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Call it a heater or call it chemistry. Whatever it is, Andre Campos and Jade Frost have it figured out.

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Riding a 13-month surge that now includes three mixed doubles titles, the duo added another line to their growing résumé Sunday, rolling past a 71-team field at Victory Lanes in Decatur to win the Frank Vincent Memorial Tournament.

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Their latest win came six weeks after Campos and Frost teamed up to claim the Solid Pin Productions Mixed Doubles event at Potter’s Alley in Morton. 

 

Their title run began 13 months ago when they won the Peoria River City Bowling Association Mixed Doubles Tournament at Plaza Lanes in Washington. In that event, Campos opened with 23 straight strikes and an 853 series, while Frost added a 704 set to their winning total.

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“I think we have good chemistry and get along very well,” Campos said. “” We can keep each other in check after a bad shot and forget about it. We can also make ball selections for each other to try and get closer if we are lost.”

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Campos was not lost in the mixed doubles event. He opened the six games of qualifying with 225, 245 and 238, while Frost closed out an opening 653 set with a 277 in Game 3.

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In the second half, Campos got better each game. He rolled 248, 257 and 299, leaving a 4-pin on the final shot of an 804 series. Frost finished with a 610 for her last three games. Their 2,823 total was good enough for fourth place, earning them a bye in the first round of match play.

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“I made a lot of money on that last game,” Campos said. “We won high team game (for the second time), I won the high-game pot, passed a few people in high scratch series for the day and finished second, just missed winning all-events by seven pins to Josh Grove, and won all of the brackets I was alive in for the last three games.”

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Both Campos and Frost had been having success in 2026 coming into the tournament. Frost earned some national attention on February 26 when she put together games of 290, 300 and 299 for an 889 series – tying her for the second highest series by a female ever in USBC competition – by a single pin. It was the highest USBC-sanctioned three-game set ever rolled by a female left-hander.

 

Her big series broke the Peoria Association record (for men and women), set the house record (for men and women) at Potter’s Alley, and broke the Illinois women’s state record.

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Campos had rolled a pair of 300 games already this year, and the 804 at Victory Lanes was his second 800 in the past few weeks. Ironically, he rolled an 801 in another mixed doubles event, but he was not bowling with Frost. He finished second in the event bowling with Hailey Jepson.

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He also had a runner-up finish in a singles tournament in Monmouth to Mount Mercy all-American bowler Keegan Alexander and was on the winning mixed couples team in a recent tournament in Pekin.

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So, he and Frost were not strangers to facing strong competition and pressure on the lanes, even in a field that included PBA champions, PWBA champions, collegiate stars, Hall of Famers, and some of the top amateur bowlers in the region.

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Campos/Frost defeated Dan Marazzo and Bobbie Sweet, 485-472, in their opening match and then got past Phillip Watson and Melanie McDaniel, 479-461, in the semifinals. Watson and McDaniel had knocked off the qualifying leaders, Tony Recsnik and Lauren Russo, 419-400, in the Round of 8.

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In the title match, Campos and Frost faced the sixth-seeded duo of Kevin Magnuson and Mia Almedia, a pair of bowlers from the strong St. Ambrose University bowling program.

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Magnuson, a left-handed sophomore for the highly ranked Fighting Bees, uses a powerful two-handed delivery. He closed out qualifying with games of 198, 289 and 267 for a 754 set, and averaged right at 250 for his six qualifying games. He opened match play with a 300 in a 483-425 decision over Pro Shop Tony Schnack and Misty Tunyuck.

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Magnuson and Almedia, who was getting 33 pins of handicap a game, then eliminated Tim Behrendt and Jodi Oliver, 500-408, to advance to the championship match.

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The title match was not close. Campos and Frost, who averaged over 230 in match play, claimed the title, 503-425, over their teen opponents – who didn’t go down quietly.

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“We were getting a lot of chirping from them,” Campos said. “I was on a 279 pace when I left a 4-pin. The guy said, ‘You’re going to have to throw it better than that!’ Then Jade went light and tripped a 6-pin and slapped it off! It was a fun match!”

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Campos finished the day with a 251 average and went 90-clean for the event.

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His success had started on Saturday, however, in the second of thee doubles tournaments hosted by Gene and Janet Vincent in honor of Frank Vincent, Gene’s father. The tournaments are used every year to raise money for the awareness of Alzheimer’s disease.

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Campos teamed with AJ Fair in the Open Doubles Tournament, which also attracted 71 teams.

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“I told Andre at the start of the day that we needed to each average 230 and we’re in,” Fair said. “Sure enough, we did that right on the nose!”

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Fair totaled 1,381 and Campos 1,380 – a 230 average for both – for their six qualifying games and advanced to the 12-team match play portion of the event in eighth place.

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They edged Mike McWethy and Collin Howe, 415-402, in their opening match, and then had to face the intimidating top-seeded team of PBA and USBC Hall of Fame bowler Pete Weber, one of the all-time bowling greats, and his partner John Marsala, a two-time winner on the PBA50 Tour.

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The super seniors dominated qualifying, finishing more than 80 pins ahead of the field. Weber averaged 250 and Marsala 244 to earn a first-round bye.

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But their high scores did not carry over into match play. Campos and Fair won the encounter rather easily, 424-348.

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“Pete told the tournament director that the next time two super seniors lead a tournament, don’t let them sit for an hour before bowling again,” laughed Campos. “Weber missed a 10-pin and Marsala missed a 7-pin back-to-back, and that kind of helped us pull away at the end.”

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In the semifinals, Campos and Fair lost to eventual champions Darin Bloomquist and Phillip Watson, 452-385, ending their run in a tie for third place.

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Bloomquist and Watson defeated second-seeded Chris Ray and Kenny Renfro in a tight title match, 460-454, for the win.

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In the women’s doubles event on Friday, the duo of Amanda Warwick and Mollie Malone led the 21-team field by more than 120 pins in qualifying, and then successfully defended their title.

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They bowled matching 245 games and defeated Brooke Peratt and Tammy Walsh, 501-466 (including 11 pins of handicap), in the championship match.

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It was the fourth title in five years for Warwick and Malone.

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The year that they didn’t win, 2024, Frost teamed with frequent doubles partner Katey Furze to claim the title.

So, the mixed doubles title with Campos was the second win in the Frank Vincent events for Frost.

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“We got it done this year, and we’re going to keep it rolling with more wins!” she said. 

 

The way Frost and Campos have been bowling together lately, there is little reason to doubt that they will continue their winning ways in mixed events.

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