{"id":203103,"date":"2026-04-20T10:00:13","date_gmt":"2026-04-20T10:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/203103\/"},"modified":"2026-04-20T10:00:13","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T10:00:13","slug":"liz-johnson-wins-back-to-back-usbc-senior-queens-titles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/203103\/","title":{"rendered":"Liz Johnson Wins Back-to-Back USBC Senior Queens Titles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#13;<br \/>\n  Liz Johnson secured her second consecutive USBC Senior Queens title on Sunday,&#13;<br \/>\n  winning the 2026 event in Las Vegas.&#13;\n<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n  The Hall of Famer defeated Lynda Barnes in the championship match, winning&#13;<br \/>\n  both games 277\u2013258 and 255\u2013244 at Sam\u2019s Town Bowling Center.&#13;\n<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"672\" data-end=\"800\">&#13;<br \/>\n  <a href=\"https:\/\/discord.gg\/QvXH8HsHHh\" rel=\"noopener nofollow sponsored noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); display: inline !important;\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Best bowling balls review article banner\" class=\"max-w-[1200px] max-h-[150px]\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Discord_ad_banner_bowlinglife.png\"\/><\/a>&#13;\n<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n  With the victory, Johnson earned $8,000 and became the first repeat champion&#13;<br \/>\n  at the USBC Senior Queens in ten years, joining Robin Romeo, Sandra Postma,&#13;<br \/>\n  Lucy Sandelin, and Shirley Levens as multiple-time winners of the event.&#13;\n<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n  Johnson, the No. 2 seed, advanced to the championship match after defeating&#13;<br \/>\n  Kristin McEntee 265\u2013216 in the semifinal.&#13;\n<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n  In the final match against top seed Lynda Barnes, Johnson had to win twice to&#13;<br \/>\n  secure the championship.&#13;\n<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n  In the first title match, Johnson won a high-scoring game, 277\u2013258. The final&#13;<br \/>\n  game followed a similar pattern, with both players starting strong. In the&#13;<br \/>\n  closing frames, Johnson was more consistent and struck more, finishing with a&#13;<br \/>\n  255\u2013244 win to secure the title.&#13;\n<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;\n<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n  The stepladder finals began with Rina Sabo defeating Jodi Woessner 212\u2013201 in&#13;<br \/>\n  the opening match. McEntee then eliminated Sabo 257\u2013214 to advance to the&#13;<br \/>\n  semifinal.&#13;\n<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n  The 2026 USBC Senior Queens featured 86 competitors.&#13;\n<\/p>\n<p>Here is the HTML code for the 2026 USBC Senior Queens Stepladder Finals bracket, designed to match the vertical style of your previous results blocks.<\/p>\n<p>HTML<\/p>\n<p>  &#13;<br \/>\n    2026 USBC Senior Queens Stepladder Finals&#13;<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n      Match 1&#13;\n    <\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n        (#4) Rina Sabo&#13;<br \/>\n        212&#13;\n      <\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n        (#5) Jodi Woessner&#13;<br \/>\n        201&#13;\n      <\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n      Match 2&#13;\n    <\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n        (#3) Kristin McEntee&#13;<br \/>\n        257&#13;\n      <\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n        (#4) Rina Sabo&#13;<br \/>\n        214&#13;\n      <\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n      Semifinal Match&#13;\n    <\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n        (#2) Liz Johnson&#13;<br \/>\n        265&#13;\n      <\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n        (#3) Kristin McEntee&#13;<br \/>\n        216&#13;\n      <\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n      Championship Match (First Game)&#13;\n    <\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n        (#2) Liz Johnson&#13;<br \/>\n        277&#13;\n      <\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n        (#1) Lynda Barnes&#13;<br \/>\n        258&#13;\n      <\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n      Championship Match (Second Game)&#13;\n    <\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n        (#2) Liz Johnson&#13;<br \/>\n        255&#13;\n      <\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n        (#1) Lynda Barnes&#13;<br \/>\n        244&#13;\n      <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; Liz Johnson secured her second consecutive USBC Senior Queens title on Sunday,&#13; winning the 2026 event in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":203104,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[9,24,63,122,124,123],"class_list":{"0":"post-203103","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\/203103","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=203103"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203103\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/203104"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=203103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=203103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=203103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}