{"id":200965,"date":"2026-04-17T17:44:57","date_gmt":"2026-04-17T17:44:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/200965\/"},"modified":"2026-04-17T17:44:57","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T17:44:57","slug":"defending-champion-liz-johnson-leads-2026-usbc-senior-queens-after-day-1-even-though-she-doesnt-need-to","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/200965\/","title":{"rendered":"Defending champion Liz Johnson leads 2026 USBC Senior Queens after Day 1 \u2014 even though she doesn&#8217;t need to"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As defending champion of the USBC Senior Queens, Liz Johnson is guaranteed a spot in the double-elimination match play bracket in the 2026 Senior Queens at Sam\u2019s Town Bowling Center in Las Vegas.<br \/>\nSo how she bowls in qualifying is meaningless, other than for seeding.<br \/>\nThat didn\u2019t stop the Hall of Famer from leading the 86-player field through Thursday\u2019s first two rounds of qualifying, firing games of 259, 227, 236, 234 and 213 for 1,169 in the first round and 268, 268, 214, 225&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As defending champion of the USBC Senior Queens, Liz Johnson is guaranteed a spot in the double-elimination match&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":200966,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[9,24,63,122,124,123],"class_list":{"0":"post-200965","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-queens","8":"tag-new-york","9":"tag-new-york-city","10":"tag-nyc","11":"tag-queens","12":"tag-queens-headlines","13":"tag-queens-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200965","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=200965"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200965\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/200966"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}