Lear, Groves to square off in Rahm finals

BUCYRUS — The second weekend of the 55^th Bill Rahm was completed on Sunday at Suburban Lanes and the finalists are set for this Saturday.

In the winners’ bracket on Saturday, Dave Shock got by Jo Metz, 859-760. Mike Lear rolled a 1002 series — including a 300 game — to down Curtis Groves who finished with 872.

In the losers’ bracket, Rick McWaters defeated Joe Powers, 859-781 and Butch Pangallo knocked off Skip Heimlich, 930-790.

Powers and Heimlich were eliminated from the field.

In the second session on Saturday, there were two losers’ bracket matches. Metz slipped past Pangallo, 868-835, and Groves won big over McWaters, 970-702. Pangallo and McWaters were dropped from the field.

In Sunday’s winners’ bracket, Lear defeated Shock, 991-825. In the losers’ bracket, Groves bested Metz, 935-859, dropping Metz from the field.

In the second session losers’ bracket on Sunday, Groves and Shock tied at 891-891, forcing a fifth game roll-off. Groves beat Shock, 244-218, to win the five-game series 1135-1109 and eliminated Shock.

Lear, out of the winners’ bracket, will face Groves, who came out of the losers’ bracket, in the championship on Saturday. If Groves wins the four-game series, a one-game roll-off will decided the champion.

Shock finished third, Metz was fourth, McWaters came in fifth and Pangallo was sixth out of the original 16-man field.

The finals begin at 1 p.m. at Suburban Lanes.