{"id":232460,"date":"2026-05-15T07:56:40","date_gmt":"2026-05-15T07:56:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/232460\/"},"modified":"2026-05-15T07:56:40","modified_gmt":"2026-05-15T07:56:40","slug":"like-fine-wine-hall-of-famer-liz-johnson-averages-nearly-250-to-lead-after-day-1-of-2026-usbc-queens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/232460\/","title":{"rendered":"Like fine wine: Hall of Famer Liz Johnson averages nearly 250 to lead after Day 1 of 2026 USBC Queens"},"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.Like fine wine: Hall of Famer Liz Johnson averages nearly 250 to lead after Day 1 of 2026 USBC Queens<\/p>\n<p>JEFF RICHGELS | Posted: Thursday, May 14, 2026 10:00 pm<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"Like fine wine: Hall of Famer Liz Johnson averages nearly 250 to lead after Day 1 of 2026 USBC Queens\" 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\/05\/1778831800_868_image.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Liz Johnson averaged nearly 250 to lead after the first round of the 2026 USBC Queens. Photo by USBC.<\/p>\n<p>When Liz Johnson won the 2025 USBC Senior Queens she joined Sandra Postma and Anne Marie Duggan as the only bowlers to win both the USBC Queens and USBC Senior Queens.<br \/>\nLast month, she made it two wins in two Senior Queens since turning 50 when she beat Lynda Barnes to take the 2026 USBC Senior Queens.<br \/>\nThose wins shouldn\u2019t be surprising for a Hall of Famer who many think is the greatest female bowler ever.<br \/>\nBut winning another USBC Queens as a senior player would be at least a mild&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"11thframe.comBowling&#8217;s digital daily newspaper delivering news, analysis and opinion.Like fine wine: Hall of Famer Liz Johnson averages nearly&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":232461,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[9,24,63,122,124,123],"class_list":["post-232460","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-queens","tag-queens-headlines","tag-queens-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232460","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=232460"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232460\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/232461"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=232460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=232460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=232460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}