Player of Year contender Sean Rash makes 8-man TV finals at Japan Cup

Sean Rash has a chance to make a semi-major statement in the 2012-13 PBA Player of the Year race. Rash on Friday made the 8-player TV finals of the Round1 Japan Cup, while fellow POY contenders Jason Belmonte lost in match play. The Japan Cup is a high-paying pretigious tournament that ranks somewhere below the majors and somewhere above the run-of-the-mill PBA Tour event. The bracket finals line up with Tommy Jones against E.J.  Tackett, Chris Barnes against Japan’s Kazuaki Watana...