http://www.pba.com/news/feature.asp?ID=167My Blue Dot Heaven
BALTIMORE - 12/6/2006
Michael Houtz admitted some people gave him a hard time about using a Columbia Blue Dot ball during Wednesday’s Denny’s PBA Tour Qualifying Round, but he got the last laugh.
Houtz used the classic plastic ball – which is in production on a limited basis – to lead the Denny’s PBA Tour Qualifying Round with a 1,744 seven-game pinfall to advance to the Round of 64 in the 2006 Beltway Classic at AMF Country Club Lanes.
A PBA member since 2005, Houtz (Myerstown, Pa.) fired a 258 in his final game, finishing just one pin ahead of William Barlow (Edgewood, Md.), who shot 256 his final game and finished second with 1,743.
“I use (the Blue Dot) all the time on three of the PBA Regional Tour patterns, and on the Cheetah pattern I usually use a (Columbia) Shadow or a Blue Dot. I don’t like dealing with the over-under reaction you get on with a reactive ball,†said Houtz, who averaged 249.14 on the high-scoring Cheetah oil pattern Wednesday. “There are a few people who give me a hard time about it, but you have to do what you have to do out there. I was surprised that it carried as well as it did. I’m going to try it again tomorrow and if the lanes play the same I’ll use it.â€
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