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Cherie Tan wins final match over Shannon Pluhowsky to earn top seed for 2019 QubicaAMF PWBA Players Championship; Shannon O'Keefe clinches 2019 PWBA Player of the Year

JEFF RICHGELS | Posted: 9/6/2019, 11:00 PM
Cherie Tan wins final match over Shannon Pluhowsky to earn top seed for 2019 QubicaAMF PWBA Players Championship; Shannon O'Keefe clinches 2019 PWBA Player of the Year
The stepladder finalists for the 2019 PWBA Players Championship, left to right and in order from first to fifth: Cherie Tan, Shannon Pluhowsky, Liz Johnson, Dasha Kovalova, and Shannon O'Keefe.
Coming into the final, position-round match of the 2019 QubicaAMF PWBA Players Championship on Friday night, Cherie Tan held a 30-pin lead over fellow left-hander Shannon Pluhowsky. With 30 bonus pins awarded for a match win, that meant Tan needed to tie or beat Pluhowsky to secure the top seed for Sunday’s stepladder finals live on CBS Sports Network at 3 p.m. Central time from Buffaloe Lanes North in Raleigh, N.C. PWBA reported that Pluhowsky struck on six of her first seven shots, but...

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