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Gentlemen of the BTC
 April 24, 2025

 

Well guys, bowling is down to just one more night. In the roll-offs, the A-Division will be That's Why Your There Tri-Star against Smokey's Bandits.  In the B-Division, it will be Ascend Wealth Planning against Oak Forest Bowl.  I wish all the teams good luck.

It's been a fun season, and I want to thank all the bowlers for bowling.  I hope you all had fun cause that's what it's all about. Also want to thank Keith for all he does and all the pot takers because that is not an easy job.  Thanks to Frank Reichenberger for the handicap, mystery and stay clean pots.  Jim Eppolito for blind doubles, Tim Magee for doubles and last game pot, Craig O'Reilly for Survivor pot, and Terry Conway for the corner pin.  And once again, Keith for stepping in when one of those guys were absent.  A Big Thank You to All.

Well, we almost kept the That's Why Your There guys out of the pots, but Paliga snuck in a couple.  Handicap saw the ageless wonder Gar Ward with a 262 in the first game tied by the young and handsome Guido.  In the second game, Mr. Paliga had a 284 and Mike Christophersen had a 280. Jeff Quilici had a 303 in the third game and Derrick Bay had a 287.

The Doubles saw Gar and Samoska Jr. with a 518 in the first game followed by Dinga and Samoska Jr's 504.  In the second game, Guido and Paliga had a 545 and Paliga & Eberling a 520.  The third game had Jeff Quilici and Les Swintek with a 547 and Tony A and Derrick Bay a 542.  In the Blind Doubles, Guido and Paliga had a 545 followed by Randy Samoska and Waldo with a 483.  Waldo and Tommy O had a 478.

The Survivor was won by Ben Tutka with a 271, Pete Lambros a 267, and Jeff Dinga a 240.  The last game pot was won by yours truly with a 267, Kenny Wis a 265 and Jeff Dinga a 240.  There were no mystery pot winners and Kenny Wis won the corner pin on only the third roll of the day.

My buddy Waldo was 2 for 3 on 7 pins and I was, believe it or not, 4 for 4 on ten pins making me 66 out of 107 for the season.  I am not counting next week so I finish the season at just over 62%.  Not good, but I am still not getting a spare ball.

Andy Zilis is back in the hospital with heart problems.  Could be looking at a transplant so let's hope for the best for him and Gary Foster who is having back surgery today.

 

Your secretary,

DJ

 

P.S. Go Cubs Go! Hope we get to continue singing it a lot this year.

 

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Golf News:

We are getting close.  Just two weeks until The Builders Tee Club is back on the golf course.

We will be kicking off our BTC golf season on May 6th at Silver Lake.  It will be a 10:00 shotgun start followed by a dinner in the Silver Lake Banquet Hall after golf (approximately 3:30).  All BTC members in good standing and applicants are welcome to attend the dinner even if you don’t golf that day.

If you plan on golfing on opening day please call the BTC golf hotline (708) 888-1355 and let us know that you will be golfing.  Please indicate in your message the members of your foursome if you have one.  Let us know also if you have a twosome or a threesome “don’t be nasty”.

In a couple of days we will be publishing the 2025 golf rules.  There aren’t a lot of changes but there are a few so definitely take a look.  I will be sending the new rules out in an email, and they will be published on our website builderstee.com

We will also be emailing and publishing the adjusted handicaps and A & B division breakdowns for opening day golf.  When we send an email separate from the weekly newsletter it will come from Anthony Serritella BTC or anthony@whogoes.net.  Please add anthony@whogoes.net to your address book so that golf emails don’t end up in your junk or spam folders. 

As always, if anyone has any questions you can reach out to Scott Lee (312) 340-4171 or Anthony Serritella (630) 430-5742.  Call us any time.  We will be happy to hear from you and answer your questions.

Your 2025 Golf Guys,                                                                                                                           

 Scott Lee and Anthony Serritella 

 

Tennis Report – Al Baldermann

 

The 2nd round of the playoffs went without a hitch, except for a blown-out knee.

 

Next week the final round. The championship matches are as follows:

                                                            Wins    Games

Match for 1st Place

Cleary/Schaefer                                   6          25

Verses

Abramowicz/Clark                              5          23

 

Match for 3rd Place                

Kahlhammer/Bewley/Heraty               4          19

Verses

Johnson/DiNolfo                                 4          17

 

Match for 5th Place

Darabaris/Schroeder                            3          17

Verses

Baldermann/Kosek                              3          13

 

Match for 7th Place

Ganz/Reschke                                     2          15

Verses

Rollins/Anderson                                1          11

 

The format for the playoffs is regular sets, first to 6 by 2. Best 2 out of 3 sets.

