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Pre-tourney favorite Matt McNiel rolls to Fusion Realtors Open title

JEFF RICHGELS | Posted: Sunday, September 18, 2011 4:00 pm
Considering his dominating win of the USBC Open Championships all-events title in 2010, Matt McNiel has to be cast as the favorite in any tournament that features the lane pattern from that event. That's how it was for the inaugural Fusion Realtors Cedar Valley Open at Maple Lanes in Waterloo, Iowa, a great new event that is part of the Greater Iowa Bowling Association run by Joe Engelkes. And that's exactly how it turned out, as the smooth and powerful Minnesota lefty led Saturday's...