BOWLING GREEN, Ky.– The Lady Tiger bowling team moved up three places in the last day of the Southern Kentucky Collegiate Classic to bring the bronze hardware home on Sunday. CU ended the two-day competition in third place, with 6,450 team points.

The Lady Tigers competed well in the team games of day one, with team three topping the 900-mark with a 906 pin-count. Nevertheless, they sat in sixth place at the end of day after a couple of sub-800 team games.

When Baker play started for day two, CU bowled over 196 in six of its twelve games to give it the second-highest baker total of 2,259 pins. The results combined to boost the Lady Tigers from sixth place to third out of sixteen teams, behind only Emmanuel College and defending MSC champion University of Pikeville, who also took the Classic title.

 "When we started the day today, we were in sixth place," said coach Jamie Lawrence. "But we fought back hard to get that third-place title."

The Lady Tigers had strong individual showings, including a fourth-place finish by senior Chelsey Stephens. She bowled 223 and 202 to help herself to a 953-pin count, good for fourth in the 142-man competition. Sophomore Crystal Land was just out of the Top 25, knocking down 855 total pins to come in 26^th place. Junior Keysha Martin was not far behind in 34^th place with 828 total pins.

Ashley Newman (77^th, 600) bowled four games; Kylah Martin (88^th, 492) and Katlyn Hoeh (96^th, 463) each bowled three games for CU.

Katelyn Simpson of UPIKE won the women's individual competition with 983 total pins.

The Tigers also competed at the Classic, finishing ninth in the 20-team field. CU sat tied for seventh with Lindenwood-Belleville after the first day of team play with both teams knocking down 5,401 pins. Each of the five teams bowled over the 865-pin mark. But the Baker Games hurt the Tigers, as they could not knock down more than 198 pins in any of the twelve games. They finished with a 2,025 baker pin-count, tallying their two-day total at 6,526 pins.

Bethel University won the men's varsity competition with a 7,123 pin-count.

Campbellsville's JV team also competed amongst seven other teams, placing eighth. Their two-day total was 5,738 pins, made up of 3,945 team game pins and 1,794 Baker pins.


In the individual competition, sophomore Andrew Lissik took runner-up in the 195-man field. A game three total of 221 and game four total of 238 helped him to a 1,045 pin-count and the second-place finish.

Junior Ryan Bremer was the next Tiger on the leaderboard, coming in 33^rd place with a total score of 913. Devon Gunderson placed 51st and Travis London finished in 52^nd with Gunderson totaling 864 and London with 862.

Matt Whele (56^th, 842); Zach Prince (82^nd, 769); Drake Tyler (88^th, 756); and Austin Corbett (99^th, 716) all competed individually for CU's JV team.

Josh Puher (131^st, 491) and Hudson Haynes (138^th, 468) each bowled three games and Cam Carder (144^th, 390) and Christian Thurman (152^nd, 330) bowled two games for the Tiger varsity squad.

AJ Ruff of Martin Methodist won the men's individual competition with a 1,071-pin total.

The Campbellsville men's and women's bowling teams will resume competition this coming up weekend, Oct. 10-11, at the Storm Western Shootout in Indianapolis, Ind.