 

Next week, 4/29 we are going to Social 45 on LaGrange Rd. for our tennis banquet at 7:00pm. BTC has generously provided $400.00 toward our event (thanks Anthony). Everyone is welcome.

 

 

Bowling News

 

It has felt like a short bowling season this year, because it actually was as we only bowled 24 weeks (instead of the usual 26) as we lost 2 weeks due to not bowling on Christmas Eve, and New Years Eve. We are now down to our last week of bowling for the year, which will include our roll-off to name the 2024-2025 Builders Tee Champion! As a reminder all bowlers must have a minimum of 18 games bowled to be eligible to bowl in this week’s Championship Roll-offs. Congratulations to Tri-Star (“A” division) and Ascend Wealth Planning (“B” division) for winning the second half of their respective divisions this past week. They will join Smokey’s Bandits (“A” division) and Oak Forest Bowl (“B” division) the first half winner in the Championship Roll-offs. All teams not bowling in the Championship Roll-off will still be awarded $100 per team in sweeper money to bowl for this week. The 4 division winners will draw for their starting lane before bowling this week. The team with the most TOTAL PINS PLUS HANDICAP will be our 2024-2025 Champion with the other teams ranked in order by this formula as well for 2nd, 3rd, and 4th place. We will have our annual Awards Banquet at Beggars Pizza (127th & Kedzie) right after bowling this week.     

Some of our top Individual handicap series this week were:  John Guarnieri 744, Pete Lambros 742, Jeff Quilici 733, Mike Loye 725, Jim Musser 724, Bob Switek 719, Ben Tutka 717, Gar Ward 715, Jeff Dinga 712, Dennis Samoska Jr. 705, Willie Janda 704, John Race 698, John Paliga 694, Tony Alexander 693, Mike Seebock 691, John Heatter 690, Mike Christophersen 682, Roger Stewart 674, and Chuck Febel 671. Our top scratch performers this week were:  Dennis Samoska Jr. 244, and a 669 series, Tony Alexander 246, and a 666 series, John Paliga 267, and a 643 series, Craig O’Reilly 234, and a 640 series, Ken Wisniewski 256, and a 638 series, Dave Jenner 258, and a 635 series, John Guarnieri 225, 224, and a 633 series, Jeff Dinga 619 series, Willie Janda 224, and a 617 series, Jeff Quilici 257 game, Derrick Bay 248 game, Tom Ollenburger 247 game, Mike Loye 244 game, and Adam Valentinas 220 game.          

 

If you have any questions, or comments regarding the bowling league, please text or call me at 708-912-8831.

Keith Tadevich – Bowling Secretary

 

 

 

STANDINGS AND LANE ASSIGNMENTS

 

Lane Assignments 
Lanes 1 & 2 3 & 4 5 & 6 7 & 8 9 & 10 11 & 12
4/22/2025 12 vs. 8 4 vs. 3 TBD ** TBD ** 2 vs. 6 1 vs. 5
** Teams # 7, 9,10, and 11 are in Championship Roll-off and will draw for starting lanes before bowling! 
"A" Division Standings "B" Division
# Builders Tee Club W L YTD Won # Builders Tee Club W L YTD Won
9 Tri-Star 51 26 99 7 Ascend Wealth Planning 48 29 76
6 Creative Colors 44 33 82 11 Oak Forest Bowl 42 35 91
2 Beggars Pizza 43 34 92 3 Bright Metals 39 38 77
1 Arena Lanes 42 35 79 4 Band of Brothers 36 41 71
5 Traitors 36 41 73 8 Burr Oak Bowl 33 44 60
10 Smokey's Bandits 36 41 96          
Handicap 1st Game Doubles
Game 1 (tie) Gar Ward  262 1st Place  Gar Ward & 518
(tie) John Guarnieri 262 Dennis Samoska Jr. 
Game 2 John Paliga 284 2nd Place Jeff Dinga & 504
Mike Christophersen 280 Dennis Samoska Jr. 
Game 3 Jeff Quilici 303 2nd Game
Derrick Bay 287 1st Place  John Guarnieri & 545
John Paliga
Last Game Handicap
1st Place Dave Jenner 267 2nd Place John Paliga & 520
2nd Place Ken Wisniewski 265 Hal Eberling
3rd Place Jeff Dinga 240
3rd Game
Clean Pots 1st Place Jeff Quicili & 547
Forward Tony Alexander 4 Les Swintek
Reverse Dennis Samoska Jr.  27
2nd Place Tony Alexander & 542
Derrick Bay
Handicap Survivor
1st Place Ben Tutka 271 2nd Game Blind Doubles
2nd Place Pete Lambros 267 1st Place John Guarnieri & 545
3rd Place Jeff Dinga 240 John Paliga
2nd Place Randy Samoska & 483
Mike Seebock
3rd Place Tom Ollenberger & 478
Mike Seebock
Corner Pin Pot was won, after a unsuccesful attempts by Ken Wisniewski

