Familiarity breeds contentment
Adams, Muscari roll well at Waveland
Home, home on Western Avenue.
“I felt really at home,’’ said LeKetha Adams after she won the women’s side of the Section 3 sectional of the 56th Beat the Champions on Sunday at Waveland Bowl.
Adams, who bowls in the Wednesday Mixed Classic at Waveland, compiled a 749, including 78 pins of handicap and a 257 game.
Anthony Muscari, who came up through the youth leagues at Waveland, won the men’s side with a 756, on consistent games of 244, 226, 227 and 56 pins of handicap.
Adams actually advanced in BTC out of Bluebird Lanes, which will host the women’s finals on March 12.
“I am hoping I feel at home there, too,’’ said Adams, who finished seventh in the finals last year. The Chicago woman works in the religious services department of the Cook County Sheriff’s office.
Familiarity helped Muscari, too.
“Lanes were working for me,’’ he said. “I threw my usual shot. I stayed there the whole game, well, moved a little left.’’
The 19- year- old sophomore nursing student at Malcolm X was bowling in his first year of adult leagues.
The top five women and top five men advanced to the BTC finals. This year the top prize in the finals for both the women’s and men’s champions is $ 7,500.
Skyway Bowl also had a good day advancing two women — Terian Williams-Gibbs, a claim tech from Calumet Park and Pamela Terry, a retired Chicago teacher — and two men — Steven Brown, a 22- year- old student at Harold Washington and Kilija Benson.
Mary Gamble, a sales associate with the U. S. Postal Service, is making a return trip to the finals, too. She finished sixth in 2012. Kim Hallman, a Chicago painter, finished second with a 697.
The other men advancing to the finals were Jerry Harris, a truck driver from La Grange and Dennis McBride, a route driver from Morton Grove.
BTC is a handicapped charity tournament put on by the Chicagoland Bowling Proprietors Association with the Sun- Times as the media sponsor. It has raised more than $ 2.8 million for charity, so far.