Result of This Season’s Sheffield Juniors Bowling League

VSN wanted to let you know about a local bowling event happening over the weekend.

Sheffield Juniors is a local community youth bowling league which takes place at Sheffield Lanes. The purpose of this is to put a focus on developing athletic skills and, hopefully, a lifelong love for the sports.

Unlike other sports, everyone participates, and no one sits on the bench in Junior Bowling. At the younger ages, the focus in on having fun and learning the basics. As the bowlers get holder, the focus changes to solidifying mechanics and working on the mental side of the sport. Basically, it gets you ready for competing at the high school level, at tournaments and eventually adult leagues, if you stick with it that long.

This season, the Sheffield Juniors League had 49 bowlers, ranging from 8 years of age through 18 years of age. Those 49 bowlers were comprised of 12 teams. Coaching those teams were Mark Sembower, Adam Loverich, Megan Heppner and Eric Popovich, who helped the bowlers in pre-game warmups and during games.

This year’s season ran for 32 weeks (3 game series each week for a total of 96 games) on Saturday mornings from September through April. It was divided into 8-week quarters. The winners of each quarter made the roll off, which is a one-day championship tournament that follows the regular season. During the roll off, all 4 teams competed with each other for 1st and 2nd place trophies.

Participating teams were:

• • Team 5: Desmond Sembower, Richie Yeager, Nathan Cronin, and Blake Mowry (1st quarter winner)
  • Team 1: Sam Bologna, Roman Ritz, Brayden Mowry, and Alex Thompson (2nd quarter winner)
  • Team 4: Joe Bulebush, Nolan Houy, Thomas Turino, and Max Butter (3rd quarter winner)

  • Team 2: Ryan Ault, John Leitschaft, Aidan Heppner, and Ayden Gault (4th quarter winner)

    • Game 1
      • Standings: Team 4  813 total pins, Team 1 766 total pins, Team 2 744 total pins, Team 5 731 total pins
      • Bowlers over average: Max Butter (183), Alex Thompson (166), Nolan Houy (156), Thomas Turino (156), Desmond Sembower (137), Ryan Ault (116)
    • Game 2
      • Team Games: Team 2  881, Team 1 789, Team 4 779, Team 5 760
      • Standings: Team 2 1,625 total pins, Team 4 1,592 total pins, Team 1 1,555 total pins, Team 5 1,491 total pins
      • Bowlers over average: Aidan Heppner (233), John Leitschaft (216), Max Butter (173), Nolan Houy (163), Alex Thompson (151), Blake Mowry (136), Sam Bologna (132), Nathan Cronin (113), Ryan Ault (111)
      • Achievements: Aidan Heppner and John Leitschaft both 50+ pins over average
    • Game 3
      • Team Games: Team 4  808, Team 5 760, Team 2 758, Team 1 754
      • Final Standings: Team 4 2,400 total pins, Team 2 2,383 total pins, Team 1 2,309 total pins, Team 5 2,251 total pins

      • Bowlers over average: Aidan Heppner (196), Nolan Houy (177), Thomas Turino (152), Blake Mowry (137), Ryan Ault (112), Nathan Cronin (110), Sam Bologna (102)

    • Champions: Team 4 (by only 17 pins)
    • 2^nd Place: Team 2
    • Trophies for the 1^st and 2^nd place roll off teams, plus other season achievements will be handed out at the Sheffield Juniors banquet on Saturday, May 10th.