Vikings finish bowling season at championships

Skylar Blankenship
Staff Writer

After their success at the NJCAA National Tournament in Buffalo, Hudson Valley’s bowling teams qualified for the 2018 Intercollegiate Team Championships Sectional Qualifier, where their season came to an end.

The Vikings traveled to Stratford, New Jersey the weekend of March 10 and 11, where the men’s and women’s team finished 15th and 17th, respectively.

The men’s team fell behind early in the tournament, but recovered somewhat, thereby pushing their way up to 15th place. They finished 42 pins ahead of their rival, Schenectady County Community College.

The women’s team finished with a total score of 10,244, earning them 17th place in the tournament. In game 21, they scored a team high by knocking down 220 pins.

Both teams played 64 games throughout the two-day tournament. The men’s team knocked down a total of 11,287 pins, and the women’s team dropped a total of 10,244 pins.

Multiple players achieved All-Conference and All-Region honors. The players that had these honors were Gina Patricelli (Troy/Lansingburgh), Kyla Day (Hoosick Falls/Hoosick Falls), Spencer McClellan (Troy/Lansingburgh), Garrett Bartlett (Brunswick/Tamarac) and Donald Baker (Ravena/Ravena-Coeymans-Selkirk).

The returning players hope to continue their success next season and perform even better than they did this year.

We wish the best of luck to our other sports programs and hope they will have successful seasons.