The 2024 3-Person Scratch Tournament Benefitting the Prairie Lanes Junior Scholarship Fund is set for Saturday, Nov. 2 at 11:30 a.m. at Prairie Lanes in Sun Prairie.

The entry fee is $70 per bowler, or $210 per team, $130 to the prize fund, $30 to lineage, and $50 to the scholarship fund.

The field is limited to 28 teams, with first $1,350 and second $660 based on 24 teams, and a 1-in-4 cashing ratio.

There also will be pot games, individual and team brackets, and bowling ball and cash raffles.

The format for qualifying is three traditional games followed by six Baker format games, with the top quarter of the field advancing to match play finals and cashing. Match play will be single-elimination featuring 2-game Baker format total pins. Players will bowl frames 1-4-7-10, 2-5-8 and 3-6-9, with one game on one lane of a pair and the second game on the other lane of a pair.

The lane pattern is the 2024 U.S. High School National Championship lane pattern, which is on the level of a house shot. The pattern is 42 feet with a 35-foot drop brush and 30.6 mL of oil — 16.8 mL forward and 13.8 mL reverse. The ratios are 6.5-1 middle-outside track, 1.49-1 middle-middle track and 1-1 middle-inside track. The PDF of the pattern is attached to this story. 

To reserve a spot, contact Chris or Brittany Pollentier, or email SPjrbowlingfund@gmail.com. 

A $70 deposit is required to secure a team spot. The deposit becomes non-refundable after Nov. 5. You can pay by cash, check, or Venmo (Chris Pollentier: @cpollentier300).

Dave Beres, Chris Pierson and Matt Hibbard won the 2023 tournament, as I detailed in this story. With 28 teams, first was $1,500 and second $690.

Chris Jackson, Ben Hafeman and Chad Kuehmichel won the 2022 tournament, as I detailed in this story. With 28 teams, first was $1,495 and second was $690.

Ron Wallenkamp Jr., Kyle Geurtsen, and Bryan Thompson led qualifying and went on to win the third edition in 2021, as I detailed in this story. (There was no tournament in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.) With 27 teams, first was $1,290 and second was $645.

Andy Mills, Trevor Yonan and Zach Woelfel won the second annual tournament in 2019, as I detailed in this story. With a full field, first was $1,320 and second $660.

Pierson, Dave Labinski and Beres — three members of the 2018 USBC Open Championships team all-events Eagle winning Red Carpet Lanes team — won the inaugural tournament in 2018, as I detailed in this story. With 26 teams, first was $1,260 and second $630.