BREWER – USA East took the long road to the title game of the 24th World Team Candlepin Bowling Championship at Bangor-Brewer Bowling Lanes Saturday, and it looked as though the team ran out of gas. The USA East team, made up of Maine and… Read More
BREWER – USA East made a late surge, but it wasn’t enough to earn a bye in the World Team Candlepin Bowling Tournament at Bangor-Brewer Bowling Lanes. “We wanted first, obviously,” said Nate Nealey of Westbrook. “If you get first, you get [two] byes and… Read More
BANGOR – Ed Cotter of Levant rolled the second 300 game of his bowling career in Monday Night Men’s League action at Family Fun Lanes. The 44-year-old Cotter bowled a 763 series with a 221 in his first string, a 242 in his second and the perfect game… Read More
PORTSMOUTH, N.H. – Amanda Carroll of Gray won the International Candlepin Bowling Association championship with a final score of 1,183 pins in 10 games (strings). Carroll started off strong with a score of 583 after her first five games and a 33-pin lead over Beth… Read More
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HALIFAX, Nova Scotia – MacLaughlin’s Truck & Trailer won its fifth World Team Candlepin Championship in the last six years by beating defending champ Pelham Electric/A+ Accounting/Halifax Fairlanes in Saturday’s final. The final matched up the two local teams as MacLaughlin’s also plays out of… Read More
HALIFAX, Nova Scotia – USA East moved into position for a divisional title in the third day of the World Team Candlepin Bowling Championships Thursday at Halifax Fairlanes. USA East, which features Maine bowlers, has compiled a 58-14 record for the lead in the 12-team… Read More
HALIFAX, Nova Scotia – Borrelli’s of Lynn, Mass., rolled up a 22-2 record while USA East, a team featuring Maine bowlers, turned in a strong 16-8 effort in the first day of the 23rd World Team Candlepin Bowling Championships Tuesday at Halifax Fairlanes. Borrelli’s notched… Read More
HALIFAX, Nova Scotia – Trevor Smith of Moncton, New Brunswick, won the 2007 World Candlepin Bowling Championship knockout singles tournament Monday by three pins in the final match. Smith rolled a 123 to a 120 by runner-up Mark Ricci of Somerville, Mass., and did it… Read More
BANGOR – Jimmy Clark of Hermon rolled his 17th 300 game during Monday Night Men’s League competition at Family Fun Lanes. The 28-year-old Team Power member had games of 226, 287 and 300 for an 813 series. Read More
HERMON – Ben Johnson III of Orland bowled a perfect game during the Friday Night League at the Sports Arena. The 300 game was his first of the season and sixth of his career. googletag.cmd.push(function () { // Define Slot var slot_sizes = [[300,250]]; var… Read More
He was overcharged by $10, but Sim Dysart won’t be asking for any refund. The 63-year-old Hancock resident paid the sum to enter a six-week competition at Family Fun Lanes in Bangor and try to earn a free trip and three-day stay in Las Vegas… Read More
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Andy Meucci is celebrating his 40th year working at the Family Fun Bowling Center in Bangor, the 10-pin facility his parents (William and Betty) have owned since 1967. He began managing it after he graduated from Bangor High School in 1972. googletag.cmd.push(function () { //… Read More
BREWER – Pelham Electric/Halifax Fairlanes of Halifax, Nova Scotia, defeated Maria’s Subs of Scituate, Mass., to win the Candlepin Bowling World Team Championship Sunday at the Bangor-Brewer Bowling Lanes. Nate LeBlanc rolled a 424 series to boost Halifax Fairlanes to a final team score of… Read More
BREWER – Thursday was only day three of the 22nd World Team Candlepin Bowling Championships, but for the last three hours of the day’s action, it had all the intensity of a championship final. Perhaps that’s because Thursday afternoon’s late match between four-time defending champion… Read More
