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Lower seeds win 4 of 6 matches in opening day of Smithfield PWBA Tour Championship

JEFF RICHGELS | Posted: Friday, September 2, 2016 11:00 pm
Lower seeds win 4 of 6 matches in opening day of Smithfield PWBA Tour Championship
After Friday's opening day of matches at the Smithfield PWBA Tour Championship, the 16 competitors spent Friday night at the Richmond Flying Squirrels baseball game. The players are New Hui Fen, Liz Johnson, Cherie Tan, Bryanna Caldwell Coté, Shannon Pluhowsky, Kelly Kulick, Shannon O'Keefe, Josie Kaye Earnest, Stefanie Johnson, Maria Jose Rodriguez, Amanda Greene and Rocio Restrepo de Hostetler. Photo by Professional Women's Bowling Association.
Lower seeds won four of the six matches Friday as the Smithfield PWBA Tour Championship kicked off at Uptown Alley in Midlothian, Virgina, PWBA reported. Of course, when you’re talking about the top 16 qualifiers from the 2016 PWBA Tour regular season, it’s hard to call any result an upset. That’s even more true when the top four points winners received byes to Saturday’s competition, leaving seeds 5-16 to compete Friday. The competition opened with 5 seed Amanda...