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Rick Meneley comes up clutch to win 2024 South Point Senior Shootout Roto Grip Challenge after Tom Adcock gutters in 10th frame of title match

JEFF RICHGELS | Posted: Wednesday, November 13, 2024 11:00 pm
Rick Meneley comes up clutch to win 2024 South Point Senior Shootout Roto Grip Challenge after Tom Adcock gutters in 10th frame of title match
Rick Meneley, right, with tournament operator Ron Mohr, left, after Meneley won the 2024 South Point Senior Shootout Roto Grip Challenge. Photo by Phyllis Punturiero.
Anyone watching Wednesday’s title match of the 2024 South Point Senior Shootout Roto Grip Challenge may have had a flashback to Del Ballard’s stunning gutter ball to lose the 1991 PBA Fair Lanes Open, though it wasn’t the exact situation. Finishing first, Tom Adcock needed a double and a 2-count to lock out Rick Meneley. On the 35-foot pattern used for the Roto Grip Challenge, Adcock was swinging the ball from around 10-board at the arrows to near the gutter, but on his first...