The WTBA’s AGM is on Thursday, Aug 20th, 6:30pm, at the Sport for Life Building.
Everyone is welcome!!
WTBA Annual General Meeting – Aug 20, 2026
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Laverendrye Lanes – Flooded
Due to extensive flooding in June, Laverendrye Lanes had to close their bowling operations and Pro Shop. They are in the process of cleanup and repairs and are hoping to be open by the end of August, but this is not guaranteed. The Manager sends out regular updates to their League Secretaries and Presidents. We will keep you updated here also.
** NEW ** Adult and Senior Provincial Championships
The MBA, is holding 2 new tournaments on Sunday, March 29 at Chateau Lanes and we want to make sure everyone knows about them
They are the “Adult Provincial Championship” and the “Senior Provincial Championship” and the posters are up in all of the bowling centers with the details as well as posted on Facebook and the Winnipeg and Manitoba Bowling website
They are being generously sponsored by Manitoba Liquor & Lotteries and are presented by the Manitoba Bowling Association along with the Manitobe Tenpin Federation and Sport Manitoba
The tournaments are scratch and handicap so everyone can compete – you are entered in both scratch and handicap divisions at the same time
They are 6 game total pinfall with a top 3 stepladder in each division
Entry is $80 and there is no lineage charge, so your entry fee is going directly to the prize fund.
This will allow us to have a first prize of $500 in each division (scratch and handicap, adult and senior) based on 30 entries
As well, each entry will receive a $12 food and drink voucher that can be used the day of the tournament
We are very excited to host this new event and encourage all of you to come out and participate – it is for all bowlers!
Please get your entries in as soon as possible as they close on Saturday, March 28 at noon.
AND THERE IS MAXIMUM OF 78 ENTRIES FOR THE TWO EVENTS IN TOTAL !!
Go to Tournamentbowl.com to enter online – you can scan the QR code on the poster for a quick link to the tournament OR reach out to the tournament director Shauna Jeannotte.
Please see the posters for all of the details!
Adult Provincial Championships poster
Senior Provincial Championships poster
MBA 2026 Super Bowl Pool Ticket Winners
The Manitoba Bowling Association thanks everyone for their participation, both sellers and purchasers. All the money raised goes towards our local Youth programs!
2026 MBA Super Bowl Pool Winners
AFC Conference Final - Denver Broncos (home) vs New Englad Patriots (visitor)
Home Visitor How Prize Winner
7 0 1st Quarter $100.00 Carla Boulet
0 7 1st Quarter - Reverse $50.00 Mark Wilkinson
7 7 2nd Quarter $100.00 Lynne Gauthier
7 7 2nd Quarter - reverse $50.00 Lynne Gauthier
7 10 3rd Quarter $100.00 Murray Lewis
10 7 3rd Quarter - reverse $50.00 Dan Schille
7 10 Final score $200.00 Murray Lewis
10 7 Final Score - reverse $50.00 Dan Schille
NFC Conference Final - Seattle Seahawks (home) vs Los Angeles Rams (visitor)
Home Visitor How Prize Winner
10 3 1st Quarter $100.00 Kristen Jolly
3 10 1st Quarter - Reverse $50.00 Gail Denesiuk
17 13 2nd Quarter $100.00 Debbie Janz
13 17 2nd Quarter - reverse $50.00 Sharon Tataryn
31 (1) 27 3rd Quarter $100.00 John Prokopski
27 31 (1) 3rd Quarter - reverse $50.00 Tyler Krawetz
31 (1) 27 Final score $200.00 John Prokopski
27 31 (1) Final Score - reverse $50.00 Tyler Krawetz
Super Bowl - New Englad Patriots (home) vs Seattle Seahawks (visitor)
Home Visitor How Prize Winner
0 3 1st Quarter $100.00 Colleen Schille
3 0 1st Quarter - Reverse $50.00 David Hawrysh
0 9 2nd Quarter $100.00 Mike Schmidt
9 0 2nd Quarter - reverse $50.00 Johanna O'Leary
0 12 3rd Quarter $100.00 Brenden Gale
12 0 3rd Quarter - reverse $50.00 Kayla Carpenter
13 29 Final score $200.00 Kelly Abbot
29 13 Final Score - reverse $50.00 Aidan Balzer
Marissa Naylor-McCall – Making History
Marissa was featured in the Free Press on Wed, April 23, 2025 for her historic win of the Marinelli City Singles Tournament. It is a terrific article. Enjoy.
Inspiring the Next Generation
Marissa Naylor-McCall made bowling history this year, but her impact on Manitoba’s bowling community transcends time and hardware.
