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3-time USBC Eagle winner Brian Waliczek takes lead at 2020 Petersen Classic with 1,627

JEFF RICHGELS | Posted: Saturday, August 15, 2020 1:00 pm
3-time USBC Eagle winner Brian Waliczek takes lead at 2020 Petersen Classic with 1,627
Potential future USBC Hall of Famer Brian Waliczek fired a 1,627 on Friday to take the lead at the 2020 Petersen Classic. Photo by Petersen Classic.
Brian Waliczek, a 3-time Eagle winner at the USBC Open Championships, fired a 1,627 on Friday to take the lead at the 2020 Petersen Classic at Brunswick Zone River Grove in suburban Chicago. The prior leader was Harold Hughes, a fellow Michigan bowler who totaled 1,589 on the opening weekend of the 2020 Petersen, which was truncated by the COVID-19 pandemic. The Petersen reported in this Facebook post that Waliczek started with a 174 that would be his low for the night before rolling 244,...