LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Campbellsville bowling traveled right up the road for the Bellarmine University Striking Knights Classic, where four Lady Tigers and three Tigers placed in the top 20 of the respective individual competitions. The women took fourth as a team, while the men took seventh.
The Campbellsville women filled the top of the finals sheet with their individual scores, placing four Lady Tigers in the top 20. Three Lady Tigers finished with pin averages within 0.67 pins of each other.
Keysha Martin took 10th in the 98-woman competition, bowling three games over 200 to finish with 1,168 pins. Three pins behind her was sophomore Crystal Land, who finished in 11th place with a total of 1,165 pins. Just one pin behind her, in 12th place, was Kylah Martin, who shot a 216-pin game.
Katlyn Hoeh stayed within the top 20 with her score, finishing in 16th place for CU with 1,148 pins. Chelsey Stephens rounded out the Lady Tiger scoring with a 23rd place finish after knocking down 1,123 pins.
The Lady Tigers boasted four team games of over 960 pins, capping at game 3 with 1, 005 pins. Their pin total in six team games and four baker games was 8,742.
Lindenwood University-Belleville took the women's team title, out of fifteen teams, with a team total of 9,310 pins.
In the men's individual competition, CU had three Tigers in the top 20, with Ryan Bremer finishing in seventh place after bowling a game of 279 pins, finishing with a 1,301 total pin-count. Hudson Haynes was not far behind, placing twelfth with 1,221 pins. Andrew Lissik came in 19th, bowling consistent games for a pin-total of 1,158.
Zach Prince bowled five games for CU, totaling 884 pins for 52nd place. Christian Thurman bowled three games (74th, 488), and Devon Gunderson (79th, 335) and Drake Tyler (81st, 318) each bowled two games for the Tigers.
On the men's side, the Tigers knocked down 1,003 pins and 996 pins in two of their six team games to end day 1. In baker play, a 779-pin game tried to balance out a couple of lower-scoring games. CU ended with an 8,399 pin-count, settling them into seventh place in the 14-team competition.
Lindenwood also won the men's team title, finishing over the closest competitor by over 500 pins, totaling 10,322.
CU Bowling will now take a well-deserved six-week break from competition, resuming on Saturday, Jan. 9 at the Storm Hoinke Bearcat Classic in Cincinnati, Ohio.