Doug Leikness knows about agonizing close calls at the Petersen Classic.
About 10 years ago, the Madison right-hander needed 233 the last game to take the lead toward the end of the tournament and rolled a couple of doubles, but a 5-7-10 Petersen special was a killer.
“I spared in the ninth when I needed a strike, and missed a 3-pin in the 10th,” Leikness told 11thFrame.com in a phone interview on Labor Day.
Then in 2022, Leikness fired 1,763, but fell eight pins short of leader...