Statesmen Return to Sectionals as a Favorite
William Penn University Athletics
Oskaloosa–The William Penn men’s bowling program has had a tremendous season and it will be continued in the postseason by competing at the USBC Intercollegiate Team Sectionals.
The Statesmen, ranked #4 on the collegebowling.com website, will travel to Fairview Heights, Ill. for the 20-team tournament that runs from March 10-11 at St. Clair Bowl. The tournament is a Baker format consisting of 64 total games–32 each day.
The other sectionals will be held at Allentown, Pa., Euless, Texas, and Smyrna, Tenn. Top-ranked Robert Morris (Ill.) joins the navy and gold in Fairview Heights.
#2 Lindenwood (Mo.) tops the Allentown group, while #4 Morehead State (Ky.) treks to Smyrna and #5 Wichita State (Kan.) headlines the field in Euless.
The remainder of the Fairview Heights field includes: #10 Calumet-St. Joseph (Ind.), #15 St. Ambrose, #21 Toledo, #22 Newman (Kan.), #26 Wisconsin-Whitewater, #29 Purdue (Ind.), #33 Northwestern Ohio, #41 Wisconsin, #42 Minnesota State-Mankato, #48 Wisconsin-Stout, #50 Clarke, #54 Winona State,#63 North Dakota State, #64 Bowling Green (Ky.), #70 Nebraska,#71 Missouri Baptist, #77 Lindenwood-Belleville (Ill.),and #78 Western Illinois.
The Statesmen will be paced by 2011 Second-Team All-American Sean Rangel (Jr., Omaha, Neb., Bellevue East HS), who is currently ranked #6 in the nation.
Sectional assignments are based on Team Ranking System points. Fields are determined by taking geographic distance, economics, and field size into consideration. To sort teams evenly throughout each sectional, the USBC attempts to place no more than two of the top eight schools and no more than four of the top 16 schools in a sectional based on final TRS totals.
The top four teams from each of the four sectionals advance to the USBC Intercollegiate Team Championships, which will be held April 19-21 at Sun Valley Lanes in Lincoln, Neb.
In addition, the four sites will also host the USBC Intercollegiate Singles Sectionals on March 9 with individuals bowling six games.
The top 24 men and the top 16 women–top four from each sectional plus eight additional men based on size of field at each location–advance to the national singles championship on April 17 in Lincoln.
