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Mike Dole wins Diamond Jo Regional for 1st PBA title

JEFF RICHGELS | Posted: Sunday, September 20, 2015 10:00 pm
Mike Dole wins Diamond Jo Regional for 1st PBA title
Mike Dole, left, with Cherry Lanes General Manager Bob Hochrein after Dole won PBA Budweiser Midwest Open Hosted by Diamond Jo on Sunday. Photo by Midwest PBA.
A lazy observer might look at Mike Dole’s commanding win in Sunday’s PBA Regional at Cherry Lanes in Dubuque, Iowa and say it must have been a pattern that favored left-handers. A closer look at the standings would cure anyone of that thought, as the only other lefty in the field was Matt McNiel — the man inarguably having the best 2015 of any non-PBA Tour bowler — and he finished 19th in the 35-player field. Dole, meanwhile, led qualifying with 1,724 for seven games...