3-time USBC Eagle winner Brian Waliczek takes lead at 2020 Petersen Classic with 1,627
JEFF RICHGELS | Posted: 8/15/2020, 1:00 PM

Potential future USBC Hall of Famer Brian Waliczek fired a 1,627 on Friday to take the lead at the 2020 Petersen Classic. Photo by Petersen Classic.
Brian Waliczek, a 3-time Eagle winner at the USBC Open Championships, fired a 1,627 on Friday to take the lead at the 2020 Petersen Classic at Brunswick Zone River Grove in suburban Chicago.
The prior leader was Harold Hughes, a fellow Michigan bowler who totaled 1,589 on the opening weekend of the 2020 Petersen, which was truncated by the COVID-19 pandemic.
The Petersen reported in this Facebook post that Waliczek started with a 174 that would be his low for the night before rolling 244, 235,...