Things were so good for Scott Santos on Monday, even when he got stuck at the foul line and nearly fell, he still struck.

Santos defeated David Traber, 237-160, to win the 2007 PBA Lake County Indiana Regional Players Championship at Stardust Bowl II, his fourth career PBA Regional Tour title and first Major.

"I guess when it's your day..." Santos said after the strike in the ninth frame which clinched the win. Indeed, everything seemed to go Santos' way all day, including a key ball change in the Round of 8.

Santos admittedly did not bowl well in his Round of 64 and Round of 32 wins in which he averaged just 200.28 but went 7-0. He dropped the first game of his best-of-three-games Round of 16 match before coming back to win the next two games and advance to the Round of 8. At that point, Santos decided he needed to make a ball change, which resulted in four consecutive games of 235 or better to take home the title.

"I did not bowl well at all those first couple rounds. I don't know if it was that the high end of the house was tighter, but the ball wasn't coming off my hand clean," Santos (Ledyard, Conn.) said. "I made my spares and stayed out of trouble those first couple matches and shot in the low 200s and it was just enough.

"For the Round of 8 I made the ball change and it opened the lane up and that really relaxed me. I was able to just let the ball off my hand. I made the right guess and that's what this game is all about."

After getting past Michael Norris in the best-of-three Round of 8 with wins of 236-169 and 235-156, Santos defeated Jason Lundquist 253-215 in the single-game semifinal match. He then took on the four-time Denny's PBA Tour titlist Traber in the title match, who was never able to get on track.

Traber never struck on the right line in the finals, while Santos struck with his first five shots. After Traber missed a single-pin conversion in the fifth frame, the match was Santos' to lose. Following back-to-back nine-spares in the sixth and seventh frames, he closed out the win with three consecutive strikes.

With the title, the 43-year-old Santos takes home $10,000 and a berth in the 2007-08 PBA Tournament of Champions, one of four Majors on the Denny's PBA Tour.