Five-pin bowlers from Black Diamond Lanes and Nechako Lanes will be aiming for national titles in Calgary this weekend.
Black Diamond bowlers Kassidy Johnson, Lezzyl Aquino, Paige Meise and Shae-lyn Rafferty will represent B.C. in the senior girls team competition, while Nechako's Ben Hendrickson will be wearing B.C. colours in the senior boys singles category.
The tournament - a match-play event - starts Saturday and runs through Monday.
The Black Diamond girls will play a total of 21 games. Their opponents hail from Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Northern Ontario, Southern Ontario, Quebec and Newfoundland.
Hendrickson, meanwhile, will be on the lanes for 22 games. He'll be up against bowlers from Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Northern Ontario, Southern Ontario, Quebec, Newfoundland, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island and the Northwest Territories.
Three of the Black Diamond girls - Johnson, Aquino and Meise - were part of a team that won a Canadian junior championship in 2013. Hendrickson is a first-year senior bowler who will be making his first appearance at nationals.
At the B.C. provincials earlier this season, Johnson and company topped the field with a four-game total of 3,298, which put them 109 pins ahead of second-place Scottsdale Lanes. As for Hendrickson, he posted a five-game score of 1,176 and beat runner-up Kevyn Hoggard of Vernon by 108 pins.
A third bowler from northern B.C., Riley Letendre of Dawson Creek, will compete at nationals in the junior boys singles division.
