Category Archives: Tournaments

London & District Youth secure 4 out of 6 spots on the YBC Southern Ontario Team!

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4 steps provincial

The YBC 4 Steps to Stardom Tenpin 2015 Nationals will be held in Toronto, May 1 – 4th, 2015.  48 of Canada’s best youth tenpin bowlers from eight provinces will compete at this year’s National Championship.

Each bowler has 4 steps through the season to compete to try out for the National Top Spot in their division.
STEP 1: Each bowling centre qualifies their top bowlers to send to the zone round.  STEP 2: The zone round qualifies 4 bowlers in each division to send to the provincial round.
STEP 3: The Provincial round sends the 1st place Boy and Girl from each of 3 divisions to the National Championship filling 6 spots on the team.
STEP 4: The National Round which will be held this year in Toronto, May 1 – 4th, 2015.

The Southern Ontario provincial qualifier (STEP 3) was held in Burlington February 21st  where 4 out of 6 spots were secured by local bowlers Ryan Locker (Senior Boy) of St. Thomas and from London, Mykaela Mitchell (Senior Girl), Cole Sitzes (Bantam Boy) and Sydney Fargnoli (Bantam Girl).  All are very proud 1st time team members with the exception of Mykaela who was a team member in 2010, 2012 and 2013.

London also grabbed up a Silver medal by Dawson Sears who was a previous Southern Ontario Team member in 2012 while St. Thomas scooped a Bronze medal by Brayden Vaughan who is a current 2015 member of the CTF Southern Ontario Team.

The additional 2 Southern Ontario team members are Junior Boy Joshua Bautista from Brampton and Junior Girl Sarah Klassen from St. Catharines.  This year’s coaches will be Fred Harris of London and Maureen Cooper.

London and St. Thomas will be well represented at this year’s 4 Steps to Stardom National Championships!  They have one more step to try and earn top spot at the National Level!

Results will be posted during the tournament on London & District Facebook Group!

We are so proud of you!  Bring home some medals!  LET’S GO S.O.!!

 

GOLD X 3 for our London Youth!

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Three of our London and area youth 10 pin bowlers will represent Southern Ontario at CTF Nationals in Winnipeg, MB in May!  The Ivan Nelson Memorial Youth Championship is an annual tournament in Mississauga which attracts approximately 250 youth from all over Southern Ontario.  These youth all compete for 8 spots (4 girls and 4 boys) on the Southern Ontario Team along with $200 in scholarship.  This year London and district took 3 of those 8 spots which says a lot about the caliber of our youth 10 pin bowlers.  Rebekah Loker (left) and Mykaela Mitchell (middle) bowl out of Bowlerama Royale in London and Brayden Vaughan (right) bowls out of Heritage Lanes in St. Thomas.

3 times GOLD

 

 

 

 

 

Left to right…Rebekah Loker, Mykaela Mitchell, Brayden Vaughan

 

Ivan Nelson Memorial Youth Championship Tournament Director and Southern Ontario Coach, Chris Woolcock is quoted as saying “I start out with 250 smiling faces and end up with only 8!.”  This tournament is one of the most prestigious for our Southern Ontario youth bowlers and the pressure is on to fight for the only 8 spots.  Day 1 is comprised of 6 games total.  Day 1 was bowled on a medium sport pattern (Montreal). Each division qualifies only 8 to move on the Day 2.

After the 1st day London and District had the following bowlers qualify:

  • Bantam Boys – Cole Sitzes – Bowlerama Royale qualifying 1st overall with a total 1060 pins
  • Bantam Girls – Sydney Fargnoli – Bowlerama Royale qualifying 5th overall with a total 869 pins
  • Junior Boys – Brayden Vaughan – Heritage Lanes qualifying 2nd with 1114 pins
  • Junior Boys – Dylan Scott – Bowlerama Royale qualifying 8th with 1030 pins
  • Junior Girls – Rebekah Loker – Bowlerama Royale qualifying 2nd with 1067 pins
  • Intermediate Girls – Mykaela Mitchell – Bowlerama Royale qualifying 6th with 1023 pins
  • Senior Girls – Ashley Quenneville – Bowlerama Royale qualifying 5th with 1071 pins
  • Senior Girls – Victoria Molto – Bowlerama Royale qualifying 7th with 1024 pins

The goal the first day is to make top 8 and move on to the next day.  From there the competition starts all over and the bowlers bowl each of the other 7 bowlers in their division once.  A win will get them 2 points and based on how they score in their division per game they will get 8 points (for high score) and 1 point (for low score (possible 10 points per match).  The lane condition was a short sport pattern (Los Angeles).

We are so very proud of all of our London and District bowlers.  After a very tense and exciting final day we ended up with 3 of 8 Southern Ontario teammates from London and St. Thomas, Rebekah, Mykaela and Brayden:

2015 Southern Ontario Team

Seniors, Kenny Ho, Toronto & Miranda Panas, St. Catharines

Intermediates, Riley Pellerito, Windsor & Mykaela Mitchell, London

Juniors, Brayden Vaughan, St. Thomas & Rebekah Loker, Woodstock

Bantams, Wyatt Scott, Burlington & Sierra Baltzer, Windsor.

