2024 National Championship Schedule

This past weekend Milwaukee bowler Steve Nelson emerged as the winner of Men’s Singles Playdowns and will represent the Central Division in the US National Championships in Arcadia California October 16-20.  This annual event is competition amongst bowlers who represent Bowls USA’s seven divisions. Congratulations and best of luck to Steve.

The Chili Bowl Touranament was held on October 12, 2013. Twelve bowlers participated. They were divided into two teams and competed against each other in triples, pairs, and singles events. First place went to the team of Bob Schneider, Joe Zinna, John Kirkwood, Jim Grzybowski, Pat Wimmer, and Dat Nguyen. Thank you to Leif Andresen…

MLPLBA hosted the Central Division Open Singles tournament on August 8-9, 2015. Eleven bowlers participated. Max Cavender edged out three time national champion Bob Schneider to capture the 2015 Central Division Singles title.  Bob had a 10 to 5 point advantage in the 18 shot final, but Max played some dynamic bowls to even up…

Max Cavender was the only member of Central’s team to manage a win on Day 3 of the U.S. Lawn Bowling Championships in Seattle. Max can still earn a silver medal with a win in his last game tomorrow. Although losing both games today the women’s pairs team has an outside chance at gold, but…

Twenty bowlers from the Central Division endured two days of extreme heat and humidity July 30 – 31 in pairs competition over the course of five challenging games on very fast greens, followed by playoffs and the championship game that produced the following top five teams.  Congratulations to:  1st – Bob Schneider / Rob Behncke…

There was limited participation this year, but the team of Rob Behncke and Bob Schneider prevailed over Leif Andresen and Jim Grzybowski to win the “Pot.”