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Mens Team
Mens Team
2024-2025
Ladies Team
Ladies Team
2024-2025
Mixed Team
Mixed Team
2024-2025
2024 Highlights
2024 Highlights
Ontario Provincial Championships
Highlights from Mens & Ladies teams
at Echo Bowl
2023 Niagara Ladies
Provincial Champions... Laura Turpin, Sarah Stevens, Kayla Ferguson, Tracy Smith, Sarah Combs, and Vicky Robins with Coach Kevin Smith.
2022 Niagara Ladies
Provincial Champions... Laura Turpin, Lindsay Richarson, Vicky Robins, Kayla Ferguson, Sarah Combs, and Sarah Stevens
Coach Kevin Robins
2019 Niagara Mens Team
Kile, Tyler, Adam, Dave, Ralph, Matt, and Tom
2019 Niagara Mens Singles
Coach Ralph, Adam, Kile, and Tyler
2017 Niagara Mens Team
Derek, Adam, Matt, Roy, David, and Paul
coach Ralph
2014 Niagara Ladies
Provincial Champions... Tracy Smith, Vicky Robins, Wilma Vanderzwaag, Rickie Dutcher, Becky Nieuwold, and Valerie Dixon
Coach Kevin Smith
2013 Niagara Mens & Ladies
2013 Open Provincial Championship Highlights from the Mens and Ladies teams.
Ralph Eckhardt
Mallory Wendel
Valarie Dixon
Don Betts
1992 Mixed Team
1992 Mixed Team
This team won the bronze medal at the nationals, and when they returned home they were presented with an award from the Mayor of St. Catharines.
1986 Niagara Mixed
1986 Niagara Mixed Team won the gold medal at the nationals, and Ralph Eckhardt was named to the Canadian All-Star team.
1986 Nationals
1986 Nationals
Niagara Mixed Team Gold Medal
1986 Nationals
1986 Nationals
Niagara Mixed Team Gold Medal
1984 Niagara Men
This team won the silver medal at the nationals with Don Betts and rookie Ralph Eckhardt.
Coach Paul Asselin
The Open Championships
This is the biggest national tournament for 5-pin bowling.
To qualify consists of 20 games. 10 games one sunday, then 10 more games the following sunday. From those 20 games, the top 3 men and ladies make singles and the top 6 make up the mens and ladies teams. After that the next 3 men and ladies join together to form a mixed team. There is also a senior division.
Once all of the teams have been made and the coaches have been selected for each team, the next round is the Provincal Championships, which take place every year over Easter weekend. There are 13 zones in Southern Ontario, so our Niagara teams will play each of those zones once. Then the top 4 teams in each division will take part in the stepladder finals on the last day of the event. From there the winning teams will get to advance to the National Championships, typically in May.
At the National Championships, the winning teams earn a gold medal, there are also silver and bronze medals as well. In addation to the team medals, the top 5 men and the top 5 ladies will be named to an overall All-Star team of the best bowlers in all of Canada.
Our Niagara teams have gone to the Nationals many times, and have won bronze, silver, and gold medals. We have also had a few of our bowlers named to the All-Star team.
The last Niagara team to win a gold medal at the Nationals was our 1986 Mixed team.
And the Niagara bowlers that have been named to the All-Star team have been...
Don Betts, Bill Williams, Ralph Eckhardt, and Ferne Wendel.
Not verified, but I believe there are some others as well...
Paula Cullen & Connie Ward each won a gold medal in ladies singles, which would presumably have earned them both All-Star medals as well.
1974 Niagara Mens team also won a gold medal.
Marj Summers possibly won a ladies single gold medal (and possibly all-star medal) in the 1960s.
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