PWBA Finals Predictions

By S. Samek

This is it folks, the PWBA season is coming to an end. All the stands in the way is the season ending Tour championship event. The 16 best from the tour go at it one more time for the ultimate in bragging rights. September 3-6 2017 at Richmond Race Way. The selections came from all the tournament winners and the season points list.

The matches are in a bracket format and best of five single elimination. Liz Johnson the player of the year by points is top seed. She earns byes into the semi-finals along with second seed Kelly Kulick. Third ranked Diana Zavjalova and forth ranked Danielle McEwan also receive a bye each. In round one fifth seeded Shannon O’Keefe battles 16 seed Birgit Poppler. Six seed Shannon Pluhowsky goes against 15 seed Stefanie Johnson. Other matches can be viewed in the bracket.

I don’t predict many if any upsets here. I can see a Liz Johnson versus Kelly Kulick final match for it all. Though I also won’t be surprised if the three, or four seeds advance to the finals too. My money would be on Zavjalova to beat Kulick, over McEwan over Johnson. Though for a total wild card try Stefanie Johnson. She beat Liz in a recent match on her way to the Orlando open win. Other than that, look for upsets to be kept to a minimum. Stay tuned to see who brings home the gold.