Bowling: Brian LeClair fends off Pete Weber in PBA Senior U.S. Open qualifying

Pete Weber made a big charge to the top of the PBA Senior U.S. Open leaderboard after Monday morning's qualifying, but Brian LeClair maintained the top spot.

Weber averaged 254.6 per game in his group of seven qualifying rounds on Monday, which put him in first place. However, LeClair came back in the afternoon to finish with a narrow lead to conclude the qualifying rounds.

LeClair totaled 3,400 pins (an average of 242.86 per game) in his 14 total qualifying games to take the lead. Weber was behind him at 3,358 (239.86 average).

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Amleto Monacelli finished qualifying in third place, followed by Tom Adcock and Tom Hess.

After LeClair bowled the lone perfect game on Sunday, Gary Alstott and Bill Nichols had their own 300 games on Monday. Alstott's propelled him to 16th place overall. Nichols, meanwhile, followed his 300 with a 157, just outside of position to move to Tuesday's first round of match play.

The top 24 bowlers advance to Tuesday's match play, which begins at 1 p.m. The second and third rounds will be played on Wednesday prior to the stepladder finals at 6:30 p.m.

Here are the 24 bowlers who have advanced to match play.

Bowler, Total Pins (Qualifying Rounds)

Brian LeClair, 3,400

Pete Weber, 3,358

Amleto Monacelli, 3,318

Tom Adcocok, 3,188

Tom Hess, 3,186

Dino Castillo, 3,183

Lennie Boresch Jr., 3,175

Jack Jurek, 3,169

James Campbell, 3,160

Mark Sullivan, 3,142

Bryan Goebel, 3,118

Chris Barnes, 3,108

Chris Warren, 3,104

Walter Ray Williams Jr., 3,084

Pete McCordic, 3,079

Gary Alstott, 3,078

Rick Schissler, 3,075

Dan Knowlton, 3,070

Walt Blackston, 3,065

Adam Monks, 3,063

Tom Carter, 3,048

Warren Eales, 3,045

Pete Thomas, 3,035

This article originally appeared on Lubbock Avalanche-Journal: Bowling: Brian LeClair fends off Pete Weber in PBA Senior U.S. Open qualifying