BREWER – Four-time defending champ MacLaughlin T&T captured all three of its matches and posted a perfect 24-0 record to surge into the Holiday Inn division lead on the second day of the World Team Candlepin Bowling Championship Wednesday at the Bangor-Brewer Bowling Lanes. Moncton… Read More
BREWER -With two dozen lanes, a game room, a restaurant and a bar, the Bangor-Brewer Bowling Lanes building isn’t small, but when the World Team Candlepin Bowling Championships are in town, it’s almost claustrophobic. It’s rainy and cold outside on this Tuesday in mid-November, but… Read More
BREWER – A Canadian competitor is $3,000 richer after winning the singles knockout of the World Team Candlepin Bowling Championship at the Bangor-Brewer Bowling Lanes Monday. Mike Hall of St. John, New Brunswick, defeated Bob Whitcomb of Scituate, Mass., in the final match 184-100 to… Read More
BANGOR – Doug Annis of Hampden had his first career 300 game during the Sunday Night Mixed Couples League at Family Fun Bowling Center. The 300 game was the first of the season for Family Fun Bowling Center. googletag.cmd.push(function () { // Define Slot var… Read More
What do you do after winning four straight titles? Well, if you’re the MacLaughlin’s Truck and Trailer candlepin team from Halifax, Nova Scotia, you try for your fifth. That’s exactly what the MacLaughlin’s bowlers will do, starting Tuesday as Bangor-Brewer Bowling Lanes hosts the 22nd… Read More
BANGOR – Family Fun Bowling Center manager Andy Meucci still finds it hard to believe. “I’m pinching myself, to tell you the truth,” said Meucci, a Bangor native who has a perpetual smile on his face these days. googletag.cmd.push(function () { // Define Slot var… Read More
HALIFAX, Nova Scotia – Coca-Cola Division winner Maine Heat of Bangor-Brewer Bowling Lanes was knocked out of the playoffs by MacLaughlin’s Truck and Trailer of Halifax 1973-1844 Saturday in the World Team Candlepin Bowling Championships at Halifax Fairlanes. MacLaughlin’s Truck and Trailer went on to… Read More
HALIFAX, Nova Scotia – Maine Heat of Bangor-Brewer Bowling Lanes clinched the Coca-Cola Division with an 80-8 record and earned a bye for the quarterfinals in today’s Men’s World Candlepin Championship at Halifax Fairlanes. Maine Heat will await the winner of the quarterfinal match between… Read More
HALIFAX, Nova Scotia – Three Maine Heat bowlers rolled in the top five of high series scores Thursday to propel the team to a three-game sweep of MacLaughlin’s Truck and Trailer of Halifax in the third day of the World Team Candlepin Bowling Championships at Halifax Fairlanes. Read More
HALIFAX, Nova Scotia – Chris Sargent had a high series score of 466 to help push the Maine Heat of Bangor into first place in the Coca-Cola division after the second day of the World Team Candlepin Bowling Championships at Halifax Fairlanes on Wednesday. Maine… Read More
HALIFAX, Nova Scotia – A tourney-high average of 145 by Nate Nealey of Westbrook put the Maine Heat in a first-place tie in the Coca-Cola division after the first day of the World Team Candlepin Bowling Championships at Halifax Fairlanes Tuesday. Three-time defending champ MacLaughlin’s… Read More
Brewer’s Shawn Morrison is on a roll as he leads the Maine Heat into next week’s 21st World Team Candlepin Bowling Championships in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Morrison is the defending Maine singles champ, captured the International Candlepin Bowling Association’s singles title in October, and has… Read More
BREWER – Shawn Morrison was the local boy, a member of the host site’s team, a well-known regular and crowd favorite, and the general manager of Bangor-Brewer Bowling Lanes. So why did he feel like he was a player wearing pinstripes at Fenway Park Sunday?… Read More
BREWER – Charles Milan III of Bangor-Brewer Bowling Lanes took another step toward his 24th state championship when he earned a berth in the semifinal round of the Maine State Candlepin Association’s singles championship. Milan will return to B-B Lanes to face Jim Singleton of… Read More
