Adams Breaks Single-Game Record in Regular Season Finale
William Penn University Athletics
Indianapolis, Ind.–Stephanie Adams (Jr., Souris, Manitoba, Business Management) had one of the best performances of her collegiate career as the Statesmen women’s bowling squad wrapped up the regular slate at the Backhaul Direct Hoosier Classic Saturday and Sunday.
William Penn placed 24th out of 66 teams with 8,056 pins in nine regular games. Wichita State (Kan.) led qualifying with 9,257 pins and then took the bracket title with a 4-2 win over #3 seed Newman (Kan.) in the finals.
Katelyn Simpson of Pikeville (Ky.) was first in qualifying with a 218.4 average.
WPU, which is 53rd in the latest collegebowling.com rankings, will now wait to see where it is placed for the xBowling Intercollegiate Team Sectionals on March 12-13.
Adams finished seventh in the Tier 1 event with a 205.6 average. The junior highlighted her weekend with a single-game school record of 289, breaking the old mark of 279.
MacKenzie Boyd (Jr., Knoxville, Iowa, Human Services/Sociology) also started all nine games with a 187.3 average. Montana Pence (Sr., Stronghurst, Ill., Elementary Education) was next with a 164.1 clip in seven starts.
A quartet of rollers competed in five games as well, led by Briell Newberry (So., Holland, Mich., Secondary Education) with an average of 175.0. Amber Ovel (Fr., Waterloo, Iowa, Business Management) (172.8), Cybil Lennie (So., Ottumwa, Iowa, Undecided) (168.6), and Audra Farley (So., Cedar Rapids, Iowa, Education) (157.8) joined Newberry with five starts at the Classic.
