Dave Wodka of Chatsworth, CA has emerged as top qualifier in the Tour Qualifying Round (TQR) of the One A Day PBA Earl Anthony Memorial Wednesday at Earl Anthony’s Dublin Bowl in Dublin, CA for the second consecutive year. Wodka averaged 225.14 for seven games to pace the 13 players who will advance to the tournament’s Round of 64 on Thursday.

Wodka, a former Lumber Liquidators PBA Tour exempt player who won his only PBA Tour title in the 1999 Greater Detroit Open, finished the seven-game TQR with a 1,576 total, 41 pins ahead of Jon Brandon of Santa Clarita, CA. The 13 players who advanced out of the TQR will join 50 members of the Lumber Liquidators PBA Tour and Wayne Garber of Modesto, CA, who was granted a PBA Commissioner’s Exemption for the event, for 14 qualifying games Thursday.

After leading the TQR last year, Wodka finished in 56th place. He hopes to improve his standing this year. “I’m hoping to have a little better showing this year,” he said. “I’d like to make the match play cut (top 32 after Thursday’s qualifying round) and go from there.

“I bowled really well in the PBA Tournament of Champions in Las Vegas last week, except for the first round,” he added. “I did the same thing in the World Series of Bowling early in the season. I made the wrong ball choices and adjustments, and couldn’t recover. I’d absolutely love to win another title.”

Competition continues Thursday with two seven-game Round of 64 rounds beginning at 10AM PST. The field will then be cut to 32 players for match play on Friday. After match play has concluded, the four players will be determined for the stepladder finals which will air live on ESPN2 this Sunday at 2PM EST or 11AM PST.