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Nathan Michalowski leads 2019 Badger Elite qualifying with 1,814 for 8 games, cut to top 14 is 1,641

JEFF RICHGELS | Posted: Saturday, September 28, 2019 10:00 pm
Nathan Michalowski leads 2019 Badger Elite qualifying with 1,814 for 8 games, cut to top 14 is 1,641
Nathan Michalowski after winning a MAST tournament. Photo by Madison Area Scratch Tour.
Nathan Michalowski led Saturday’s qualifying for the 2019 Badger Elite with 1,814 for eight games at Dale’s Weston Lanes in Weston. The cut to the top 14 for Sunday’s match play was 1,641 in the tournament, which drew 56 entries. Although Weston Lanes had its lanes leveled last year, as I detailed in this story, the high friction AMF synthetics made the Kegel Sphinx lane pattern play fairly difficult, with some swing but essentially zero hold. Sphinx is a 40-foot...