Defending champion Julian Michael Salinas and Caroline Thesier remained in the lead Thursday at the 2020 Teen Masters after the opening round of match play.

Salinas posted a 4-2 record and has a 30-game total of 6,521, a 213.37 average, while Thesier went 6-0 in matches with a 5,895 total, a 190.50 average at AMF Shrader Lanes in Richmond, Virginia.

The match-play field will return Friday for two final six-game rounds of matches live on FloBowling to determine the event’s champions in the varsity division. The players in each division with the highest total after 42 games are crowned champions.

Bryce Oliver had the best match-play record in the boys field, going 5-1 and sitting in second place with 6,477. Nate Purches is third with 6,435, Brandon Bohn is fourth at 6,342 and Tommy Bunes is fifth with 6,336.

On the girls side, Thesier holds a big 285-pin lead on the field with Sydney Reardon in second place with 5,610. Kara Beissel is third with 5,609, Jaelle Hamman is fourth with 5,590 and Brooklyn Boudreau rounds out the top five with 5,574.

The Teen Masters only allows bowlers to use a urethane non-flare bowling ball named the PBA Skills 3.02. The patterns are also much different than those used in today’s bowling with the long pattern (42 feet) and short pattern (32 feet) both having just under seven milliliters of oil. By comparison, PBA patterns have between 25 and 35 mL of oil.

To view the girls scores after the first round of match play, click here. For the boys, click here.