BATON 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.

Now they are saying the same thing about EJ Tackett in 2025.

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.

Andrew Anderson and Ethan Fiore each received 6% of the vote. Belmonte, Graham Fach, Jesper Svensson and Chris Via were also nominated.

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’s 2025 season, b

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