BREWER – MacLaughlin Truck & Trailer outlasted another Nova Scotia team, Beazley’s Bowling Center, on Saturday to win its third consecutive World Team Candlepin Bowling Championship at the Bangor-Brewer Lanes. With the win, MacLaughlin becomes only the second four-time champion since the event began in… Read More
BREWER – Fourth-seeded Beazley’s Bowling Center of Nova Scotia from the Holiday Inn Division ended No. 3 Varney GMC Division Maine Heat’s championship hopes by eliminating them in the first playoff round 1824-1753 Friday in the Candlepin Bowling World Team Championship at the Bangor-Brewer Bowling Lanes. Read More
BREWER – MacLaughlin Truck & Trailer of Nova Scotia moved ever-so-closer to clinching the top seed in one division, while Maria’s Subs of Massachusetts maintained its lead in the other division during the third day of action at the World Team Candlepin Championships at the Bangor-Brewer Bowling Lanes… Read More
BREWER – Defending champion MacLaughlin Truck & Trailer of Nova Scotia emerged in first place Tuesday after the opening day of World Team Candlepin Bowling Championships at the Bangor-Brewer Bowling Lanes. MacLaughlin, which is playing in the Varney GMC division, finished the day with a… Read More
BREWER – Craig Holbrook of Scituate, Mass., won the singles knockout tourney and $2,500 at the World Team Candlepin Bowling Championships at the Bangor-Brewer Bowling Lanes Monday. Holbrook defeated John Marriott of Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, in the final match 140-115, with Mariott collecting $1,500. googletag.cmd.push(function… Read More
The World Team Candlepin Bowling Championships will feature a bit of a new look mixed with the old when the 19th tournament begins Tuesday at the Bangor-Brewer Bowling Lanes in Brewer. The new will be the rebirth of an old team, USA East, featuring veteran… Read More
BANGOR – Forty-seven year-old Eric Kingsbury of Pittsfield registered his first ever 300 game when he accomplished the feat during Thursday Night Men’s Pine Tree League play at the Family Fun Bowling Center in Bangor. Read More
HALIFAX, Nova Scotia – Rob Henderson notched a 407 series to help MacLaughin’s Truck and Trailer win its second straight World Team Candlepin Bowling Championship at the Halifax Fairlanes Bowling Center on Saturday. MacLaughlin’s defeated the New Hampshire All-Stars 1,973-1,842 to become the first Canadian… Read More
HALIFAX, Nova Scotia -The third day of competition in the World Team Candlepin Bowling Championship ended Thursday with Maine Heat in a three-way tie atop the Pelham Electric division. Maine Heat, led by 23-time state champion Charlie Milan III; Maria’s Sub of Scituate, Mass., and… Read More
VEAZIE – Like many bowlers, Derek Michaud began when he was young. “I started when I was 8,” the 21-year-old said. “My dad took me, and I’ve been hooked ever since.” googletag.cmd.push(function () { // Define Slot var slot_sizes = [[300,250]]; var new_slot_sizes = [];… Read More
BREWER – Given the circumstances, the Maine Heat will take it. The defending champions of the World Team Candlepin Bowling Championships won the Holiday Inn Division of the tourney Friday at the Bangor-Brewer Lanes and received a two-round bye into today’s semifinals. But this wasn’t… Read More
BREWER – The host Maine Heat team and MacLaughlin Truck and Trail jumped from third to first in their respective divisional rankings after the second day of team competition at the Candlepin Bowling World Team Championship Wednesday at Bangor-Brewer Bowling Lanes. After going 16-8 on… Read More
HALIFAX, Nova Scotia – Charles Milan III is among the most recognizable names in the history of candlepin bowling. The venerable owner of the Bangor-Brewer Bowling Lanes has racked up an incredible 21 state singles championships. Until Saturday, there was one elusive title to which… Read More
HALIFAX, Nova Scotia – Orrington’s Shawn Morrison is $1,250 wealthier after winning the singles championship at the World Team Candlepin Bowling Championship at the Fairlanes Bowling Center on Monday. Morrison, who bowls with the Brewer-based Maine Heat team, defeated Chip Carson of Bangor in the… Read More