
The fourth and final spot for the PBA World Championship finals will be determined this Sunday when the PBA World Championship Mike Aulby Division Final, airs at 1 pm ET Sunday on ESPN from the South Point Bowling Center in Las Vegas. The field of 16 finalists will be down to the final four for the Sunday, Jan. 15 battle for the $50000 first prize, the Earl Anthony Trophy and the PBA Tour's first major title of the 2011-12 season. Australia's two-handed star, Jason Belmonte, leads the field of four players in Sunday's Mike Aulby Division finals. He will be joined in the Aulby elimination round by Brian Kretzer of Dayton, Ohio; rookie Josh Blanchard of Gilbert, Ariz., and Mike Fagan of Dallas. Belmonte hasn't won a title since his first PBA Tour victory in the 2009 Bowling Foundation Long Island Classic propelled him to 2009-09 PBA Rookie of the Year honors. Kretzer won his only PBA Tour title in the 2010 Go RVing Match Play Championship. Fagan is a two-time title winner. His most recent victory was in the 2010 One A Day Dick Weber Open. Blanchard, a former Wichita State University star, joined the PBA in October and won a PBA West Region Non-Champions tournament in Reno, Nev., in his first appearance as a member. Sunday's telecast will be his PBA Tour television debut. The Aulby Division winner will join Finland's Osku Palermaa, Ryan Shafer of Horseheads, NY, and Sean Rash of Montgomery, Ill., in the World Championship finals on Sunday, Jan. 15, at 1 pm ET on ESPN. In <b>...</b>
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