John Szczerbinski of Team USA has the lead at the 2010 World Cup, after round 2 of the men’s qualifying stages.

Szczerbinski has a 10-game total of 2335, averaging 246.8 for his 5 games of round 2, after two rounds. Of the current second place contender Mads Sandbaekken of Team Norway, this puts him exactly 75 points ahead. 238, 246, 267, 256, and 227 were his scores Wednesday.

After 11 games, team USA’s female representative Carolyn Dorin-Ballard sits in eighth place with 2307, a full 167 behind the current women’s leader Min-Young Gye of Korea.

Dorin-Ballard, in her six-game block with scores of 207, 265, 226, and 219, she started off strong, while she followed that up with a terrible 159 and a mediocre 205.

Over three days of play, all competitors will have a total of 16 games. To finish up, on Thursday, the men will bowl six games to complete their 16. On Wednesday, the women bowled their 6-game round. The top 24 men and top 24 women will play 8 additional games, after the third round of qualifying. After this, for the Friday night round-robin match play, the field will be cut to eight players. The best three men and women then advance to the semifinals, following the Friday night match play.

What is on your mind on Saturday, Aug. 7? You’ll probably be helping to set a new world record, if you’re a bowler.

Across the United States, more than 3,200 bowling centers will be teaming up that day to set a new, single-day record for most games played.

The record-setting attempt will be the culmination of the 2010 National Bowling Week, which kicks off on July 31, dubbed National Bowling Day. Bowlers can download a free game coupon and bowlers can download a free game coupon at www.gobowling.com, in an attempt to help break the record.

Strike Ten Entertainment (STE), the Professional Bowlers Association (PBA), Bowling Proprietors’ Association of America, the International Bowling Pro Shop and Instructors Association (IBPSIA) and the United States Bowling Congress (USBC) are the sponsors of the event and week.

The current record of 741,821 bowling games played in a single day, which was set last year; bowlers across America will make an attempt to break the same.

To break, the Bowling Proprietors’ Association of America was established. To bring together what was at the time a fragmented group of proprietors and as an attempt by a small group of bowling center owners revive their businesses, this association began.

At the Canadian Open five-pin bowling championships for year, Saskatoon had a firm grip on the medals.They were betting fans favorite. This trend has now come to an end.

The women’s team only managed to take home a fourth place finish in this year’s event, after winning medals at this venue for six years. In the round-robin tournament, they managed to place third, but lost their match against Alberta in the stepladder match. The final pin count was 1,275 pins to 1, 106.

To beat Alberta, it is unclear why they struggled so much. They easily disposed Alberta’s squad, in their matched in the round-robin play.

online betting star men’s team, Saskatoon, did not fare much better. In the round-robin play, they only managed to finish fourth, and then they fell easily to British Columbia in the first round of the stepladder. In favor of British Columbia, the pin count of their match against British Columbia was 1,315 to 1,198.

For Saskatoon, it appears that the era of dominance is over and the five-pin championships will be wide open for here on out.

In 1909, Five-pin bowling is a sport that was invented in Canada, in response to complaints from bowlers. Ten-pin bowling demanded too much strength from the participant and it was seen as too strenuous. The pins and ball were shaved down to their current size to allow all to participate. To determine who the best players of the sport are, the sport now holds tournaments in Canada. In recent history, the team from Saskatoon has had the most success.