Coaches are Gus Badali & Chris Woolcock

Team Manager,  Laurie Gatto.

cole bronze

Cole Sitzes Bronze Medalist Bantam Division

As well, London and District boasts a silver medal in Senior Girls, Victoria Molto (Bowlerama Royale) and a bronze medal in Bantam Boys, Cole Sitzes, (Bowlerama Royale).

Victoria Molto

Victoria Molto Silver Medalist Senior Division

 

 
 
 

This is Brayden’s first National Competition as a Bantam Boy.  Rebekah has experience competing at the National level as the Bantam Girl member of the Southern Ontario team at YBC Nationals in 2012.  Mykaela has bowled for Youth Team Canada in 2013 winning an International bronze medal in trios in Puerto Rico, she is on the 2015 Canadian Youth Team, was the 2012 and 2010 National CTF Junior and Bantam Girl Champion for CTF as well as the 2012 YBC National Junior Girl Champion.

Great bowling to all of our competitors!

LET’S GO S.O.!!!

2014/2015 L&D Men’s & Ladies Championship RESULTS

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On November 22nd and 23rd, 2014 we held the Annual London & District Men’s and Ladies’ Championship Tournament at Bowlerama Royale.  We had a pretty good turnout this year.  Congratulations to our winners!

Men’s Team Event

1st Place – Monday Nite Men – 2836 – $342.00
2nd Place – Bowlers On A Roll – 2816 $120.00

Men’s Singles Event

1st Place – Neil McKay – 788 – $180.00
2nd Place – Mike Friese – 777 – $82.00
3rd Place – Peter Mindorff – 773 – $60.00
4th Place – Lee Doxtator – 768 – $50.00
5th Place – Ryan Locker – 766 – $30.00
6th Place – Robbie Chaplin – 761 – $30.00
7th Place – Doug Sears – 757 – $30.00
Ladies’ Team Event

1st Place – Ya Baby – 2884 – $198.00

Ladies’ Singles Event

1st Place – Mylene Comeau – 860 – $160.00
2nd Place – Jill Friis – 844 – $75.00
3rd Place – Julie Skillings – 808 – $55.00
4th Place – Lynne Savage – 782 – $45.00
5th Place – Lois Tillotson – 769 – $40.00
6th Place – Ashlee Moon – 757 – $37.50

FULL RESULTS 
2014-2015 Men’s Championship RESULTS
2014-2015 Ladies’ Championship RESULTS

2014 Ontario Joyce Woolgar Youth Family Twosome RESULTS

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On Feb 1 and 2, 2014, Classic Bowl in Mississauga hosted the Provincial 20th Annual Family Twosome Tournament.  We had several London and District Youth teams qualify to go to this round and there was some amazing bowling.

Congratulations to all our winners!

Out of 9 possible team winners and 12 houses competing…our London Youth took 3 winning spots!!!

PARENT/YOUTH Division
FIRST PLACE – Emily Taylor-Bond and Darryl Taylor-Bond
THIRD PLACE – Sydney Fargnoli and Rick Fargnoli

ADULT/TEEN Division
FIRST PLACE – Mykaela Mitchell and Jill Friis

Check out the full results here…
OTBA_2014_Family_Twosome_Results

DAY 2 – CTF IVAN NELSON MEMORIAL TOURNAMENT

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Day 2 – Match Play final was a tough day of competition for all of our qualifiers.  Tough lanes *Athens oil pattern” and tough competition but the London and District youth qualifiers didn’t come home empty handed. Brayden Vaughan from St. Thomas earned a silver medal in the Bantam Boy Division; Kyle Molto of London earned a silver medal in the Junior Boy Division after a grooling 1 game roll off; and Hailey Jolliffe of London earned a bronze medal in the Junior Girl Division.  The balance of the qualifiers came home with a great experience as they all made us proud and never gave up.  Congratulations to our medal winners who also take home scholarship $. As well  congrats to all the qualifiers. Job well done!

2014 CTF Southern Ontario Youth Champions will compete in Sault Ste Marie May 30th to Jun 3rd with Coach Gus Badali, Coach Dan Rose and Team Manager Laurie Gatto.

Congratulations to this years team!

Bantam Boy – Blake Foster, Kitchener
Bantam Girl – Jaiden Hiembecker, Kitchener
Junior Boy – Gavin Sum, Toronto
Junior Girl- Sara Klassen, St. Catharines
Intermediate Boy – DJ Rose, Windsor
Intermediate Girl – Caitlin Tam, Toronto
Senior Boy – Taylor Maxner, St. Catharines
Senior Girl – Stephani Rosa, St. Catharines

LETS GO S.O.!

Full results can be found on the Ontario Tenpin Bowling Association website www.otba.ca