 

 

 

49 Entered in Hole in One Club: Updated as of 4/19/25

Abramowicz, Ron Adreani, John Alexander, Tony Bondi, John
Botwinski, Wally Breier, Michael Chmelar, Ed Christophersen, Michael
Conners, Robert Conway, Terry Day, Jim Gramith, Larry
Guarnieri, John Hammond, Dwight Heraty, Dan Huddleston, Marvin
Janda, William Jenner, Dave Jesk, Terry Kampfert, Mike
Kaz, Lee Kennedy, Bob Kleinpaste, Paul Lambros, Pete
Lee, Scott Les, George Lewis, Greg McDermott, Jim
Miller, Ron Ollenburger, Tom Ostrowski, Steve Quilici, Jeff
Raymond, Dan Roberts, John Schlesser, Phil Schlesser, Tony
Schroeder, Rich Schwenn, Chuck Serritella, Anthony Stewart, Roger
Suntken, Ron Swintek, Les Tutka, Ben Vizdal, Bob
Voutiritsas, Nick Wilson, Tom Younus, Mo Zielinski, John
Zilis, Andy

The Following Persons Have Not Responded:

Baldermann, Al Banas, Gene Bay, Derrick Bazan, Ron
Bewley, Kevin Bonarigo, Joe Sr Boyle, John Brown, Jack
Bruno, Ray Bybee, Gary Byrnes, Roger Cahill, Chuck
Carioti, Frankie Carioti, Rick Carlstrom, Arnie Carter, Jack
Carter, Scott Cleary, Tom Darabaris, Mike Delano, John
Dempsey, Tim Dinga, Jeff Dinolfo, Chuck Downey, Dave
Dzierwa, Mike Eberling, Hal Elliot, Rob Eppolito, Jim
Eppolito, Joe Febel, Chuck Flanagan, Kevin Foster, Bill
Foster, Gary Fowler, Jim Franko, Don Furman, Frank
Gagnon, John Ganz, Mike Garetto, Larry Giovannetti, Randy
Grimes, Dan Heatter, Jack Janda, Matt Jasinski, Jerry
Johnson, Todd Kamin, Dick Kelly, Tom Kennedy, Kevin
Kerkstra, Dick Konopacz, Larry Kossman, Frank Krygowski, Tom
Lillwitz, Bill Lloyd, Larry Long, Robert Loye, Mike
Lyman, Dan Magee, Tim Maira, Gino Marino, Tom
McNamara, Mike Miller, Brian Moretti, Jim Musser, Jim
Oliva, Vince Paliga, John Parisi, Jack Pencak, Ken
Podlasek, Les Poteracki, Ken Race, John Radcliffe, Nelson
Reichenberger, Frank Reichenberger, Jim Reschke, Jim Rob, Corey
Rollins, Rob Rooks, Ed Rymsza, Joe Samoska, Dennis Sr
Samoska, Jack Samoska, Randy Schaefer, Bob Schiera, John
Schwenn, Dave Seebock, Michael Shinnick, Bob Skierkiewicz, Greg
Skonie, Tom Stanford, Bob Sutko, Mike Switak, Bob
Tadevich, Keith Tomkins, Dan Tomkins, Mike Van Henkelum, Pete
Ward, Gar Welsch, Bob Wisniewski, Ken

14 Declined to Enter Hole in One Club:

Anderson, Steve Annel, Vince Bandauski, Dale Crosby, Bart
Harwig, Ron Kern, Ed Klonowski, Gary Kogut, Ron
Melfi, Kelly Paoletti, Mike Pettrone, Charles Stradal, Richard
Van Eck, Jim Vardikos, Lou

7 Do Not Golf:

Borus, Don O'Connor, Robert O'Reilly, Craig Samoska, Dennis Jr.
Slusarczyk, Bill Valentinas, Adam Woodward, Dan Jr