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Charles Towell bowled almost weekly doing this time with Margaret Black, Barbara Scott, and Roxine Taylor. Shirley Gray and FLY met during league bowling and Marge Patterson later joined the original members so that they could bowl in tournaments and have equal double partners. As they bowled in other tournaments they picked up more ladies so that they could have more teams. They were Eartharine Prophet, Regina Owens, A.J. Timmons, and Sue Brooks.
That's when they decided to start a club, the interest was there but they could'nt get it off the ground. They continued to bowl in tournaments and had to be called something. So Regina Owens came up with the MAVERICKS.
In 1982, the original five Maverick Ladies, Margaret Black, Barbara Scott, Roxine Taylor, Shirley Wallace, and Marge Patterson won the Virginia State Tournament, and the Ladies Team division of the Hoinke Classic.
All of a sudden everyone wanted to be a Mavericks. Some of the men that FLY bowled with wanted to join the club. After further discussion the Mavericks decided to register the club with the recorder of deeds.
As time went on and they frequented more centers, became known in the area and peaked a lot of interest, the original members began to enlist and sign up others who were interested in being in a bowling club. The club has grown over the years to the 50 plus members currently on the roster.
Mavericks Bowling Club was created back in the mid 70's. In the beginning, Charles Towell, an 180+ bowler, experienced the same problem as all bowlers experience and that is to get other bowlers to bowl with you. Instead of running away from the problem, Charles decided to do something about it. He put together 10 females and 10 male bowlers and started hitting the
tournament circuit.
During the next couple of years, these 20 bowlers would travel from place to place, bowling from tournament to tournament and catching the attention of other bowlers.
In 1980, Charles Towell, was approached by several bowlers, inquiring into joining. Charles Towell was also approached about match games play and setup a match game with The EBONY BOWLING CLUB. Through them, Charles was introduced to the RAIDERS BOWLING CLUB out of Baltimore, Maryland, whom are apart of the ICBC organization and wanted to bowl a match game. Match Games are consist of 30 bowlers, 18 Males and 12 Females. This meant more bowlers for Charles to find and he did.
And the rest is History!
