Statesmen Traveling to Addison for Sectionals
William Penn University Athletics
Oskaloosa–The William Penn bowling teams have again qualified for postseason action and will fortunately just have to go one state to the east for Intercollegiate Team Sectionals in two weeks.
The men and women, ranked #18 and #41 respectively on the collegebowling.com website, will travel to Addison, Ill. on March 12-13 for the event at Stardust Bowl. The tournament is a Baker format consisting of 64 total games–32 each day.
The other sectionals will be held at Las Vegas, Nev., Smyrna, Tenn., and Stratford, N.J.
For the men, it is their sixth sectionals trip in seven years on the lanes, while the women are making their fifth appearance in the postseason.
#2 Webber International (Fla.) will lead the Stratford sectional, while #3 Lindenwood (Mo.) is the best men’s team in the Las Vegas group. #4 Wichita State (Kan.) is the highest-ranked program going to Smyrna.
Leading the way in Addison will be #1 Calumet-St. Joseph (Ind.), while fellow top-10 programs Wisconsin-Whitewater (#6) and Morehead State (Ky.) (#9) will join them there. It is the largest of the four sectionals.
In addition to WPU and the three top-10 squads, others in the men’s 25-team field include (alphabetically):
#63 Bowling Green (Ohio)
#67 Clarke
#51 Davenport (Mich.)
#78 Grand Valley State (Mich.)
#28 Grand View
#54 Highland CC (Ill.)
#42 Huntington (Ind.)
#64 Illinois State
#57 Indiana Tech
#76 Iowa Central CC
#74 Morningside
#43 Mount Mercy
#12 Purdue (Ind.)
#24 St. Ambrose
#34 St. Francis (Ill.)
#45 Waldorf
#62 Wisconsin
#52 Wisconsin-Milwaukee
#77 Wisconsin-Oshkosh
#71 Wisconsin-Stout
#31 Wright State (Ohio)
Jacques Kaune (Sr., Anchorage, Alaska, Business Management) headlines the William Penn men with a 202.5 average.
On the women’s side, #1 Wichita State will go to the Smyrna sectional, while #2 Webber International is headed to Stratford. #4 Pikeville (Ky.) leads the Las Vegas grouping.
#3 Wright State is the best program going to Addison, while #7 Grand View is also headed for Illinois. The women’s field in Addison is also the largest of the four sectionals.
Others in the 20-program tourney include (alphabetically):
#27 Alma (Mich.)
#51 Bowling Green (Ohio)
#25 Calumet-St. Joseph
#43 Clarke
#54 Elmhurst (Ill.)
#32 Highland CC
#22 Huntington
#33 Indiana Tech
#47 Morehead State
#14 Mount Mercy
#44 Purdue
#68 Rochester(Mich.)
#18 St. Ambrose
#11 St. Francis (Ill.)
#58 Viterbo (Wis.)
#47 Wisconsin-Milwaukee
#31 Wisconsin-Whitewater
Stephanie Adams (Jr., Souris, Manitoba, Business Management) is WPU’s best female roller at 194.3.
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 Intercollegiate Team Championships, which will be held April 20-23 at Northrock Lanes in Wichita, Kan.
In addition, the four sites will also host the Intercollegiate Singles Sectionals on March 11 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 19 and 23 in Wichita.
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