RENO, Nev. - After an emotional team event that left them just shy of the Regular Team lead at the United States Bowling Congress Open Championships, the members Junior Team USA Support 1 of Mansfield, Texas, refused to settle for another close call at the National Bowling Stadium.

The group returned to the lanes for doubles and singles Monday morning focused on setting a Team All-Events number that would be hard to match, and they finished with a 10,247 total, the 10th-highest in USBC Open Championships history. Team Tilt of Lawrence, Kan., the 2008 Regular Team winner, previously held the lead this year with 10,065. The Team All-Events record is 10,425, set by Pollard's Bowl of Versailles, Ind., at the 1996 tournament in Salt Lake City.

"It's pretty amazing," said former Team USA member and Junior Team USA Support 1 captain Erik Vermilyea, who helped his team into second place Sunday with a 3,521 total. "From the first ball of doubles today, we were focused on Team All-Events. We were helping each other out all day."

Heading into their last game of singles, Vermilyea and his teammates were aware they had a shot at the lead, but they wanted to raise the bar as high as possible.

"The doubles and singles pattern is a little bit harder than the team pattern, and you really have to commit to playing further out," said Vermilyea, who moved into fifth place in Regular Singles with a 751 series. "You have to grind it out and just make great shots early on and really stay patient. We hung in there and bowled OK the first two games and didn't hurt ourselves. Once it started to open up, we made the right moves and communicated. We just made great shots and fed off each other, and that last game was just awesome."

Vermilyea, a 29-year-old right-hander and Sport Bowling Manager for USBC, led the final surge with a 290 game and was followed by Professional Bowlers Association Tour champion Anthony LaCaze (256), Steve Novak, a two-time All-American and collegiate national champion at Saginaw Valley State University (249) and former Junior Team USA member Jeffrey Mersch (205).

That left Matthew Tuckfield, who was bowling one pair to the right, to finish the job. He needed just 58 pins in his final game to get Junior Team USA Support 1 into the top spot. After watching Tuckfield shoot 300 on the challenging lane condition at the 2012 Open Championships in Baton Rouge, La., his teammates had little doubt he'd get what they needed and more.

"We knew going in that we were going to be done at least a game ahead of him, and we wanted to take as much pressure off of him as we could," said Novak, a nine-time Open Championships participant, who teamed with LaCaze to move into a tie for fifth place in Regular Doubles with a 1,366 total Monday. "I think we did a pretty good job of that as a group, shooting 1,000 between the four of us the sixth game."

Novak led the way for Junior Team USA Support 1 with a 2,153 all-events effort, which is good for third place in Regular All-Events. He was followed by Vermilyea (2,097), LaCaze (2,050), Tuckfield (2,046) and Mersch (1,901). Two-time Open Championships titlist John Janawicz leads Regular All-Events with 2,169.

Monday's success was bittersweet for Vermilyea, who got to watch his wife, former Team USA member Amanda Vermilyea, throw the final shot of her competitive bowling career. She has been plagued by neck and back problems, and it still is painful for her to compete.

"Amanda had surgery a while back, and it cured a lot of problems, but bowling still always hurt her," Vermilyea said. "We were blessed with having P.J. seven months ago, and that's been amazing, but it's also been a little tough on Amanda's back. Coming back to bowling afterward is hurting her a lot, so we decided she's going to wrap it up after this. To watch her throw the last three in the 10th, with a messenger on the last shot, was pretty special."

The two met at a bowling tournament when Erik was 12 years old, went to the University of Nebraska together and both eventually took jobs with USBC, now in Arlington, Texas.

"We owe everything to bowling, and it has been phenomenal to us," Erik said. "It has given us our careers, our livelihood and basically our son, since bowling brought us together. To see it end is sad, but we've gotten so much out of it."

Amanda Vermilyea was a member of Team USA (2005-07) and Junior Team USA (2003-06) and earned more than a dozen gold medals in international competition. She was an NCAA women's national champion at the University of Nebraska in 2004 and 2005 and was named the 2005 NCAA Women's National Collegiate Bowling Championships Most Valuable Player. She also was named the 2007 NCAA Division I Player of the Year.

This year at the Open Championships, she shot 592 in singles, 562 in team and 532 in doubles for a 1,686 all-events total. She'll head into her hiatus with a career average of 194 in four tournament appearances.

"It was hard walking out of the hotel room to bowl this morning because we knew it might be the last time she does that," Erik said. "We knew we had a good shot at Team All-Events, but there was a long road ahead of us. We dug deep all day to take the lead the way we did, and to be able to share it with Amanda and have her right next to me, and then watch her throw the last three shots, was incredible."

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