Furukawa, Mitskavich set scoring records as U22 Masters and U22 Queens head to match play
May 24, 2026
Melia Mitskavich of DuBois, Pennsylvania (left), and Aidan Furukawa of Sunbury, Ohio, established new 14-game scoring records in their respective divisions at Boardwalk Bowl in Orlando, Florida, on Saturday and finished as this year's qualifying leaders at the 2026 U22 Masters and U22 Queens. Furukawa finished the first two rounds of U22 Masters qualifying with a two-day, 14-game mark of 3,231 (a 230.8 average) while Mitksavich paced the U22 Queens field with a total of 3,202 (a 228.7 average).
QUEENS QUALIFYING RESULTS
QUEENS JR TEAM USA QUALIFYING RESULTS
QUEENS BRACKETS
MASTERS RESULTS
MASTERS TEAM USA QUALIFYING RESULTS
MASTERS BRACKETS
ORLANDO, Fla. – Aidan Furukawa of Sunbury, Ohio, and Melia Mitskavich of DuBois, Pennsylvania, remained atop the standings in their respective divisions and did so in record-setting fashion Saturday at the 2026 United States Bowling Congress U22 Masters and U22 Queens.
Furukawa, a 19-year-old two-handed righty, posted a 14-game total of 3,231 (a 230.7 average) for his two rounds of qualifying at Boardwalk Bowl, breaking the previous U22 Masters record of 2,992 set by Nate Trentler of Phoenix, Maryland, during last year’s event at Thunderbowl Lanes in Allen Park, Michigan (this year marks the third year for the U22 Masters and U22 Queens events).
Furukawa led qualifying by just 11 pins over Kevin Magnuson, of San Jose, California, and will enter double-elimination bracket match play as the No. 1 seed.
Mitskavich, a 20-year-old righthander who recently completed her sophomore season as part of Jacksonville State University’s title-winning Intercollegiate Team Championships squad, finished qualifying with a U22 Queens record 14-game total of 3,202 (a 228.7 average). Dannielle Henderson of Florissant, Missouri, set the previous record of 3,090 on her way to capturing the title at the inaugural event in 2024 at Thunderbowl.
Mitskavich, who also led after Round 1 of qualifying, was able to successfully navigate bowling on the fresh 44-foot U22 Queens oil pattern Saturday after competing on the burn on Friday.
“I started with a little bit of a stronger ball (compared to Friday) and freshened it up with some surface before I started,” Mitskavich said. “I thought about starting out a little more right of where I was yesterday, but I wasn’t sure how that would transition and I didn’t want to get myself in trouble. So, I ended up starting close to where I started yesterday, around 12-13, just with a stronger ball, and that worked well for me.”
Mitskavich used that strategy to propel her to scores of 216, 252, 216, 265, 235, 213 and 196 in Round 2 on her way to the scoring record.
“That’s pretty cool,” Mitskavich said when the record was mentioned to her. “Honestly, I wasn’t even thinking about that during the round. Towards the end of the day, I just wanted to bowl, have fun and throw some strikes, but that’s really cool to set the record.”
Mitskavich led qualifying by 53 pins over Katelyn Abigania of San Diego and, like Furukawa, will enter double-elimination bracket match play as the No. 1 seed.
“All the pins I knocked down before, that doesn’t really matter,” Mitskavich said. “It’s a nice confidence booster, but now it’s about shifting focus to these two-game matches and getting all the pins you can get in those two games.”
Abigania, who just completed her freshman season at Vanderbilt, was also second to Mitskavich after Round 1 and held that spot at the end of qualifying with a pinfall of 3,149 (a 224.9 average).
Rounding out the top five after qualifying were Gianna Brandolino of Channahon, Illinois (3,145); Victorya White of Wentzville, Missouri (3,141); and defending champion Aleesha Oden of Council Bluffs, Iowa (3,138).
Brandolino (Jacksonville State), White (North Carolina A&T) and Oden (Wichita State) are all college standouts. Brandolino joins Abigania as current members of both Team USA and Junior Team USA while White, a two-handed right-hander, joins Mitskavich as current Junior Team USA members.
Only the top 24 in the U22 Queens advance to Sunday’s match play competition. Emma Siekierski of Davison, Michigan, and Amanda Lang of nearby Oviedo, Florida, tied for 23rd with a pinfall of 2,854 (a 203.9 average) to claim the final spots for U22 Queens match play.
In U22 Masters action, Furukawa was rock solid yet again on Saturday en route to the tournament’s 14-game scoring record, authoring games of 216, 258, 245, 192, 223, 225 and 207 during Round 2 on the fresh 44-foot 2026 U22 Masters oil pattern.
