Three young ladies from the Youth Bowling Club at Timber Lanes captured a bronze medal at the national championships in Gatineau, Que on May 3.
Kristen Pacheco, Alyssa Hazlewood and Baylee Huntus, representing Northern Ontario, bowled 21 games in three days and tied two other teams for second place in the tournament.
The three teams faced off in a roll-off game and the girls finished with 101 pins over their average, earning them the bronze medal.
The three beat out 309 bowlers from across Canada for the third place finish and it was the first national medal for the Timber Lanes Bowling Club in recent decades.
Coach Tim Gadd, centre, says the girls played very well, averaging as a team, 110 pins over their average per game.
The three earned a spot at the Nationals after coming in first at the provincial level in Timmins in March.

At press time, four DHS badminton teams were headed to Atikokan to take part in the NWOSSA badminton championships and a spot at the all-Ontario championships in Stratford May 6-8.
After traveling to Kenora for the NorWOSSA championships, Callie Graboski qualified for NWOSSA in the senior girls’ singles division with a second place finish.
Emily Kennedy also finished second and qualified for NWOSSA in the junior girls’ singles division.
Emilie Gardam and Darian Jordens earned a second place finish in Kenora in the junior mixed doubles category and Josh Dahmer and Dylan Cuyler earned a silver medal in the junior boys’ doubles division.
Twelve DHS teams qualified for the NorWOSSA tournament during the qualifying round in Dryden on April 14 and made the trip to Kenora.
The four teams who qualified for NWOSAA  faced off against the top badminton teams in the area for a spot at OFSAA from the local area high schools.
Atikokan, Sioux Lookout, Fort Frances, Ignace and Pelican Falls all took part in the playoffs.
The Eagles are hoping to repeat last year’s performance as they sent veteran player, Tamara Duncan to her first badminton OFSAA where she competed very well.
Results from the NWOSSA championships will be available online at www.drydenobserver.ca under the sports section as soon as results are available. For more results, see next week’s print edition of the Dryden Observer.

The DHS?Eagles’ badminton teams hosted area high schools for the NorWOSSA qualifiers on April 14.
Teams finishing in the top three in each division  moved on to the NorWOSSA championships in Kenora on April 21.
The teams squared off against players from Atikokan, Ignace, Pelican Falls, Fort Frances and Sioux Lookout
DHS teams qualifying for the NorWOSSA tournament were:
•  junior mixed doubles partners Emilie Gardam and Darian Jordens
• junior girls’ singles players Emily Kennedy and Carly Kaus
• junior boys’ doubles partners Joshua Dahmer and Dylan Cuyler
• junior boys’ singles players Grant Valiquette and Ritchie Callewart
• senior mixed doubles partners Matt Bartlett and Nat Saar and Brenden Szabo and Taylor Koshel
• senior girls’ doubles partners Jessica Skillen and Melissa Felske
• senior boys’ doubles partners Jacob Gardam and Jeremy Kennedy
• senior girls’ singles player Callie Graboski
Results for the NorWOSSA tournament were unavailable at press time.

For photos, see this week’s print edition of the Dryden Observer.

For NorWOSSA results, see next week’s edition.

The Eagles had a successful run in Fort Frances yesterday in court sport action.

The Junior girls took the Muskies in three straight sets, 25-19, 25-17, 25-20.

The Senior girls also beat the Muskies in three straight sets, 25-17, 25-11, 25-15.

The Junior boys took a hard loss 61-33 and the Senior boys basketball team kept it to  a close 36-23 loss.

The teams are breaking from court sport action for two weeks while they prepare and write their first semester exams.