MALDONADO USES MISSION TO WIN TEXAS MASTERS Two-handed bowler - Mission is a great ball
Mar 01, 2010
Shawn Maldonado annihilated the competition at the Texas Masters recently using Ebonite’s latest, The Mission.
“I chose the Mission over my other equipment because it gives me a predictable read through the heads as well as down the lane,” he said. “The Mission I was throwing had 100-plus games on it and I haven’t cleaned it once. It is still trucking through the pins. It’s a great ball.”
Maldonado, 23, has been bowling since he was 2 years old using a two-handed delivery method.
“I started out throwing it two handed because the ball was too heavy,” he said. “I just kept throwing it that way as I got older. The difference between me and most other two-handed bowlers is that I do put my thumb all the way in the thumb hole.”
A Houston native, Maldonado works part time at Gary James Bowling Supplies.
Maldonado, who said the Texas Masters was bowled on a modified PBA pattern, won $2,000 plus an entry into next year’s masters, he said.
— Based in Hopkinsville, Ky., Ebonite International is a privately-owned company that currently services bowling centers, distributors and retail outlets both domestically and internationally. The company’s consumer product brands include Ebonite, Hammer, Robby’s, Columbia 300, Track and Powerhouse™; its commercial product brand is Ebonite Bowling Center Direct.
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