Luck of the Irish at Avalon

David O'Sullivan overcame an open frame to claim the Fram Bohlman Open at Avalon Bowling Center Sunday.

O'Sullivan opened the first frame of the championship match against defending champion Sam Zurich to win 268-209.

After the open in the first frame, a 5-10 split, he realed off nine consecutive strikes to win the match.

Despite the open O'Sullivan was able to even up the match with Zurich until the seventh frame when Zurich suffered a pocket 7-10 split.

From that point O'Sullivan went from a two pin lead to a 34 pin advantage just two frames later.

Also Sunday a perfect game was bowled by Richard Langton in the quarterfinals.

Langton bowled his perfect game in a re-match of last year's championsihp game, but ended up losing the best of three series match to Zurich.

Another interesting note on Sunday was the fate of A.J. Rice.

Rice was eliminated from the best of three round when he fouled on his last ball in the tenth frame and lost to Matt Taylor.

Rice was already down one game in the best of three series and trailed 214-210 when he prepared to throw his final ball on the game and only needed a five count to force a deciding third game.

As he made his approach the buzzer sounded to indicate the foul and ended the tournament for Rice, who threw a 300 game in last year's open.

Local bowlers Zach Dwyer and Dwayne Dwyer finished the tournament in 19th and 20th place respectively. The brothers were seperated by just 14 pins.

On the Thursday in league play Dwayne bowled a 290, but Zach could not let his brother out do him and bowled a 300 on the same night.