STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — Qualifying begins Saturday in the 50th Annual New Year Singles Classic at Rab\u2019s Country Lanes at 1 p.m.<\/p>\n
Tournament director Jim Elliott said the first squad — which offers a second entry at no cost \u201cis almost full and then I will start a waiting list.\u201d<\/p>\n
Previous winners entered in the opening squad are Joe Lampariello, Tim McAuliffe Jr., Don Pendleton, Red Baranello, Rob Vinci and six-time champ George Cretella.<\/p>\n
A second qualifier will take place Saturday at 2:30 p.m. Qualifying continues Sunday at 1 and 2:30 and Jan. 10-11, 2026 at the same times. <\/p>\n
The Top-24 finals in the borough\u2019s longest running open bowling event will be contested Jan. 17 at 3 p.m. <\/p>\n
The top two from each squad move into the finals as well as the next eight highest three-game rollers. <\/p>\n
The entry fee is $60. The format consists of bowling three games across six lanes. Handicap is 70 percent of a 220 average.<\/p>\n
The finals are scratch.<\/p>\n
Jeff Scire will be gunning for his third straight crown. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — Qualifying begins Saturday in the 50th Annual New Year Singles Classic at Rab\u2019s Country…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":62822,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[9,24,63,134,136,135],"class_list":{"0":"post-85986","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-staten-island","8":"tag-new-york","9":"tag-new-york-city","10":"tag-nyc","11":"tag-staten-island","12":"tag-staten-island-headlines","13":"tag-staten-island-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85986","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=85986"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85986\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62822"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}