World Champion

The PBA Jr. World Series of Bowling II ran five days at Thunderbowl Lanes in Allen Park. Three pattern championships opened the week, each with its own qualifying and match play, then the PBA Jr. World Championship closed it out across a two-pattern Advancers Round, two rounds of match play, a position round, and a stepladder final. Cumulative pinfall carried through, so the entire week added up to a single running total.

Arryn was the No. 1 seed on every qualifying pattern, finished 3rd on the O'Neill and 2nd on the McEwan, then won the Tackett Championship outright on Day 3 for the first of his two titles that week. He then led the World Championship wire to wire. He banked a lead so large that a rough 1-7 match-play stretch could not dislodge him, entered the stepladder as the top seed, and answered with a 256 in the title match to become the 2026 PBA Jr. World Champion.

Monday, June 8, on the 36-foot O'Neill: six games of qualifying, then a top-eight bracket of two-game total-pinfall matches.

Arryn qualified 1st of 10 with 1,328, 38 pins ahead of Jett Kramer, closing with 265 and 235. In the bracket he beat No. 8 seed Alexander Eby 440 to 415, then lost the semifinal to No. 5 seed Bennett Burkhardt 431 to 418. Burkhardt won the title over Kramer, 450 to 411, and Arryn finished 3rd.

Tuesday, June 9, on the 41-foot McEwan. Arryn and Jett Kramer tied for the qualifying lead at 1,389, and Arryn took the No. 1 seed after closing with 248, 257 and 258. Twelve games into the week, his cumulative lead over Kramer was still 38 pins.

In the bracket he beat No. 8 seed Bennett Burkhardt 455 to 322 and No. 4 seed Alexander Eby 434 to 385, then lost the final to No. 3 seed Liam Justiniano 527 to 355, and finished 2nd.

Wednesday, June 10, on the 44-foot Tackett. Arryn qualified 1st with 1,402, 58 pins ahead of Bennett Burkhardt, opening with a 268. After all eighteen pattern-day games his cumulative lead for the week was 237 pins over Jett Kramer.

In the bracket he beat No. 8 seed Timmy Tatulinski 428 to 360, No. 5 seed Kramer 442 to 424 and No. 2 seed Burkhardt 438 to 413 in the final, leading after the first game of all three matches, for the Tackett Championship and his third PBA Jr. title.

Thursday, June 11. The World Championship opened with an eight-game Advancers Round across the 46-foot Crawley and the 39-foot Lavoie, added to the eighteen pattern-day qualifying games. Arryn bowled 1,797, 1st in the round, with seven of the eight games at 205 or better, and after 26 games he led the division by 494 pins at 5,916.

The top eight advanced to match play: one game per match, 30 bonus pins for a win. In round 1 Arryn lost to Jett Kramer, Liam Justiniano and Bronson Jones and beat Owen Burich, going 1-3, and finished the day 432 pins ahead of Bennett Burkhardt.

Friday, June 12. Round 2 went 0-3, with losses to Frankie A Katz Jr 205 to 176, Bennett Burkhardt 176 to 170 and Alexander Eby 201 to 159. In the position round, 1st against 2nd, Liam Justiniano beat him 224 to 197.

Across the two days of match play he went 1-7, the worst record in the top five, and still entered the stepladder as the No. 1 seed at 7,401, 189 pins ahead of Burkhardt.

Arryn waited at the top as the No. 1 seed while the ladder played out below him. Bennett Burkhardt, the No. 2 seed, beat Liam Justiniano 200 to 173 to reach him, and Arryn answered with the best game of the entire ladder.

A 256 in the title match, a 36-pin margin, the biggest number of the finals thrown when the only game that crowns a champion was in front of him.

Event totals include match-play bonus pins and carry forward across the week. The stepladder is a separate one-game-per-match final.

A world title is the headline, but the way it was won is the story. Arryn finished 3rd on the O'Neill, beaten by Bennett Burkhardt in the semifinal, then 2nd on the McEwan, beaten by Liam Justiniano in the final, then flipped it on Day 3 by being the one putting up the numbers when it mattered and winning the Tackett Championship. He was the best qualifier in the field on all three patterns, which built a cushion no one else in the division could match.

That cushion was the whole point. The last two days of match play did not fall his way, a 1-7 stretch that would have buried most bowlers, and the work he banked early kept him at No. 1 through all of it. Then, with the title on the line and Bennett Burkhardt fresh off a ladder win to reach him, he threw his best game of the week. Leading wire to wire, surviving the rough patch, and closing under pressure is the complete week, and it is what makes this a champion's run rather than a hot day.

Huge thanks to coach Michael Sinek, whose work all week put Arryn in position to win, and to everyone who tuned in on BowlTV, sent messages, and pulled for him from afar. The support carried all the way to the lanes.

Three PBA Jr. titles in three months, and now a World Championship to go with them.