Top seed Cherie Tan among 16 unbeaten after Day 1 of match play at 2023 USBC Queens; superstar Shannon O’Keefe, Wisconsinite Carlene Beyer also 2-0

After leading 2023 USBC Queens qualifying by 145 pins, Cherie Tan kept cruising in Sunday’s first day of match play to finish as one of 16 unbeaten players. In an odd twist, Tan, a left-hander from Singapore, beat countrymates Hui Fen New 640-590 and Daphne Tan 606-549. After the 15 games of qualifying Thursday through Saturday, the top 63 players and Birgit Noreiks, who was guaranteed a spot in the bracket as the defending champion, advanced to the double-elimination match play bracket Su...