{"id":152013,"date":"2026-03-30T03:23:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-30T03:23:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/152013\/"},"modified":"2026-03-30T03:23:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-30T03:23:07","slug":"memorial-bowling-tournament-held-in-scranton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/152013\/","title":{"rendered":"Memorial bowling tournament held in Scranton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The tournament honors a local bowler who died in a car accident in 2021.<\/p>\n<p>SCRANTON, Pa. \u2014 A memorial bowling tournament is underway today in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wnep.com\/section\/lackawanna-county\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Lackawanna County<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;The Friends of Phil&#8217; hosted its 4th annual &#8216;Phil Joe&#8217;s Memorial Youth Scholarship Tournament at Valley Lanes in Carbondale&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>The event awards scholarships in honor of 56-year-old Phillip Jones, an avid bowler from Scranton.<\/p>\n<p>Jones lost his life to a car accident back in 2021.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They&#8217;ve competed against 90 other bowlers from the surrounding states, so getting to this point in the competition is truly remarkable for them. There&#8217;s a lot of college scholarship money on the line, and there&#8217;s a lot of lessons to be learned, but this right here is the future of bowling,&#8221; said Tournament Director Cindy Grabowski.<\/p>\n<p>Congratulations to Gregory Masters, Liam Mulea, and Peyton Schley for winning their age divisions and being this year&#8217;s Memorial Youth Tournament winners.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The tournament honors a local bowler who died in a car accident in 2021. SCRANTON, Pa. \u2014 A&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":152014,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[178,180,179],"class_list":["post-152013","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-scranton","tag-scranton","tag-scranton-headlines","tag-scranton-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152013","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=152013"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152013\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/152014"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=152013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=152013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=152013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}