The 192 during Game 4 is the only sub-200 score the 2023 Junior Gold Championships U18 Boys champ has recorded thus far at Boardwalk Bowl. It was merely a speedbump, however, as Furukawa still managed to breeze past the old U22 Masters qualifying record and keep Magnuson in second place.
Furukawa didn’t come to Orlando this week with records on his mind; nevertheless, he was proud of the accomplishment.
“It feels great to have my name in the record book for however long it lasts,” Furukawa said. “I’m sure someone will break it, but it feels nice to know that I’ll have that for at least a little bit. Still, I just hope I can keep the momentum going.”
Joining Furukawa and Magnuson in the U22 Masters qualifying top five were Jacob Bockstie of Cedar Rapids, Iowa (3,135); Jaysen Spanbauer of Fond du Lac, Wisconsin (3,102); and Gregorio (Bud) Sicard of Milwaukie, Oregon (3,089).
Daniel Lynn of Lake Wales, Florida, didn’t reach the top five. What he did, however, was secure the 32nd and final spot in this year’s U22 Masters match-play bracket.
Lynn earned that berth by coming in with a two-day, 14-game qualifying total of 2,932 (a 209.4 average). His reward will be an opening-round matchup against Furukawa on Sunday morning.
Even though Furukawa finished nearly 300 pins ahead of Lynn during qualifying, the duo will be dead even at the start of their two-game, total pinfall match in Round 1. As such, Furukawa isn’t about to take his opening-round opponent, or anyone else, lightly.
“I’ve got to keep the same mentality that I’ve had all week, which is to stay as aggressive as I can, keep the momentum going and hope the pins fall my way,” Furukawa said. “I tend to kick it into a second gear in match play, but I’m not going to get thinking too much on that; I’m just going to keep trying to control what I can control.”
Furukawa has controlled both the fresh and burn masterfully thus far at Boardwalk Bowl, and, on Saturday, he did so by employing something of an unorthodox strategy.
“The first two games today, I actually threw it on the left side of the lane,” the right-handed Furukawa said. “Once that went away, I went back to the right side. I spent the first half of the block pretty much doing what I did yesterday, and then I just wanted to play around with a couple things to figure out what I could do going into tomorrow.”
As Furukawa looks to do something he’s never done before by winning a U22 title, the tournament’s two reining champs will attempt to work their way back into the winner’s circle in their respective divisions.
Oden will try to successfully defend her U22 Queens title as the No. 5 seed for match play as two-time and defending U22 Masters champion Brandon Bohn of Lake Wales, Florida, tries to improve his position from eighth at the start of bracket action to No. 1 by the time the final balls are thrown on Monday afternoon.
Bohn started Saturday in 60th place in the U22 Masters field but recovered nicely by rolling the best score in Round 2 (1,617) to easily qualify as the No. 8 seed for match play.
With qualifying now complete, match play in both events will begin Sunday morning at 10 a.m. Eastern at Boardwalk Bowl.
All matches in both tournaments will be two games with total pinfall determining the winner. A player will be eliminated from the competition upon losing his or her second match.
Five rounds of matches will be contested on Sunday with just the top eight players in each event surviving and advancing to the final day of competition on Monday.
Three additional rounds of matches will take place on Monday morning beginning at 9 a.m. Eastern, after which just three players in each field will remain in contention for the 2026 U22 Masters and U22 Queens titles.
Those bowlers will advance to the finals, which will be streamed live on BowlTV from Boardwalk Bowl on Memorial Day starting at 2 p.m. Eastern. The U22 Queens title will be awarded first with the U22 Masters finals set to begin approximately 45 minutes thereafter.
Because the finals will not be broadcast live on national television, each event’s top seed will have to be defeated twice during the finals in order to be denied the title.
All athletes competing in this year’s tournaments will be hoping to walk away with their event’s title and first-place trophy.
However, while winning will be top priority for all competitors, titles and trophies won’t be the only thing on the line during the U22 Masters and U22 Queens.
Athletes competing in Orlando this week have extra incentive to author their best performances as the USBC Team USA Athlete Advisory Council has approved a total of eight spots on Junior Team USA to top finishers at the 2026 U22 Masters and U22 Queens.
The AAC, which is made up of current or former tenured Team USA athletes, supported that berths on Junior Team USA 2027 will go to the top three age-eligible finishers after the qualifying rounds at both the U22 Masters and U22 Queens and to each tournament’s champion.
If the champion has already acquired a spot or is not age eligible, the fourth and final Junior Team USA position up for grabs at each event will be given to the next-highest age-eligible finisher after the qualifying rounds.
