Many local bowlers advance through sectionals into district meet

By ROB HAMILTON

The Card­ing­ton girls bowl­ing team placed sec­ond in their sec­tional meet to advance to dis­tricts in their bid to make a return trip to the state level of competition.

The Pirates fin­ished with 3584 pins to only fin­ish behind the total of 3757 knocked down by Briggs. Team totals are com­posed of three indi­vid­ual matches, fol­lowed by a series of six Baker games where team mem­bers alter­nate frames.

There were a total of two girls’ and two boys’ sec­tion­als held last week­end. The top nine teams, as well as a num­ber of indi­vid­u­als, advanced to this week’s dis­trict action.

Mor­gan Edgell led Card­ing­ton by fin­ish­ing third over­all with a score of 590. Esther Elliott was fifth with 553 pins, while Austin Elliott took sixth with 544.

Those three Pirate bowlers took part in all three indi­vid­ual games. Adding to the team total with either one or two indi­vid­ual games were Mor­gan Walker, Lexia Wil­son and Lind­sey Gilmore.

Mount Gilead fin­ished 11th with 2599 pins. Rachael Groves fin­ished in a tie for 28th with a score of 446, while Leanne Flem­ing was 32nd at 437 pins and Mis­chelle McCoy took 38th with 421. Also par­tic­i­pat­ing were Lau­ren Miller, Cheyenne Flem­ing and Natasha Casey.

Tak­ing 20th place was Gilead Chris­t­ian and their total of 2202.

Kirsten Mohre fin­ished 70th with 344 pins, while Sonya Grubb took 76th with 336 and Rebecca Free­man was 84th with a total of 321. Also, Nadia Grubb took 113th with 253 pins. Cassie Smoth­er­man, Brooke Swartzen­tru­ber and Madi­son Mosher also par­tic­i­pated for the Eagles.

In the sec­ond girls’ sec­tional, High­land took the ninth and final team spot in dis­tricts with 2812 pins.

Tori Carmickle fin­ished 17th over­all with 448 pins, while Cassie Brant was 33rd with 415, Anisha Orso fin­ished 35th with 405, Kin­nis White placed 45th with 378 and Ash­ley Koob was 62nd with 340.

North­mor claimed 22nd place over­all with a total of 2131. Ken­zie Cass took 68th with 328 pins, while Whit­ney Layne placed 75th with 318. Jor­dan Swim took 80th with a total of 312. Also, Kelsey Poretti was 99th with 284 pins and Jenna Hykes took 105th with 267 pins.

In one of the boys’ sec­tion­als, both the Card­ing­ton and High­land teams, as well as one Gilead Chris­t­ian indi­vid­ual, advanced to districts.

The Pirates fin­ished third as a team with 3811 pins. Jacob Long fin­ished sev­enth over­all with 619 pins, while Gar­rett Boller took 12th with 587.

Aaron Sanders placed 42nd with 511, while Liam Chan­dler took 54th with a total of 497 and Noah Lin­st­edt fin­ished 80th with 462 pins.

High­land was fifth over­all with a total score of 3696. Alec Har­ris placed 17th with 562 pins to pace the Scots, while Gaige Good­man was 35th with a score of 521.

Devin Schoel­lkopf was 53rd with 498 pins, Isa­iah Whitt took 57th with 492 and Will Schind­ley placed in a tie for 61st with 485 pins.

While Gilead Chris­t­ian was only 25th with 2884, they did move one bowler to dis­tricts, as Sammy Stiffler took 25th with a score of 545. Nick Ker­man fin­ished 90th with 424 pins and Zachary Baker was 113th with 345.

Danny Bruce, Alex But­ter­field, Brad Mohre and Daniel Free­man also bowled games for the Eagles.

Mount Gilead fin­ished 20th with 3219 pins. Joshua Casey placed 37th with 520 pins, while Shawn Con­kle took 39th with 516. Dono­van Goff fin­ished 61st with 485, Andrew Lyons placed 103rd with 374 and Justin Dixon was 105th with 365.

In the other sec­tional, North­mor placed 29th with 2252 pins.

Kathryn Hile was 98th with 365, Austin Yarnell placed 111th with 333, Andrew Yarnell bowled 112th with 324, Jesamie Houghtby took 118th with 303 and Ciaara Moore was 121st with 291 pins.

The league bowl­ing meet took place on Sat­ur­day, Feb. 9 at Blue Fusion, Marion.

In the boys’ meet, Card­ing­ton won the Blue Divi­sion with 4189 pins, while North­mor was fourth and Mount Gilead took fifth. High­land won the Red with 4027 pins. Gar­rett Boller and Liam Chan­dler of Card­ing­ton and Devin Schoel­lkopf of High­land were all first-team MOAC bowlers.

The girls’ meet saw Card­ing­ton win the Blue with 3754 pins, while Mount Gilead was third and North­mor fin­ished fifth. High­land took sec­ond in the Red Divi­sion. Cardington’s Esther Elliott and Mor­gan Edgall as well as Mount Gilead’s LeAnne Flem­ing, were first-team bowlers.

Boller of Card­ing­ton and Mount Gilead’s Flem­ing also were indi­vid­ual league cham­pi­ons in the event. Boller totaled 678 pins, while Flem­ing fin­ished with a score of 610.

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