By Joe D’Amodio | damodio@siadvance.com
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Staten Island’s longest running open bowling event — Jim Elliott’s New Year Singles Classic — will be held next month at Rab’s Country Lanes.

Qualifying in the event’s 47th edition will be held on the weekends of Jan. 7-8 and Jan. 14-15. Squad times each day will be at 1 and 2:30 p.m.

The finals will be contested on Jan. 21 at 1 p.m.

Entry fee is $50. The format consists of bowling three games across six lanes. Handicap is 70 percent of a 220 average. The finals are scratch.

The top two high rollers from each qualifier (16) will be seeded into the finals as well as the next eight high series for a total of 24 finalists.

Long Island kegler Pierce Field won last year’s event.