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Local Bowlers End Games On A High Note

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Although Team Ontario is no longer competing in bowling during the Special Olympic Canada Winter Games they finished off their last game strong with a win over Nova Scotia, 686 to 521.

The team has players from the northwest including Dryden’s Michele Dawn Schroeder.

Schroeder says she’s proud of her team and how they did.

Kenora’s Jem Swain-Moeller says she’s happy to be competing at a national level.

“It’s pretty good, I’m mostly excited to be with my fellow athletes, be with my team, be with Gary and meet some new friends.”

During her last frame of bowling in the Friday afternoon game, Swain-Moeller got a strike, she says it came after she suffered an injury in the ninth frame but she recovered, “it felt good and I proved to myself I can do better.”

The highlight for the Kenora bowler was meeting figure skater Scott Moir.

“I felt like I was dreaming, my family got to meet him and it was really good.”

Dryden’s Michele Dawn Schroeder says she’s proud of her team and how they did.

Justin LaBlance is from Port Elgin and says during the Special Olympic Canada Winter Games he had one of his best games in 5 pin bowling.

“Even if I don’t medal, I had a good weekend and I bowled the best I could,” LaBlance adds.

Scott Pichlyk is from Sioux Lookout and says he thought he didn’t do so well and then he had one game that was his personal best around 123.

“I’m the only one from Sioux Lookout that’s on our team. I never knew I’d make it this far and it’s nice to be in a different town,” Pichlyk adds.

The Special Olympic Canada Winter Games in Thunder Bay wraps up on Saturday.

Team Ontario hugs while Team Nova Scotia watches the bowling action

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Regional Bowling Team Impresses At Provincials

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The Sunset Country POA Bowling team is headed to the I.P. nationals later this spring in Winnipeg.

The team of Scooter Bowman, Mike Pavey, Kayla Gadd, June McNally and coach Tim Gadd finished the Northern Ontario championships in Timmins with all 14 of their possible final 14 points to grab the Silver medal.

Darryl Rollins, Michelle Riley and Sherry McCoy pulled off another golden trifecta for Sunset Country in the Executive portion of the tournament.

Sunset Country also won the aggregate banner which is given to the zone that had a best overall performance at the Provincial tournament.

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Local Bowlers Look To Strike In Timmins

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Our region is well represented at the Provincial 5 Pin Bowling Championship being held in Timmins.

The two day event starts on Friday and some 90 competitors will compete in a tournament solely based on beating their own league average.

Dryden’s Tim Gadd is one of many leading the local contingent.

He provides an update from the 2020 Cambrian Insurance POA Classic Tournament:

“The tournament is an annual Pins Over Average tournament organized by the Northern Ontario 5 Pin Bowlers’ Association where POA teams are vying for a spot at the 2020 Inter-Provincial Canadian 5 Pin Bowling National Championship being held in Winnipeg, MB. Two teams will earn the right to represent Northern Ontario on the national stage and will attempt to continue the streak of medaling at nationals for the province as Northern Ontario has seen a Bronze Medal and Gold Medal in the last two years respectively! Last year, the team from Thunder Bay captured gold in Saskatoon, SK and the year prior the team from Sunset Country (Dryden, Balmertown, Kenora and Fort Frances) won national Gold in Charlottetown, PEI!

The 2020 Sunset Country contingent will be led by contingent manager Toni Benning (Fort Frances). Filling the contingent representing our area is:

POA Team 1: Jesse Sidor (Balmertown), Robert Keeper (Balmertown), Shannon Davis (Kenora), Danielle Bois (Fort Frances) and coach Terry Delaronde (Dryden)

POA Team 2: Scooter Bowman (Balmertown), Mike Pavey (Kenora), Kayla Gadd (Dryden), June McNally (Balmertown) and coach Tim Gadd (Dryden)

Darryl Rollins (Dryden), Michelle Riley (Balmertown) and Sherry McCoy (Balmertown) will compete in the Executive divisions.

Charlotte Hazelwood, Terri-Lynn Dale, Jenn Rollins and Catherine Dashnay will compete in the Hi-Low Doubles divisons.

Check out Northern Ontario 5 Pin Bowlers’ Association on Facebook to stay up to date on the tournament! Safe travels and good bowling to all competitors!

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Great Results For Local Bowling Team

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It was a great weekend of bowling for members of Dryden Bowler’s Association as they competed in the Northern Ontario 5 Pin Bowler’s Association Open Zone round for a chance to move on to the Provincial Championships.

Bowler’s from Dryden, Fort Frances and Red Lake competed in a 20 game roll off in at Plaza Lanes in Fort Frances over the weekend for a chance to earn a spot on the men’s, ladies or mixed teams. The top 6 men make up the men’s team, top 6 for the ladies and the mixed team consists of 7-9th place from the men and women.

Dryden had an excellent showing. Chris Gadd, Scott Miner, Calvin Murray, Andrew Misner and Robert Keeper earned their spot on the men’s team with Jeff Watts from Fort Frances completing the team. Jeff, Chris and Calvin will also bowl in the singles competition as they finished in the top 3 respectively.

The men will be coached by Tim Gadd from Dryden.

Qualifying in first place and earning her spot not only on the ladies team but in singles competition as well was Jackie Miner. Also qualifying from Dryden is Kailee Ernewein. The rest of the team will consist of Jessica Scott from Kenora, Toni Benning from Fort Frances, Alexis Knudsen from Red Lakeand Marla Fedeniuk from Fort Frances.

The ladies will be coaches by Terry Delaronde from Dryden.

Finally, the Mixed team will have 3 bowlers from Dryden representing the zone at the provincial championships. Darryl Rollins and Justin Gallaway qualified 8th and 9th places respectively for the men, and Kayla Gadd qualified 9th in the ladies division. Rounding out the team is Jordan Sokoliuk from Fort Frances, Michelle Riley from Red Lake and Kathy Bois from Fort Frances.

The mixed team will be coached by Norm Sanders from Dryden.

Altogether, 19 men and 12 ladies competed in the tournament. The qualifiers will now move on to represent Sunset Country in the Provincial Championships which will be held in Thunder Bay April 8-11th. They will be competing against 5 other zones across the Norther Ontario District including Sudbury, Timmins, North Bay and Thunder Bay.

Good luck and good bowling to all!