Killian Kilpatrick took a 241-pin lead into the final round of the 61st Times-News Open and it seemed to be insurmountable and, as the 8 games played out …. it was. While the final margin of victory was 171, that was the smallest lead he held all day. He upped the lead to 311 after game 10 and it never fell below 200 until Michael Machuga defeated him in the final match game 192-278. It was just a matter of how much he would win by.

With the victory, Kilpatrick turned the tables on Machuga who defeated Kilpatrick in three consecutive tournaments from 2020 through 2022, two of those by more than 250 pins.

In only his 6th TN Tournaments, Kilpatrick has 5 top-3 finishes.