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Josie Barnes a win from second major title as she tops a global stepladder finals for 2025 USBC Queens

JEFF RICHGELS | Posted: Monday, May 19, 2025 11:00 pm
Josie Barnes a win from second major title as she tops a global stepladder finals for 2025 USBC Queens
The stepladder finalists for the 2024 USBC Queens, left to right from first to fifth: Josie Barnes, Nur Hazirah Ramli, Sin Li Jane, Valerie Bercier, and Clara Guerrero. Photo by USBC.
Josie Barnes needs to win just one game for her second major title as she topped a global stepladder finals for the 2025 USBC Queens at the Suncoast in Las Vegas. Barnes went 6-0 in double-elimination match play Sunday and Monday, winning with series of 697, 683, 712, 620 and 632 before routing Malaysia’s Nur Hazirah Ramli 699-603 in the final winners bracket match for the top seed. Nur, who is competing in her first PWBA Tour event, earned the No. 2 seed for the stepladder finals, which...