Statesmen to Battle in Addison

Oskaloosa–The William Penn bowling teams will continue their traditions of seeking national supremacy as they have yet again earned bids to the USBC Intercollegiate Team Sectionals.

The men and women, ranked #19 and #31 respectively in the USBC rankings (https://collegebowling.bowl.com/rankings), will head east to Addison, Ill. on April 17-18 for the event at Stardust Bowl. The tournament is a Baker format consisting of 64 total games–32 each day.

The other sectional tournaments will be held at Smyrna, Tenn., Dayton, Ohio, and Dallas, Texas.

The top four teams from each of the four sectionals advance to the Intercollegiate Team Championships, which will be held on May 5-8 at the Spectrum Entertainment Complex in Wyoming, Mich.

The four sites will also host the Intercollegiate Singles Sectionals on April 16 with individuals bowling six games. The top 24 men and the top 24 women–top four from each sectional plus eight additional bowlers based on size of field at each location–advance to the National Singles Championship that begins on May 3 in Wyoming, Mich.

For the men, it is their 11th sectionals trip in 12 years on the lanes, while the women have now qualified for sectionals all 12 years of the program’s existence. The men are attempting to qualify for nationals for the fourth year in a row (fifth all-time), while the women are looking for their fourth trip to nationals (third straight).

On the men’s side, #1 Calumet-St. Joseph (Ind.) will join WPU in Addison, while #2 Wisconsin-Whitewater is heading to Dayton. Third-ranked Marian (Ind.) tops the Smyrna field, while #4 Wichita State (Kan.) is going to Dallas.

Fellow top-10 programs #8 Mount Mercy and #10 Indiana Tech are also favorites in the Addison field. According to the rankings, William Penn is the fifth-highest seed traveling to Illinois.

The Addison sectional includes 20 teams. In addition to WPU and the two aforementioned top-10 squads, the rest of the men’s field includes (alphabetically):

#24 Aquinas (Mich.)
#26 Baker (Kan.)
#43 Clarke
#74 Coe
#64 Davenport (Mich.)
#45 Grand View
#63 Hawkeye CC
#50 Judson (Ill.)
#42 Lewis (Ill.)
#36 Lincoln Memorial (Tenn.)
#12 Northwestern Ohio
#35 Saint Xavier (Ill.)
#70 Upper Iowa
#80 Viterbo (Wis.)
#47 Waldorf
#81 Wartburg

Jayson Miner enters the postseason as William Penn’s top male bowler with a 203.0 average.

On the women’s side, Mount Mercy is the top team in the nation and will also be at Stardust Bowl in Addison. #2 Wichita State will be the top crew in Dallas, while North Carolina A&T will headline Smyrna’s grouping and Pikeville (Ky.) will be Dayton’s best squad.

Other top-10 teams in Addison include #6 Indiana Tech and #10 Baker. The Statesmen are rated eighth in the field.

Other schools that are in the 18-team event include (alphabetically):

#24 Alma (Mich.)
#60 Aquinas (Mich.)
#37 Calumet-St. Joseph (Ind.)
#44 Clarke
#13 Grand View
#61 Hawkeye CC
#63 Judson (Ill.)
#56 Lewis (Ill.)
#19 Lincoln Memorial (Tenn.)
#27 Northwestern Ohio
#25 Saint Xavier (Ill.)
#49 Viterbo (Wis.)
#57 Waldorf
#55 Wisconsin-Whitewater

Three Statesmen average over 180 pins per game to guide the women’s squad.

Sectional assignments are based on Team Ranking System (TRS) 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.

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