SPARE NOTES: No Surprise, EJ Tackett The PBAs BestBATON ROUGE - When Jason Belmonte was winning multiple Player of the Year honors a decade ago, everyone thought the two-hander from Australia was the best to ever play the game. Tackett claimed his fourth career and third consecutive Chris Schenkel PBA Player of the Year honor in dominant fashion, receiving 86.5% of the vote among PBA members and media, announced on Friday. Tackett joins Earl Anthony (1974-76, 1981-83), Mark Roth (1977-79), Walter Ray Williams Jr. (1996-98) and Belmonte (2013-15) as the fifth player to win three consecutive Player of the Year honors. Tackett set new PBA records by advancing to the championship round in six consecutive title events and seven consecutive singles title events. It came down to Anderson and Westyn Griffin, who advanced in the Open Classic division, in the final rolloff.