Fresh off finishing third with Brad Miller in the PBA-PWBA Xtra Frame Striking Against Breast Cancer Mixed Doubles — aka The Luci — in Houston the last weekend of July, Natalie Cortese won the 2017 Estrogen Open on Sunday at Poplar Creek Bowl in the Chicago suburb of Hoffman Estates,
Cortese led qualifying with 1,675, followed by Krystyna Frieders with 1,654, Summer Jasmin at 1,545, Katie Zwiefelhofer with 1,526, and Ashley Jackson at 1,516.
In the stepladder finals,...