ATX Invite Countdown: No. 1 Sean Rash
ATX Invite Countdown: No. 1 Sean Rash
No one on the PBA Tour has been hotter in recent weeks than Sean Rash and his perch atop the PBA Summer Tour points list is a prime example of his success.
The inaugural FloBowling ATX Invite will take place Sept. 21 at 2 p.m. Eastern with the top eight players from the FloBowling PBA Summer Tour competing for a top prize of $25,000. To get you prepared for the competition, we are taking a closer look at each of the players in the field.
Sean Rash
Hometown: Montgomery, Illinois
Age: 37
ATX Seed: No. 1
First-round opponent: No. 8 Tommy Jones
How he advanced: First in Summer Tour points with 9,135
Summer Tour recap
No one on the PBA Tour has been hotter in recent weeks than Rash and his perch atop the PBA Summer Tour points list is a prime example of the success he has had.
Rash made the show in four of the final six events of the summer season and picked up a victory at the PBA Wolf Open.
“I’m riding a high, a lot of confidence,” Rash said. “It’s nice to go out and compete and people think I’m a threat again whereas last year, being injured, people just took me for granted. And it’s nice to prove the haters wrong – the people who didn’t think I was working hard enough – and they know who they are. It’s nice to stick it to them.”
Rash also finished second at the PBA Wilmington Open and the PBA Bowlerstore Classic and closed out the summer season with a fourth-place finish at the PBA Illinois Open.
By virtue of his strong performance, and thanks in part to Jason Sterner defeating EJ Tackett to win the Illinois Open, Rash also earned a $20,000 bonus for leading the summer tour points as part of the USBC Cup competition.
The FloBowling ATX Invite will be broadcast live exclusively on FloBowling. The action begins with the opening round of the bracket at 2 p.m. Eastern on Sept. 21 and the best-of-three final starting at approximately 5 p.m. Eastern.
Here’s a look at the schedule of matches with all times listed in Eastern:
Saturday, Sept. 21
Opening round (one game matches)
2 p.m. - Match 1: #1 Sean Rash vs. #8 Tommy Jones
2:30 p.m. - Match 2: #4 Jason Sterner vs. #5 AJ Johnson
3 p.m. - Match 3: #2 EJ Tackett vs. #7 Kyle Sherman
3:30 p.m. - Match 4: #3 Anthony Simonsen vs. #6 Bill O'Neill
Semifinals (one game matches)
4 p.m. - Semifinal 1: Match 1 winner vs. Match 2 winner
4:30 p.m. - Semifinal 2: Match 3 winner vs. Match 4 winner
Final (best-of-three match)
5 p.m. - Final: Semifinal 1 winner vs. Semifinal 2 winner