It was supposed to be a road trip all about having fun with some of her bowling buddies with no high expectations, but it turned into an amazing weekend where a trip to Edmonton to bowl on the national stage would come to fruition.
Tiffany Fillier, Robin Parsons, Jamie Bennett, Philip Cave and Heather Moss formed a Corner Brook Centre Bowl squad that won gold at the 2018 provincial Bowl Canada Cup pins-over-average tournament at Riverdale Lanes in Kelligrews over the weekend.
The Corner Brook squad, leaders of the pack with +383 pins over average, won top honours in a field of 14 teams and will now represent Newfoundland and Labrador at the 2018 national Bowl Canada Cup event being held July 7-9 in Edmonton.
“We’re pretty excited about it,” an upbeat Fillier said Tuesday morning.
Fillier said nobody was thinking about winning it all before they went east, but after a few good performances they began to realize it was possible to make a run for it and that’s what they ended up doing.
Since it was based on pins-over average it was all about everybody holding their own and Fillier was impressed with how everybody delivered when they had to, but they always kept a positive attitude when things didn’t go well for one reason or another.
“When one person on the team had a bad game everybody else picked up for them and bowled better to make up for it so it really was a team effort,” Fillier said.
Fillier isn’t going into unchartered waters heading to a national bowling tournament. She won a bronze medal as a member of the Corner Brook senior girls team at the 2014 national Youth Bowling Canada tournament and she made sure she shared some of her stories from that trip with some of the new bowlers on her team who have no idea how exciting it will be to bowl in an electric atmosphere with a national title up for grabs.
“It’s a really intense experience, but it’s also an insane amount of fun,” she said.
She’s thinking about going to Edmonton with fun with her teammates foremost on her mind.
Who knows, maybe it will be another amazing road trip where having fun is the key.
Road to Gold
Corner Brook Centre Bowl
(+383 pins over average)
Robin Parsons
Game 1 — 228
Game 2 — 212
Game 3 — 174
Game 4 — 213
Game 5 — 230
Total — 1,057
Average: 173
Tiffany Fillier
Game 1 — 255
Game 2 — 257
Game 3 — 133
Game 4 — 162
Game 5 — 174
Total — 981
Average: 183
Heather Moss
Game 1 — 144
Game 2 — 151
Game 3 — 184
Game 4 — 143
Game 5 — 161
Total — 783
Average: 160
Jamie Bennett
Game 1 — 336
Game 2 — 142
Game 3 — 151
Game 4 — 150
Game 5 — 162
Total — 941
Average: 179
Philip Cave
Game 1 — 226
Game 2 — 250
Game 3 — 256
Game 4 — 248
Game 5 — 221
Total 1,201
Average: 219
