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Harold Hughes opens 2020 Petersen with 1,589, just 10 pins shy of 2019 winning score

JEFF RICHGELS | Posted: Monday, June 29, 2020 4:00 pm
Harold Hughes opens 2020 Petersen with 1,589, just 10 pins shy of 2019 winning score
Michigan bowler Harold Hughes opened the 2020 Petersen Classic with 1,589 on Saturday, just 10 pins shy of Kenny Calkins III’s winning 1,599 last year. Photo by Petersen Classic.
Michigan bowler Harold Hughes opened the 2020 Petersen Classic with 1,589 on Saturday, just 10 pins shy of Kenny Calkins III’s winning 1,599 last year. That led to a predictable number of jokes about the Petersen walling them up this year. Confession: I was one of those jokesters. Seriously, the most interesting things about Hughes’ 8-game block is that he started with 256 and 235 and later rolled 215 and 227, giving him an impressive best four games of 933 and meaning his other...