Naylor-McCall became the first woman to win the Marinelli City Singles bowling tournament in its 65-year history.
“I think being the first woman is really cool,” she said. “Also, showcasing that women can compete against the men, and we can hold our own — and that we can also beat them.”….
Unfortunately, this is all we are allowed to show of the Winnipeg Free Press article. To read the whole article, you can go to the link below, where you will be asked to enter your email address to read the whole article. Or, if you are a Winnipeg Free Press subscriber, you simply login to read the article.
https://www.winnipegfreepress.com/breakingnews/2025/04/22/inspiring-the-next-generation
Super Bowl 2025 Pool Ticket Results
| 2025 MBA Super Bowl Pool Winners | ||||
| AFC Conference Final – Kansas City Chiefs (home) vs Buffalo Bills (visitor) | ||||
| Home | Visitor | How | Prize | Winner |
| 7 | 3 | 1st Quarter | $100.00 | Matteo Scerbo |
| 3 | 7 | 1st Quarter – Reverse | $50.00 | Robbie Scerbo |
| 21 | 16 | 2nd Quarter | $100.00 | Wayne Toews |
| 16 | 21 | 2nd Quarter – reverse | $50.00 | Tyler Wiwchar |
| 21 | 22 | 3rd Quarter | $100.00 | Zach Hoeppner |
| 22 | 21 | 3rd Quarter – reverse | $50.00 | Jessica MacIntyre |
| 32 (2) | 29 | Final score | $200.00 | Justin Jeannotte |
| 29 | 32 (2) | Final Score – reverse | $50.00 | Elaine Yamron |
| NFC Conference Final – Philadelphia Eagles (home) vs Washington Commanders (visitor) | ||||
| Home | Visitor | How | Prize | Winner |
| 14 | 3 | 1st Quarter | $100.00 | David Hawrysh |
| 3 | 14 | 1st Quarter – Reverse | $50.00 | L Mitchell |
| 27 | 15 | 2nd Quarter | $100.00 | Justin Jeannotte |
| 15 | 27 | 2nd Quarter – reverse | $50.00 | Dallas Lewis |
| 34 (4) | 23 | 3rd Quarter | $100.00 | Glenn Diduck |
| 23 | 34 (4) | 3rd Quarter – reverse | $50.00 | Steven Skehar |
| 55 (25) | 23 | Final score | $200.00 | Mike Kozokowsky |
| 23 | 55 (25) | Final Score – reverse | $50.00 | Lynne Gauthier |
| Super Bowl – Philadelphia Eagles (home) vs Kansas City Chiefs (visitor) | ||||
| Home | Visitor | How | Prize | Winner |
| 7 | 0 | 1st Quarter | $100.00 | Ron Nault |
| 0 | 7 | 1st Quarter – Reverse | $50.00 | Paul Gauthier |
| 24 | 0 | 2nd Quarter | $100.00 | Rui Reis |
| 0 | 24 | 2nd Quarter – reverse | $50.00 | Rolly Fontaine |
| 34 (4) | 6 | 3rd Quarter | $100.00 | Geoffrey W |
| 6 | 34 (4) | 3rd Quarter – reverse | $50.00 | Corinne Coutts |
| 40 (10) | 22 | Final score | $200.00 | Wendy Buleziuk |
| 22 | 40 (10) | Final Score – reverse | $50.00 | Danielle Wilkins |
Israel Potter is on Fire !!
Israel Potter, one of our local young phenoms, has been bowling “lights out” of late. Case in point, he bowled perfect games in the Winnipeg Senior Men’s League at Laverendrye Lanes, TWO WEEKS IN A ROW !
On Nov 5th, in his first game of the night, he rolled a perfecto, on Lanes 11 and 12. And then one week later, on Nov 12th, he bowled another perfect game in his second game of the night, on Lanes 9 and 10. Incredible!
Just to add more fuel to that fire, Potter rolled a 299 game in a local tournament on November 11th (it’s called the Hal Ross Doubles). This event was also at Laverendrye Lanes.
As some of you may (or may not) know, Potter has been testing his skills over the past year or so by bowling in some Professional Bowlers Association Regional tournament in the U.S. We heard a very interesting story related to one of those tournaments. The tournament was in Montana, and Potter had made it to the televised stepladder finals. He bowled well, but lost to Marshall Kent, finishing up in 3rd place. That is a huge success! After the tournament, Potter and his Dad were driving back to Winnipeg, and in the wee hours of the morning they stopped for gas and snacks in South Dakota. As Potter was standing at the counter, he felt a tug on his hoodie, and when he looked down he saw a young boy (about 9 years old?). The boy asked if he was Israel Potter. Rather dumbfounded, Potter said he was. The young boy said that he had just watched Potter on TV, and then asked him for his autograph. This was a brand new experience for Potter (one that I’m sure he’s going to have to get used to). Potter said he was quite surprised that the boy had recognized him and approached him. He chuckled, “I’m sure I looked like a homeless person”, with his hood up, and a groggy lack-of-sleep look on his face. I’m guessing that this won’t be the last time he is recognized on the street.
