By RAND y WHAL e N For the Bugle
JJC’S Lave repeats as NJCAA women’s bowling champion
Madi Lave did it again.
For the second time, the sophomore won the NJCAA Women’s Bowling Singles championship over the weekend as the Joliet Junior College bowling teams participated in the national tournament at Airport Lanes in Cheektowaga, N.Y.
“I felt that last game of singles was rough since I had been consistent with making all of my spares in the doubles and singles sessions, besides the splits I had received, but ended on a missed-makeable spare,” Lave said of her performance on Friday. “It had been my first open in six games, if I’m not the counting the splits. However, I could not be mad at my scores on Friday. It was a long day having to bowl nine games, but I was happy with my overall performance.”
Through three games, Lave, a Locport graduate, bowled a 196, 234 and a 223 for a final series score of 653 points to repeat as champion. The victory earned her All-American status. She finished second overall in the All Event standings.
“I think I definitely felt proud knowing I had accomplished one
of my main goals for the weekend, but also relief because I had some people telling me I had won the title, and some saying I had come short before the final scores were posted,” said Lave. “It means a lot to me to win this title again because I worked hard over the past year to better myself and seeing that work payoff is so fulfilling. Being able to achieve such an accomplishment and represent JJC in the bowling world is a really cool thing.”
“Joining the team in NY this year, I got to witness the greatness firsthand,” said Assistant Athletic Director/Compliance and Retention Rachel Helfrich Tobin. “I’d seen the work the team put in since stepping in to help manage the team this winter, and it was my first experience with competition at the national level. Even live, waiting for official results was brutal. Sharing Madi’s stress as we tallied scores and waited to see if her efforts were enough. But seeing Madi’s name in the record books as the first backto-back singles winner since the 90s and only the third repeat — I’ve made a calendar note to put her nomination for the Hall of Fame five years down the road. She’s etched in history and I’m ready to throw a parade for Madi Lave Day.”
The Wolves saw further success on the women’s side as teammate Abby Miller also earned All-American sta-
tus after an 11th place finish in the singles competition with a score of 584. At the end of the weekend, the Wolves’ earned their second Top 5 finish in just the second year of the women’s bowling program at JJC with a final score of 11,815 to place fourth.
The men’s side saw an eighth place team finish on Saturday with a final score of 12,741. Sophomore Tyler Richter finished 27th overall in the All Event standings to lead the Wolves.
Cunningham elementart School gets $5,000 donation from new Joliet business
Burlington Stores, a national discount retailer offering low prices every day on brand name merchandise for the entire family and home, has donated $5,000 through its partnership with the national non-profit organization, AdoptAClassroom.org, in celebration of its new store now open in Joliet at 2850 Plainfield Road.
Funds will be used towards classroom supplies to help ensure students at M.J. Cunningham Elementary School have the learning materials and tools they need to succeed now and in the future.
A representative from AdoptAClassroom.org reached out to district and school administrators and helped secure the donation for M.J. Cunningham Elementary School, which will support 34 classrooms with new materials.
“On behalf of Cunningham School, I would like to welcome our new local Burlington store to Joliet, and thank them for their generous donation through their
partnership with AdoptAClassroom.org to our school,” said M.J. Cunningham Elementary School Principal Marysol Sandoval. “Our teachers are so excited to purchase the tools they need for their students this year. We are thankful for the support we received from Burlington and AdoptAClassroom.org.”
As part of Burlington’s new holistic community giving approach of adding value to local communities, and in partnership with their national nonprofit partner AdoptAClassroom.org, they hope to help empower those in their local store communities to live a better life and build a better future. Each time Burlington opens a new store, they celebrate by adopting and funding local classrooms in their new store community. The new Joliet Burlington is now open at Louis Joliet Pointe, 2850 Plainfield Road, and provides ‘wow- deals’ for the entire family and home.
