Barton Bowling wraps up fall portion of season with pair of top-10 finishes #GoBarton
Barton Bowling wraps up fall portion of season with pair of top-10 finishes
The Barton Community College bowling programs wrapped up the fall season this past weekend collecting a pair of top-10 finishes at the Bronco Open held at the Pastime Lanes in Hastings, Nebraska.
Battling over the two days with five individual and 16 baker games, the Cougar men compiled the seven highest pin accumulation while their counterparts, the Barton women carded a ninth-place result.
Entering the two-month holiday break, the Cougars will kickstart the second half of the season January 18-19 at the Columbia Cougar Class held in Columbia, Missouri before closing out the month of January at the Eagle Invitational January 25-26 in Belton, Missouri.
Men's Recap
Sitting in sixth of the nine-team field after the conclusion of Saturday's five individual games, Sunday's final 16 baker rounds would fare unkind to the Cougars slipping a spot in the final team standings finishing seventh with a total pin count 7796.
Torrey Lindsay delivered the highest five game card on the squad destroying 1059 pins for ninth best in the 100-competitor field. Averaging a team best 211.8, Lindsay surpassed the 200-mark in a trio of games with a highest 234 tossed in the middle game.
Separated by just 52 pins of Lindsay, Carter Lambeth generated Barton's second highest finish knocking down a 16th best 1007. Lambeth produced an average 201.4 powered behind four games of plus-200 and second game highest mark 222.
Campbell Peterson marked the third Cougar to finish inside the top 25 with a 25th place 969 ignited by three 200-plus games falling just shy of a 200 average at 193.8 per 10-frames.
Fielding a second team, Landon Wareman and Khalil Sanchez led the junior varsity squad with 43rd and 46th finishes behind scores of 892 and 886 respectively.
Claiming the team title was the other lone NJCAA program Iowa Western Community College with a two day highest 8465 with Midland University runner-up accounting for 8173 pins and Ottawa University in the third spot at 8044.
Morningside University's Nick Philthilath bested the 100-participant field with a 1123 edging out Trey Hanke of Iowa Western Community College by two pins while Midland University's Brandon Ogden finishing in the third spot with a pin fall of 1098.
Women's Recap
The Lady Cougars held steady in ninth over the weekend destroying 6440 pins over the two-days of competition.
Steering Barton's six fielded lineup was McKenzie Craig's nine-place finish in the 95-participant field laying down 989 pins. Averaging a team best 197.8 per game, Craig leaped over the 200-mark three separate times with a highest fourth game 216.
Ellie Weeks dialed up the Cougars second highest finish in 37th place, as the freshman compiled 811 pins for an average 10-frame 162.2.
Slipping five spots outside of a top 50 performance, freshman JaeLinn Thetford tossed a five game 736 for 55th.
Chailyn Scott and Alexis Wareman fabricated 68th and 69th placings in their four games tossed behind scores of 550 and 548 respectively.
Host school Hastings College claimed the team title outlasting the 11-team field with 7639. Ottawa University settled for the runner-up spot with 7612 pins while Morningside University falling 192 pins back in third with 7420.
Emaly Kruse of Morningside University took the individual honors with a five game 1073 edging out Kayla Wood of McPherson College's 1036 and Hasting College's Marissa Ruiz 1030.