The Heritage Traditional

Congratulations to these 4 guys for qualifying for Tour Finals.

It was a great battle, well done.

Congratulations and good luck in September.

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Today we hosted our inaugural Tour Finals Play-In Event! We had a great time trying out something new, and saw even more great bowling. After 3 rounds, 17 games of bowling and some incredibly tight moments, we have our 4 Winners moving on to the Tour Finals for the 2025-2026 season.

Congratulations to Thomas Tomkins, Bradley Wilton, Colton Youzwa, and Tim Wiseman. These 4 rose to the top and played incredibly to claim the 4 spots up for grabs today.

See you all in Medicine Hat after the summer!

Well another year has come and gone, and we wouldn't be the Heritage Traditional if we weren't trying something new.

This year we implemented a new multi play entry option. Your options were to pay $275 for a single shift or $375 with unlimited shifts. The Unique number of bowlers wasn't where we had hoped or anticipated, but we understand this happens when you try new things, but we did come close. We had 94 Unique bowlers and 259 entrys. There were 7 ppl that paid single shift at $275 and 87 ppl that paid the multi play at $375. And for those that are curious, yes we did have 2 ppl that 6 shifted it.

We want to thank the Arndt Family for their continued sponsorship towards the Rising Star Athlete. This year the winning recipient was Nick Szesorak, who is in our YBC program and 15yrs of age. Nick bowled his highest game ever with a 400 in game 7, and just missed the cut. He did however earn his spot to play in the consolation and won his first game, but sadly lost out in the 2nd round. We are so proud of Nick and cannot wait to see what the future holds for this talented bowler.

Thank you to Karie Kreutz with 5Pin Universe for all the amazing streaming for live feeds. Your dedication to help share these games across the country is so amazing and we all are so thankful.

Thank you to WCBT for being on location and having the updated membership points for all to see and the entertaining commentary during playoffs, as well as having the merchandise table on site.

Thank you to Shelby Chrest with Heritage Lanes and his amazing staff offering top notch hospitality and being such gracious hosts. Your center by far has the best food there is at an alley. Your staff is so friendly and always on top of things.

Thank you to Mitch Rioux for being my ride or die once again this year and being on top of things stats wise. You are always so fast with getting everything posted and we all appreciate having our stats stat LOLOLOL. Couldn't have done this without you. Thank you to your wife Shelby for allowing you the time away.

Massive thank you to my work Russel Metals for your generous donation of being our Title Sponsor, we cannot thank you enough for your ongoing support.

Thank you Stacey Sanderson with Diamond Ladies Classic for your sponsorship of our High Rollers Doubles Event, we love when 2 events can partner up and support each other. As well as thank you to All Star Sales for their $1000 High Single Donation.

Now that we have acknowledged all these amazing supporters. It is now time to reconize all you amazing bowlers.

Congratulations once again to Greg Degrazia for being this years 2026 Heritage Traditional Champion. This is Greg's 2nd time winning this tournament. Shoutout to Brett Mapstone for being runner up. You both did amazing to get to that final game.

Congratulations to Dwayne Gelardi and Colton Youzwa on winning Doubles, winning $2550.

Congratulations to Shelby Chrest on his Perfect Game on Friday mornings shift, winning himself $10,000. Shelby would have won the high single game and donated it back up for grabs. So the All Star Sales Winner of the $1000 is Rylan Willier, Congratulations Rylan. Not only have you won that but you are also the high game for the 25% of the Perfect Game Pot that was restarted, winning yourself $530. You are now $1530 richer :)

Speaking of Perfect Games. We had 4 other PG attempts after Shelby won, with all these guys giving it a go, Dwayne Gelardi, Dan Taylor, Brad Wilton and Rylan Willier.

Before I move on, I just have to thank Shelby again for his generous donation of lineage. He was already going to cap lineage at $6000 but when the unique numbers didn't quite make the # we were hoping and with making the cut $ higher, the prize money was then lower. So Shelby graciously donated the lineage back into prize money. So thank you Shelby for that.

If you are still with me reading, I am about to blow your mind with some crazy #'s for this past week.

The cut this year was 2276 (the highest one yet, that we know of. I may be wrong) That is just insane, thats an avg of 284. Rylan Willier was top qualifier with a 2584 with an avg of 323.

THUR AM - 300's - 37

FRI AM - 300's - 54
- 400's - Shelby Chrest 450 and Kyle Young 401

FRI 1:30pm - 300's 71
- 400's - Rylan Willier 418, 430, Will Thompson 402, Don Salmond 403, Tim Phillips 410

FRI 7:30pm - 300's 74
- 400's - Nick Szesorak 400, Derek Home 403, Sasha Letendre 425

SAT AM - 300's - 73
- 400's - Brandon Hagen 420, Dan Taylor 410

SAT PM - 300's - 89

That is 398 games in the 300's and 12 games in the 400's just in the qualifying rounds.

Playoff Rounds of 32's
300's - 68
400's - Bobby Kyte 425, Conner Leavitt 402, Rob Clark 410, Brett Mapstone 410

Playoff Rounds of 16's
300's - 31
400's - Brett Mapstone 415, Dwayne Gelardi 413

Playoff Rounds of 8's
300's - 23
400's - Will Thompson 400

Playoff Rounds of 4's
300's - 2

Thats a total of 124 300+ games and 7 400+ games during Playoffs.

Thats not even including any numbers from the Doubles event. It was so amazing seeing all the games being bowled.

Thank you to everyone that came out and supported us for another year and beared with us with all these new ideas we had. We hope everyone has safe travels home and good luck to all that are playing in the Play Ins tomorrow.

We look forward to seeing who our top 16 will be at Tour Finals which will take place in Medicine Hat the day before the Beef Bowl.

Have a great summer everyone,

Cindy

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Congratulations to our Heritage Traditional 2026 Winner - Greg Degrazia!!!!

Shoutout to Brett Mapstone with a close game being Runner Up.

Final Game Greg 292 to Brett 287

Round of 4's is over, Congratulations to Greg Degrazia and Brett Mapstone who will move on to the finals.

Round of 4's after Game 2

Round of 8's are done, we will be moving on to the 4's just after 6pm

Round of 8's after Game 6

Round of 8's after 5

8's after 3 games