Keep it up Israel!!
Gord Tereck – 800 Series !
On Tuesday, Oct 22, 2024, in the Winnipeg Senior Men’s League at Laverendrye Lanes, Gord Tereck accomplished a feat that few bowlers achieve in their career. He rolled a 3-game series of 816. His games were 290, 279, and 247. Tereck’s first game started with a spare, and then 11 strikes in a row. His second game started with 9 strikes. If you are counting, that’s 20 strikes in a row!
This was Tereck’s first career 800 series. And what makes this even more incredible is that in this league, we move to a new pair of lanes each game. And there are no practice shots before starting that 2nd or 3rd game. So, it is a matter of making educated adjustments, quickly, to ensure that you don’t lose the pocket, or your “carry”.
Tereck commented that he barely changed his targets during the series, but people who bowl with him know that he is very adept at making other changes, such as release, speed, and loft when necessary. He also said that this was the most consistent and accurate that he has felt in some time. A high percentage of his strikes were the “ten-in-the-pit” kind of strikes or what we like to call “no-doubters”.
Congratulations Gord!
Winnipeg wins the Association Challenge!
BRANDON, DAUPHIN, WINNIPEG ASSOCIATION CHALLENGE 2024
This year on October 19, 2024, the Association Challenge was hosted by the Winnipeg Tenpin Bowling Association. Next in the rotation is the trip to Brandon for 2025. A fun tournament with only bragging rights and a plaque with the winning Association’s bowler’s names on it up for grabs.
A big shout out to Jody Scott, Ron and Geri Molinski as the only bowlers who have participated in all the challenge matches thus far and that would be 17 years. Even though Ron and Geri did not bowl they did a great job making sure everything ran smoothly. Also a big thank you to Blair Chaban and Rhonda Chaban from Bowl Below for getting the bowling establishment ready for the Challenge and making sure everything ran smoothly which it did.
This year instead of having the usual banquet style meal a great meal was ordered from Mary Brown's Chicken on McPhillips which was enjoyed by everyone. All said that it was a great change for the meal. A big thanks to Pat Wight for looking after the snacks during the day and for the dessert after the meal. A 50/50 was held and half of the proceeds went to one winner and the other half went to drivers that drove in for the Challenge as a gas allowance.
The low game of the tournament was 78 and the high game was 236. The low 4 game series was 453 and the high 4 game series was 825.
As last year in Dauphin there were only 4 games bowled instead of the usual 5 games. This way the travelling associations could get home sooner and the supper didn’t have to be rushed through. Everyone that bowled liked the new format and it will probably be adopted by the other associations.
As always it was great seeing members of the other bowling associations and socialize with all. The new bowlers that have never participated in the challenge before said they cannot wait until nest season so the can participate again.
Congratulations to Winnipeg who have the bragging rights for 2024!!! Who will it be in 2025?
Winnipeg Team Members
Team 1 – Pat Wight, Jay Doe, Kim Clark, Linda Green
Team 2 – Kleighton Burns, Lynda Seewald, Ken Burns, Carl Fredrickson
Brandon Team Members
Team 1 – Sean Clegg, Rudy Von Hertzberg, Ted Smuland, Trevor Peters
Team 2 – Charmaine Davis, Laura Tycoles, Alexis Cairns, Arlene Cairns
Dauphin Team Members
Team 1 – Jody Scott, Tracy Scott, Candace Chura, Zach Weber
Team 2 – Jack Kukurudz, Elizabeth Gorzala, Kim Gudmundson, Jason Kindlein
Scores:
Winnipeg 1 894 867 918 894
Winnipeg 2 777 852 900 892 6994
Brandon 1 807 864 804 788
Brandon 2 849 871 831 898 6712
Dauphin 1 788 915 836 878
Dauphin 2 783 859 776 872 6707
John De Leon – His First Youth 700 Series !
CONGRATULATIONS to John De Leon, who rolled his first-ever 700 series!
In the Laverendrye Youth League on Monday, Feb 12, 2024, John rolled games of 244, 248, and 216, for a series total of 708, which was also more than 125 pins over his average. I believe we’ll be hearing of more awards in the future for this powerful two-handed bowler.
John is shown above receiving his CTF Power Pack youth awards for his achievement.