominated throughout match play and led the field by 337 pins heading into the stepladder finals.

Results: PBA50 National Championship Match Play Round 2

After winning the season-opening PBA50 Johnny Petraglia BVL Open for his 12^th career PBA50 title, Williams needs two more to tie the all-time record of 14. A win tonight would also make him the clear frontrunner for 2019 PBA50 Player of the Year.

Fellow PBA Hall of Famer Norm Duke, the leader after qualifying, qualified second for the finals after posting a 9-7 record and total of 8,142.

A third PBA Hall of Famer, Amleto Monacelli, earned the third seed for the stepladder finals by finishing with an 11-5 record and 8,132 total.

The opening match of the stepladder will feature 2018 PBA50 Player of the Year Michael Haugen Jr., who qualified fourth with 8,108, taking on 2017 PBA50 Player of the Year Brian LeClair, who was fifth with 8,070.