The Barton Community College men's bowling team had a successful opening road trip this past weekend bringing home a pair of top-10 finishes in the SWIBC I and SWIBC II held at the USA Super Bowl in Dallas, Texas.
Competing as the lone two-year program in the tier-2 tournament, the Cougars managed an opening day sixth place finish over five individual rounds and 12 baker games while wrapping the weekend Sunday producing a fifth place showing in the seven individual team games.
Saturday Recap
Tallying 6,584 pins in the SWIBC I, Barton managed a sixth-place conclusion outlasting seventh place Spring Hill College's 6,434 score while falling 192 pins shy of Kansas Wesleyan University. Claiming the top spot in the field of 15 teams was Drury University's total tournament score of 6,973. 
Bryce Moore guided the Cougars individually with a fourth place five game high of 985 pins in the 142-participant field. The sophomore posted the teams highest single game score of 237 while also booking the highest team 10-frame average of 197.
Braden Boswell and Oscar Rubio followed Moore individually tying for 60th overall each conducting a total of 728 over four games toss.
Fielding a second team, the Cougars earned a fourth place finish out of the seven duplicate teams with a team total of 5,859. Leading the Barton "B" team was Aidan VanMetre's 73rd place 668 mark.
Sunday's Recap
In Sunday's SWIBC II, Barton regrouped with a stronger showing over the seven individual team games with the Cougars bettering their Saturday finish leaping two spots in the 15-team field tipping over 6,299 pins edging out the previous day's winner Drury University's 6,273 output. Claiming the team title was Oklahoma Christian University producing a best overall pin count of 6,752 edging out Texas-San Antonio University by six pins.
Sustaining the momentum from Saturday's top-five finish, Moore delivered once more in a big way earning a third-place finish in the 145-participant field destroying 1,493 pins. The Great Bend, KS native bettered his Saturday team high average with a 209.3 while achieving three games over the 200-mark with a game high 257 in the third of his seven rolled games.
V-Thoon Thanasouk and Griffin Peterson manufactured a pair of solid day two improvements as the duo leaped up 92 and 56 spots in less than 24-hours with finishes of 19th and 28th respectfully.
Unlike their counterparts the Barton "B" team slipped one spot in Sunday's competition earning a fifth place 5,343 dropping two pins shy of fourth place Texas A&M University "B".
Caleb Murphy paced the Cougars "B" team with a 71st finish improving his Saturday's outing by 54 spots.
Barton's next action comes closer to home next weekend at the tier-1 Mid-States Championships held in Wichita, KS featuring perennial NCAA Division I, Division II and NAIA programs.