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Nearly perfect Tom Smallwood advances from play-in stepladder of 2024 PBA Playoffs

JEFF RICHGELS | Posted: Saturday, May 4, 2024 11:00 pm
Nearly perfect Tom Smallwood advances from play-in stepladder of 2024 PBA Playoffs
With a 298 game, Tom Smallwood advanced from Saturday's play-in stepladder of the 2024 PBA Playoffs. Photo by PBA.
After Andrew Anderson beat Packy Hanrahan 191-185 in the semifinal match of Saturday’s play-in stepladder of the 2024 PBA Playoffs, no one was expecting a high-scoring final match between Anderson and Tom Smallwood.  “I felt like 225 would be a winner,” Smallwood said in this PBA news release. “Then I started with the front five, he had a 279 pace and I’m like, ‘Well, I might have to shoot 300 to even have a chance to win.’ ” “If...