Clinching his first PBA Senior Tour title after 5 titles on the regular tour over his career, an emotional Harry Sullins continued to wipe tears from his eyes during post-match interviews after defeating Hugh Miller for the Senior World Championship title, 222-192. For Sullins, no spot on earth could have been a more appropriate setting for a major PBA Senior Tour title than Detroit, the site of the PBA World Series of Bowling. Sullins is a member of the Detroit Bowling Hall of Fame and joins a host of other Michiganders who have seen success in the World Series of Bowling at Thunderbowl, including Saginaw's Tom Smallwood, Midland's Bo Goergen, Birch Run's Brian Waliczec and former Saginaw Valley State University stars Bill O'Neill, Anthony LaCaze and Dan MacLelland.

The PBA also crowned a champion in the Women's Series portion of the World Championship today as 2007 USBC Queens Champion Kelly Kulick defeated Team USA member Shannon Pluhowsky in the title match 219-204, earning a $15,000 top prize and a berth in the 2010 PBA Tournament of Champions. Pluhowsky posted a string of strikes in the second half of the match to force Kulick to get 8 pins on her first ball in the tenth frame. Kulick, the only woman ever to earn an exemption on the Lumber Liquidators PBA Tour, struck to clinch the title.