The WIBC Team Series Record Falls in Michigan - Brief Article - Statistical Data Included

ONE OF THE MOST COVETED records in the WIBC has changed hands thanks to a former Star of Tomorrow winner.

In April at Clover Lanes in Livonia, Mich., Michelle Ewald--who won the Alberta E. Crowe Star of Tomorrow Award in 1996--helped lead the Turbo 2-N-1 Grips/Remerica Realtors quintet that set an WIBC record for a five-woman series with a 3,557 score. That topped the old record of 3,552, set by Detroit's Contour Power Grips in 1998.

Coincidentally, one of those Contour Power Grips players, former Team USA member Lisa Bishop, was on the All-Star Grille team that was facing off against the Turbo 2-N-1 Grips/Remerica Realtors team. The All-Star Grille bowlers rolled up a 3,546 score--the fourth-highest in WIBC history--which, combined with Turbo 2-N-1 Grips/Remerica Realtors' record, set another record, for highest combined two-team series total, 7,103. "We didn't know anything about it until Lisa told us," says Ewald, who bowled a 659. "I thought she was talking about a state record. I thought the national record would be higher."

Joining Ewald on the team were Lisa McCardy, who bowled a 813; Erica Mickowski (764); Novella White (693); and Shelly Varick (628).

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