PHOTO PROVIDED Shown are the latest members of the Lycoming County USBC Association Bowling Hall of Fame, honored at a banquet. Shown are, from left, Steve Prince, Susan Klopp Vollman, Diane Twigg Stine and Kurt Renninger.

The Lycoming County USBC Association recently inducted four new members into its Bowling Hall of Fame at its annual Hall of Fame and awards banquet.

Over 100 people were in attendance to honor Diane Twigg Stine, Steve Prince, Susan Klopp Vollman, and Kurt Renninger as they joined the ranks of previously inducted Hall of Fame members going back to 1967.

Also honored at the banquet as the female and male Golden Age Bowlers of the Year: Sandra McGinnis and Bill Meiris.

Association president Rod Furman, as master of ceremonies, handed out trophies to the winners of the 2023-2024 Seasonal Performance Awards.

Those winners — which included both regular, senior and Youth recipients — were previously listed in a weekly Keglers Korner article.

Deb Vincenze and Dave Briggs were awarded Sportsmanship of the Year Awards named in honor of the late Newell Thompson III. Alivia Miller, Xander Davis, Leanna Pepperman and Eoghan Rhoads were awarded Youth Sportsmanship of the Year awards named in honor of the late Carol Titus.

DIANE TWIGG STINE

Stine began her bowling career at the age of 6 in the early 1960s and was a member of the local women’s association for more than 30 years, bowling on many league championship teams in the 1970s and 80s. On April 28, 1994, in the Career Girls League at Faxon Lanes, she became the seventh local female to bowl a 300 game.

With a career-high average of 194 achieved in the late 1990s, Stine won bowler of the week honors many times. At the end of the 1996-97 season, she finished second in the Bowler of the Year Tournament. A regular participant in the local 600 Club sweepers, Stine bowled her 681 career-high series in the mid 1990s.

Stine participated in more than five Women’s International Bowling Association National Championship Tournaments, as well as many staet tournaments and many local city tournaments, teaming with Sue Whitford to win the handicap doubles title in the 2006 city tournament.

Arthritis in her right hand forced Stine to retire from bowling before 2010.

STEVE PRINCE

Prince bowled his first 800 series in his early 20s in 1997, and has since added 19 more, including his career-high series of 833, bowled during the 2014-15 season. With 27 sanctioned 300 games during his career, Prince stands in 13th place on the local all-time list for most perfect games.

His career high average of 233, achieved during the 2008-09 season, was the eighth highest average in the local association that season. He also finished among the top 10 averages for the 2015-16 season and has seven other top 20 finishes between 2009 and 2024.

Prince started his bowling career at the age of 6 at Cloverleaf Lanes, where he bowled his first 700 series around the age of 15. He bowled in the State Junior Tournament in his first year of eligibility, when he was about 9 years old. Bowling in more than 25 state tournaments, Prince remembers bowling a 298 in one tournament in the mid 2010s.

For the last ten years, Prince has served as president of the Saturday Night Moonlighters League at Harvest Moon.

SUSAN KLOPP VOLLMAN

Vollman was a member of the local association for 27 years from the early 1990s to the late 2010s. Her career-high average of 221 captured the local women’s association high seasonal average award for the 2000-01 season, an award which she also won the following season. Her career-high series of 798, which won the women’s high series award for the 1999-2000 season, was, at that time, the fifth-highest series ever bowled by a woman in local association history.

With over 40 700 series during her career, Vollman stands among the top five local women for most career 700 series.

Vollman started her bowling career around 1990 when she first walked into the Harvest Moon Lanes in her early 20s to give the game a try. Between 1994 and 2006, Vollman finished every season among the top ten local association women in average for that season, including nine seasons in which she finished in the top five.

Vollman rolled her four career 300 games between 1997 and 2004, when only two other local women had more perfect games. She threw one of those perfect games on Feb. 13, 1997 in the Williamsport Major League at the ABC Lanes in the same game that her teammate Kim Hamilton also bowled a 300, propelling these two women into the national record books as the first female teammates ever to each bowl a 300 game in the same league game.

KURT RENNINGER

Renninger began bowling in the mid 1960’s as a teenager at the Williamsport YMCA. After some 20 years, he returned to bowling in 1988 when he began bowling with his wife Nancy in the Brandon League at Faxon, as his children were taking up the game in the youth leagues. In six different seasons during the 1990s, Renninger finished among the top 40 averages in the local association each season. He posted his career-high average of 218 during the 2006-07 season.

With a career-high series of 804, bowled on Sept. 17, 1993, Renninger — along with his two children — soon became the first father-daughter-son trio in USBC history to each post an 800 series. Renninger also bowled three 300 games during the 1990s and added two more in 2015.

He also has a 299 game to his credit as well as three 11-in-a-row awards.

Renninger has been a true steward of the game of ten pins, first by teaching his children the game and then coaching the youth leagues at Faxon long after his kids had graduated from that program.

Renninger stills lends a hand in coaching his two grandchildren.