The 106th season is officially in the books! This past Monday night, April 21st was sweepstakes and the League Championship roll-off between Team Lane, Team Jones, Team Driver, and Team Cowell. Winning team takes all. Based on total pins with handicap.

And the winner is………..Team Cowell.
CONGRATULATIONS to Captain David Cowell, Bob Schuster, Quinn Rogers, Beth Russell, David Safarian, Bob Zangas, and Ralph Zuke for winning the League Bowling Championship!!!

Interesting Fact: This was Ralph Zuke third year of bowling in our league. Ralph has been on the winning league championship team all three years! If you are a Captain next year, you might want to pick Ralph! When you watch the Ralph Zuke bowl, he throws with so much power and enthusiasm for Rotary. He must get that strength from riding a bike across the country! Ralph, much success come your way on your upcoming new bike journey for Rotary.

League Championship Roll-off:
Total Pins/HDCP
2587 -Team Cowell
2380 -Team Driver
2312 – Team Jones
2110 – Team Lane

Tuesday, April 22nd we had a total of 19 bowlers hop on a chartered bus for Columbia, MO for our annual bowling competition against the Kansas City Rotary Club #13 Bowling League. A tradition unlike any other.

It was another great time of friendly Rotary Club competition. We had lunch at Flat Branch Brewing and dinner at The Heidelberg Restaurant in downtown Columbia, MO.
The bus ride was another classic of $1 dollar liars poker, bloody Mary’s chased by our good friend, Mick Ultra, and great party music thanks to Matthew Maddox and Kayla Jones!

We ended up with 19 of our bowlers against 18 of there bowlers. After 18 intense match play games, we were tied with St. Louis 9 wins to Kansas City 9 wins. We could have won 10 games, but lost our final match by 9 pins. Which gave Kansas City their 9th match play win.

Tie breakers goes to total pins with handicap. The difference was 136 pins.

Kansas City won the trophy. The current trophy began in 1966. The total count since 1966 is Kansas City with 30 wins, St. Louis with 28 wins, and Covid with 2.

Let’s give a big hand to our Columbia, MO St. Louis Rotary Club Bowling Team!

Team 1
Rachel Callier
Chad Baker
Matt Weiss

Team 2
Vic Difate
Jon Soifer
Carl Lane
Amy Lewis

Team 3
Kayla Jones
Rose Cooper
Wade Weistreich

Team 4
Ali Griebenow
Mike Coleman
Ralph Decker

Team 5
Lauren Kelenbrink
Don Klackner
Ashley Tooley

Team 6
Matthew Maddox
Jack Windish
David Cowell

Thank for a great season of bowling fun!
Next stop is our bowling banquet April 28th at Trattoria Toscana Italian Restaurant!

Strikes and Spares!

Ralph Decker
Rotary Bowling League President