Age-eligible athletes will be those who have not reached their 21st birthday by Jan. 1, 2027.
All rounds of competition at both the U22 Masters and Queens will be streamed live exclusively on BowlTV.
CLICK HERE for more information on the 2026 U22 Masters and U22 Queens.
QUEENS QUALIFYING RESULTS
QUEENS JR TEAM USA QUALIFYING RESULTS
QUEENS BRACKETS
MASTERS RESULTS
MASTERS TEAM USA QUALIFYING RESULTS
MASTERS BRACKETS
ORLANDO, Fla. – Aidan Furukawa of Sunbury, Ohio, and Melia Mitskavich of DuBois, Pennsylvania, remained atop the standings in their respective divisions and did so in record-setting fashion Saturday at the 2026 United States Bowling Congress U22 Masters and U22 Queens.
Furukawa, a 19-year-old two-handed righty, posted a 14-game total of 3,231 (a 230.7 average) for his two rounds of qualifying at Boardwalk Bowl, breaking the previous U22 Masters record of 2,992 set by Nate Trentler of Phoenix, Maryland, during last year’s event at Thunderbowl Lanes in Allen Park, Michigan (this year marks the third year for the U22 Masters and U22 Queens events).
Furukawa led qualifying by just 11 pins over Kevin Magnuson, of San Jose, California, and will enter double-elimination bracket match play as the No. 1 seed.
Mitskavich, a 20-year-old righthander who recently completed her sophomore season as part of Jacksonville State University’s title-winning Intercollegiate Team Championships squad, finished qualifying with a U22 Queens record 14-game total of 3,202 (a 228.7 average). Dannielle Henderson of Florissant, Missouri, set the previous record of 3,090 on her way to capturing the title at the inaugural event in 2024 at Thunderbowl.
Mitskavich, who also led after Round 1 of qualifying, was able to successfully navigate bowling on the fresh 44-foot U22 Queens oil pattern Saturday after competing on the burn on Friday.
“I started with a little bit of a stronger ball (compared to Friday) and freshened it up with some surface before I started,” Mitskavich said. “I thought about starting out a little more right of where I was yesterday, but I wasn’t sure how that would transition and I didn’t want to get myself in trouble. So, I ended up starting close to where I started yesterday, around 12-13, just with a stronger ball, and that worked well for me.”
Mitskavich used that strategy to propel her to scores of 216, 252, 216, 265, 235, 213 and 196 in Round 2 on her way to the scoring record.
“That’s pretty cool,” Mitskavich said when the record was mentioned to her. “Honestly, I wasn’t even thinking about that during the round. Towards the end of the day, I just wanted to bowl, have fun and throw some strikes, but that’s really cool to set the record.”
Mitskavich led qualifying by 53 pins over Katelyn Abigania of San Diego and, like Furukawa, will enter double-elimination bracket match play as the No. 1 seed.
“All the pins I knocked down before, that doesn’t really matter,” Mitskavich said. “It’s a nice confidence booster, but now it’s about shifting focus to these two-game matches and getting all the pins you can get in those two games.”
Abigania, who just completed her freshman season at Vanderbilt, was also second to Mitskavich after Round 1 and held that spot at the end of qualifying with a pinfall of 3,149 (a 224.9 average).
Rounding out the top five after qualifying were Gianna Brandolino of Channahon, Illinois (3,145); Victorya White of Wentzville, Missouri (3,141); and defending champion Aleesha Oden of Council Bluffs, Iowa (3,138).
Brandolino (Jacksonville State), White (North Carolina A&T) and Oden (Wichita State) are all college standouts. Brandolino joins Abigania as current members of both Team USA and Junior Team USA while White, a two-handed right-hander, joins Mitskavich as current Junior Team USA members.
Only the top 24 in the U22 Queens advance to Sunday’s match play competition. Emma Siekierski of Davison, Michigan, and Amanda Lang of nearby Oviedo, Florida, tied for 23rd with a pinfall of 2,854 (a 203.9 average) to claim the final spots for U22 Queens match play.
In U22 Masters action, Furukawa was rock solid yet again on Saturday en route to the tournament’s 14-game scoring record, authoring games of 216, 258, 245, 192, 223, 225 and 207 during Round 2 on the fresh 44-foot 2026 U22 Masters oil pattern.
The 192 during Game 4 is the only sub-200 score the 2023 Junior Gold Championships U18 Boys champ has recorded thus far at Boardwalk Bowl. It was merely a speedbump, however, as Furukawa still managed to breeze past the old U22 Masters qualifying record and keep Magnuson in second place.
