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Daria Pajak, Verity Crawley out for at least start of 2021 PWBA Tour due to visa renewal denials

JEFF RICHGELS | Posted: Saturday, January 9, 2021 4:00 pm
Daria Pajak, Verity Crawley out for at least start of 2021 PWBA Tour due to visa renewal denials
Verity Crawley, left, and Daria Pajak, right, at a PBA tournament in 2017. Photo from Crawley's Facebook page.
On July 18, 2017, Daria Pajak beat friend and former Webber International teammate Verity Crawley 224-203 to win the PWBA Greater Detroit Open, as I detailed in this story. Neither had won a PWBA Tour title to that point, and the win helped Pajak beat out Crawley for 2017 PWBA Tour Rookie of the Year. Now the two popular young players are together in a heartbreaking way, as they revealed that they have been denied visas that would have allowed them to compete in at least the start of the 2021...