{"id":201797,"date":"2026-04-18T15:48:38","date_gmt":"2026-04-18T15:48:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/201797\/"},"modified":"2026-04-18T15:48:38","modified_gmt":"2026-04-18T15:48:38","slug":"madisons-lauren-sammel-alive-in-winners-bracket-at-2026-usbc-senior-queens-faces-defending-champion-liz-johnson-next","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/201797\/","title":{"rendered":"Madison\u2019s Lauren Sammel alive in Winners Bracket at 2026 USBC Senior Queens, faces defending champion Liz Johnson next"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"__className_892fa1 text-[3em] text-[#dc0000] hover:text-[#dc0000] hover:no-underline leading-[1em]\" href=\"https:\/\/www.11thframe.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">11thframe.com<\/a><br \/>Bowling&#8217;s digital daily newspaper delivering news, analysis and opinion.Madison\u2019s Lauren Sammel alive in Winners Bracket at 2026 USBC Senior Queens, faces defending champion Liz Johnson next<\/p>\n<p>JEFF RICHGELS | Posted: Friday, April 17, 2026 9:30 pm<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"Madison\u2019s Lauren Sammel alive in Winners Bracket at 2026 USBC Senior Queens, faces defending champion Liz Johnson next\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"fill\" class=\"w-full h-full&#10;                  rounded-t-lg&#10;              \" style=\"position:absolute;height:100%;width:100%;left:0;top:0;right:0;bottom:0;object-fit:cover;color:transparent\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/1776527318_340_image.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Lauren Sammel wears the tiara after winning the 2022 Badger Queens. She&#8217;s now aiming to earn the USBC Senior Queens tiara as she is in the Winners Bracket heading to the final day of match play at the 2026 USBC Senior Queens.<\/p>\n<p>Madison\u2019s Lauren Sammel rallied to make match play and then won both of her matches Friday at the USBC Senior Queens at Sam\u2019s Town Bowling Center in Las Vegas.<br \/>\nHer reward? A match against Liz Johnson, arguably the greatest female bowler of all time and a dominating force in the tournament as she seeks a second straight Senior Queens title.<br \/>\nThe 87-player field at the 2026 USBC Senior Queens bowled 15 games of qualifying with Johnson and the other top 31 bowlers then advancing to the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"11thframe.comBowling&#8217;s digital daily newspaper delivering news, analysis and opinion.Madison\u2019s Lauren Sammel alive in Winners Bracket at 2026 USBC&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":201798,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[9,24,63,122,124,123],"class_list":{"0":"post-201797","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\/201797","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=201797"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201797\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/201798"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=201797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=201797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=201797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}