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Midland has its own provincial champion Eleven year old Melanie Brabant achieved every bowlers dream by winning a major championship on the weekend. Melanie bowled in the provincial Four Steps to Stardom Championships of the On- tario Youth Bowling Coun- cil as the Bantam Girls singles representative for the Huronia Zone. At Aprile lanes in Scar- borough, Melanie started her way to the provincials by-winning the first step at the local house round in January rolling 1698 for 8 games [212 average]. She won the second step at the zone level by defeating the girls' representing the 8 other bowling lanes in the zone with 594 triple in Feburary at Base Borden. 2 Sunday, Melanie had her work cut out for her-having to compete against the singles representatives from the other 17 zones in Southern Ontario stret- ching from Windsor to the Quebec border. Some of these bowlers carried a much higher average than Melanie and had more experience. Melanie started off the 3 game tournament with a superb 275, finishing with 5 strikes in a row. Her closest rival rolled 231 be- Marlin ing Jennifer Ferby from Aprile Lanes, the odds on favorite picked to win the tournament. In her second game, Melanie rolled 242 to Fer- by's 214, widening her margin to 78 pins. In the third and final game, Melanie bowled another strong game, finishing with a 209 despite several corner pins and a headpin in her final frame giving her a 726 triple and a win- ning margin of 94 pins over Ferby who finished with a very good 632 triple. Third place went to Kim Mayr! from Aurora with a total of 585. Melanie won the gold medal and a banner to hang up at Bayshore Lanes where she participates in the local YBC program. Melanie will now at- tempt to win the 4th and final step of the tourna- ment, when she competes in the Canadian Cham- pionships on the weekend of May 2 - 4 in Kitchener and Guelph. Melanie will bowl against the singles champion from each of 8 other provinces in her bid for the national title hoping to bring a third national ti- tle in sports back to the Midland area. Good Luck, Melanie. Passing the Puck Penetang Top Hat goaltender hands the puck to the referee at the Midland Minor Hockey House league ousts Stouffville Last Thursday, Midland Marlin Travel Major Peewees defeated Stouff- ville Clippers 5-2 to ad- vance to the Ontario Minor Hockey Association Cham- pionship finals against Hespeler. Midland's Doug Sum- mers struck 34 seconds in- to the game assisted by Chris Bales and Kevin Rankin. Stouffville finally scored before the period ended on a power play. The Marlins played with tenacity, but scrambled constantly as they had pro- blems keeping their posi- tions. Stouffville scored another power play goal a minute and a half into the middle frame. Once Midland @iiscovered they were not out there alone, the great passing plays came fast and furious. Chris Leonard pounded in a cross crease pass from Craig Dempsey and Chris Leonard. Chris Bales connected fora pair of markers within three minutes, one on a pass up from Dave Ferris and the other, a Doug Summers feed from the corner after Cancer Today as many as 65 per cent of children with acute -leukemia are alive and well 10 years after diagnosis. Great strides have been made, but the battle that re- mains to be fought will challenge the most resis- tant forms of this disease. Only research can arm the fight, and research dollars are donated dollars. Give generously to the Canadian Cancer Society when the canvasser calls at your door. an Adam Bourgeois pass. The defence returned to checking hard between the blue lines foiling many breakaways. , Doug Summers con- nected with his second of the contest in the final frame, closing out the scor- ing. Steve Garraway and Kevin Rankin assisted on the play. SEE THE BOSS -- --------------------* = > ---- aS S=S=----=[_= thruway mufflercentre REAR COIL SPRINGS rou OG 95 PARTS AND LABOUR Sie Offer expires May 31/87 = aa Tournament which wrapped up Saturday after 80 games. In this contest Penetang Top Hat Peewees COME eo REAR COIL SPRINGS | FROM $7095 CASH AND CARRY Offer expries. May 31/87 HWY. 93, MIDLAND 926-0144 FULL LINE IN STOCK CARS, VANS, LIGHT TRUCKS defeated Cookstown 7-3 for the championship. LESS REBATE Tom invites you to lot...check out this 1987 CIERA 4 DOOR with side mouldings, rear defroster, sport mirrors, block heater, 4 cylinder, automatic transmission, white wall tires, AM/FM stereo. Stock #2050. $13,900 ($13, YOU PAY ONLY me OUR LOW PRICE visit the all new showroom and *t 750 150 Tom Smith Chev. Olds. Ltd. 824 King St., Midland 526-0193 835-3813 Tuesday, March 24, 1987, Page 23