30 years ago

ISHPEMING – Dan Mouch hasn’t bowled very often–or well–at Country Lanes in Ishpeming. That all changed Wednesday night when the 23-year-old Marquette resident rolled his first career 300 game in the Country Classic League. Burying his first 12 balls of the night in the strike pocket, Mouch added games of 147 and 257 for a 704 series. The 300 was the sixth bowled at Country Lanes and ninth bowled in Marquette County this season. Mouch is a regular in leagues at Eastwood Lanes and Windmill Lanes in Marquette, where he carries and average of around 190. Last season, he bowled at Country Lanes just twice, and struggled to average 166. “I originally wasn’t going to bowl because I had a Ducks Unlimited meeting,” said the avid outdoorsman, a sales representative at Nelson Chevrolet-Oldsmobile in Negaunee. “I just cut (the meeting) short to bowl as a favor.” It also gave him an extra chance to try out his new bowling ball, a 16-pound Omega Lion, his first reactive resin ball. With his wife, Joy, watching, Mouch didn’t get nervous about a perfect game until the 10th frame. “The 11th ball was the toughest one,” Mouch said. “I gave it a lot of room (to the right side of the lane), but it came back hard (to the pocket). “The 12th one was the easiest… I knew as soon as I let go of it that it was a good ball.”

90 years ago

NEGAUNEE – displaying the type of basketball that bids fair to place them at the top of the second annual Northern Wisconsin – Upper Peninsula independent tournament here, the Negaunee Lindberghs took an easy second round victory from the Munising Munigrads, 33 to 18, tonight in the St. Paul’s gymnasium. The Newberry Specials also won their second game to reach the semi-finals and will meet the Lindbergs Saturday at 2 p.m. The Specials tool a hard-fought tilt from the Ishpeming City Service squad, 30 to 29. Other games tonight gave the Negaunee Texacos a 29 to 23 victory over the Negaunee Chocolate Shops and the Munising Blue Ribbons a 24 to 20 win over the Negaunee Snowballs. The Blue Ribbons and Texacos will meet Saturday at 11 a.m. for the right to enter the 3 p.m. semi-final tilt, where the winner of the Negaunee Seniors – Marquette Waltons contest will be the opponent. A consolation game for third place will be played at 7:15 p.m. Saturday, with the final going on at 8:30. Immediately after the last game the trophies will be presented by the Rev. Fr. M. A. LaViolette, assistant pastor of St. Paul’s church.