Okotoks youth continue to strike gold at the intracity finals.
For the fifth time in seven years, the Millennium Lanes brought home gold from the Pee Wee Intracity Finals at Chinook Bowladrome in Calgary in the boys team event.
The team of Quinton See, Ray Chadwick and Emmett Evans combined to win their first medals collectively with a combined score of 667, 55 points ahead of the silver medallists.
“Chinook is a more difficult bowling centre for younger children because a faster ball is required to knock over corner pins when trying for that coveted strike,” said Okotoks coach Kyle Honish. “Young bowlers just don't have the strength so anything close to their league average is an exceptional day.”
See, 8, had scores of 86 and 99, Chadwick, 7, registered games of 126 and 159 and Evans, 9, produced 90 and 107 point rounds.
In the boys single competition, Andrew Honish won silver to add to his collection with a fourth consecutive medal performance at the intracity. Honish scored 146 and 136, finishing 43 back of first place.
In the girls team event, a trio of Okotoks youngsters proved aged is just a number.
Ava MacDiarmid, Lila Dedemus, both 4, and Phoebe Huff, 5, won bronze competing against peers up to the 7-9 age group to highlight their first season in the sport.
Okotoks was also represented at the competition by Paisley de Boer in girls single, Dawson MacDiarmid, Hendrix de Boer and Annabelle Connery along with Bennett Flentje, Kaiden Ly and Miah Reboul in mixed team as well as Owen Robinson, Charlie Robinson and Oliver Whippy in boys team.
The event was a first for over half of the Okotoks bowlers with nine of the 17 competing outside of their own facility for the first time. Six of the nine are first year bowlers.
Another highlight for coach Honish was the contributions of older members of the club with three of its older bowlers Adin MacDiarmid, 17, Dustin Sobry, 16 and Elizabeth Honish, 12, lending a hand in coaching.
“So many young ones can look to these older ones as role models,” added Honish.
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