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Casey Murphy, Dale Traber win PBA Regionals in Council Bluffs, Iowa

JEFF RICHGELS | Posted: Sunday, September 8, 2013 8:00 pm
Casey Murphy, Dale Traber win PBA Regionals in Council Bluffs, Iowa
The winners of Sunday's Baker format team event with Thunderbowl manager Brenda Stevens (center). Left to right, team members are Andrew Jensen, Jason Poli, Jimmy Johnson and Pete Weber.
A full weekend of PBA Regional action in Council Bluffs, Iowa ended with Casey Murphy and Dale Traber winning titles on Saturday and Pete Weber leading his team to a win in the additional Baker format tournament on Sunday. All of the competition was conducted on the PBA50 Viper pattern on Thunderbowl’s AMF HPL lanes so the word of the weekend was friction. The lanes were "frictitious," as Jeff Carter coined the term. Murphy defeated Matt Tomsu 215-203 in the title match of the...