Furukawa didn’t come to Orlando this week with records on his mind; nevertheless, he was proud of the accomplishment.
“It feels great to have my name in the record book for however long it lasts,” Furukawa said. “I’m sure someone will break it, but it feels nice to know that I’ll have that for at least a little bit. Still, I just hope I can keep the momentum going.”
Joining Furukawa and Magnuson in the U22 Masters qualifying top five were Jacob Bockstie of Cedar Rapids, Iowa (3,135); Jaysen Spanbauer of Fond du Lac, Wisconsin (3,102); and Gregorio (Bud) Sicard of Milwaukie, Oregon (3,089).
Daniel Lynn of Lake Wales, Florida, didn’t reach the top five. What he did, however, was secure the 32nd and final spot in this year’s U22 Masters match-play bracket.
Lynn earned that berth by coming in with a two-day, 14-game qualifying total of 2,932 (a 209.4 average). His reward will be an opening-round matchup against Furukawa on Sunday morning.
Even though Furukawa finished nearly 300 pins ahead of Lynn during qualifying, the duo will be dead even at the start of their two-game, total pinfall match in Round 1. As such, Furukawa isn’t about to take his opening-round opponent, or anyone else, lightly.
“I’ve got to keep the same mentality that I’ve had all week, which is to stay as aggressive as I can, keep the momentum going and hope the pins fall my way,” Furukawa said. “I tend to kick it into a second gear in match play, but I’m not going to get thinking too much on that; I’m just going to keep trying to control what I can control.”
Furukawa has controlled both the fresh and burn masterfully thus far at Boardwalk Bowl, and, on Saturday, he did so by employing something of an unorthodox strategy.
“The first two games today, I actually threw it on the left side of the lane,” the right-handed Furukawa said. “Once that went away, I went back to the right side. I spent the first half of the block pretty much doing what I did yesterday, and then I just wanted to play around with a couple things to figure out what I could do going into tomorrow.”
As Furukawa looks to do something he’s never done before by winning a U22 title, the tournament’s two reining champs will attempt to work their way back into the winner’s circle in their respective divisions.
Oden will try to successfully defend her U22 Queens title as the No. 5 seed for match play as two-time and defending U22 Masters champion Brandon Bohn of Lake Wales, Florida, tries to improve his position from eighth at the start of bracket action to No. 1 by the time the final balls are thrown on Monday afternoon.
Bohn started Saturday in 60th place in the U22 Masters field but recovered nicely by rolling the best score in Round 2 (1,617) to easily qualify as the No. 8 seed for match play.
With qualifying now complete, match play in both events will begin Sunday morning at 10 a.m. Eastern at Boardwalk Bowl.
All matches in both tournaments will be two games with total pinfall determining the winner. A player will be eliminated from the competition upon losing his or her second match.
Five rounds of matches will be contested on Sunday with just the top eight players in each event surviving and advancing to the final day of competition on Monday.
Three additional rounds of matches will take place on Monday morning beginning at 9 a.m. Eastern, after which just three players in each field will remain in contention for the 2026 U22 Masters and U22 Queens titles.
Those bowlers will advance to the finals, which will be streamed live on BowlTV from Boardwalk Bowl on Memorial Day starting at 2 p.m. Eastern. The U22 Queens title will be awarded first with the U22 Masters finals set to begin approximately 45 minutes thereafter.
Because the finals will not be broadcast live on national television, each event’s top seed will have to be defeated twice during the finals in order to be denied the title.
All athletes competing in this year’s tournaments will be hoping to walk away with their event’s title and first-place trophy.
However, while winning will be top priority for all competitors, titles and trophies won’t be the only thing on the line during the U22 Masters and U22 Queens.
Athletes competing in Orlando this week have extra incentive to author their best performances as the USBC Team USA Athlete Advisory Council has approved a total of eight spots on Junior Team USA to top finishers at the 2026 U22 Masters and U22 Queens.
The AAC, which is made up of current or former tenured Team USA athletes, supported that berths on Junior Team USA 2027 will go to the top three age-eligible finishers after the qualifying rounds at both the U22 Masters and U22 Queens and to each tournament’s champion.
If the champion has already acquired a spot or is not age eligible, the fourth and final Junior Team USA position up for grabs at each event will be given to the next-highest age-eligible finisher after the qualifying rounds.
Age-eligible athletes will be those who have not reached their 21st birthday by Jan. 1, 2027.
All rounds of competition at both the U22 Masters and Queens will be streamed live exclusively on BowlTV.
CLICK HERE for more information on the 2026 U22 Masters and U22 Queens.