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With good fortune on his side this time, Anthony Simonsen beats Jason Belmonte to win 2019 PBA Players Championship

JEFF RICHGELS | Posted: Sunday, February 17, 2019 4:00 pm
With good fortune on his side this time, Anthony Simonsen beats Jason Belmonte to win 2019 PBA Players Championship
Anthony Simonsen smiles after winning the 2019 PBA Players Championship. Photo by Pro Bowlers Association.
The pocket 7-10 probably is the most common split left by top-level bowlers, and it usually happens when a ball enters the pocket at a bad angle or with the wrong energy. In Sunday’s title match of the 2019 PBA Players Championship, Jason Belmonte left pocket 7-10s in the fourth and 10th frames as he lost to Anthony Simonsen 232-212. But these weren’t run-of-the-mill pocket 7-10s like I described in the first paragraph of this story — they were ringing 10-pin shots that...