Lassen Special Olympic Bowlers Travel to Vegas
Lassen Special Olympic Bowlers Mcreary Cowan, Jason Montpellier, Drew Soares, Darwin Hastings
February 19th and 20th the Lassen Special Olympics bowling team traveled to the National Unified Bowling Tournament in Las Vegas at the Cashman Center. The Lassen team competed against bowlers from all over the nation.
In their divisions Jason Montpellier (athlete), Mcreary Cowan (partner), Darwin Hastings (athlete) and Drew Soares (partner) came home with gold medals.
In the doubles competition the team of Jason and Mcreary came home with a 6th place, while Darwin and Drew came home with the silver.
Next year’s nationals will be held in Reno and Lassen Special Olympics hopes to be able to send more than one team. If you are interested in volunteering please give Sports Programmer Carrie Nyman a call at 530.257.6181 ext. 8980 or 249-5904.
Lassen Special Olympic’s Basketball Team will be at Bishop Manogue High School in Reno on March 14th for regional competition, games begin a 9:30am.
Posted: March 2nd, 2009 under Lassen Special Olympics.
