Continuing breakthrough year, Chris Via wins all-events Eagle on final squad of 2021 USBC Open Championships
JEFF RICHGELS | Posted: Sunday, July 18, 2021 11:00 pm
Chris Via, shown here after shooting 825 in team on Saturday, won the all-events Eagle at the 2021 USBC Open Championships with 2,303. Photo by USBC.
At the 1983 ABC Tournament (now the USBC Open Championships) in Niagara Falls, N.Y., Tony Cariello won the all-events Eagle by a single pin on the next-to-last day.
“He shot 276 in his third game of singles and I got to watch every freaking shot — hazards of being a local and working at the event,” said Fran Bax, who memorably shot 833 on the first squad of the tournament to carry his Doug Heim's Niagara Frontier Bowling Supply team to the team Eagle with 3,286...