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Caitlyn Johnson rebounds from brutal start to title match to win 2023 PWBA Pepsi Open for her first title

JEFF RICHGELS | Posted: Saturday, August 12, 2023 10:00 pm
Caitlyn Johnson rebounds from brutal start to title match to win 2023 PWBA Pepsi Open for her first title
Caitlyn Johnson beams after winning the 2023 PWBA Pepsi Open for her first PWBA Tour title. Photo by PWBA.
In the title match of the 2023 PWBA Pepsi Open, top seed Caitlyn Johnson started exactly how you might think a player would in their first stepladder finals, especially one who has “always sort of seen myself as the queen of second.” She came a tad high in the first and left a 4-7 she converted, light in the second for a 2-4-10 split she converted, high again in the third for a 4-7-9 split and open, carried a mixer strike in the fourth, then came high again in the fifth for a...