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Jason Belmonte wins 2023 PBA Super Slam Cup, E.J. Tackett’s consolation prizes include an unofficial slice of PBA history with TV 300

JEFF RICHGELS | Posted: Sunday, May 21, 2023 6:00 pm
Jason Belmonte wins 2023 PBA Super Slam Cup, E.J. Tackett’s consolation prizes include an unofficial slice of PBA history with TV 300
Jason Belmonte with the spoils after winning the 2023 PBA Super Slam Cup. Photo by PBA.
In a championship round where strikes were by far the dominant feature, E.J. Tackett earned a piece of unofficial PBA Tour history with a perfect game to win the semifinal match, though he went on to lose the title match to Jason Belmonte, who nearly fired a 300 of his own. There have been 34 perfect games on TV in PBA Tour title events, with the last two by Kyle Troup and Jason Belmonte in separate shows of the final day of the 2022 PBA Tour Finals, as I detailed in this story. Tackett’s...