Pride bowling continues busy stretch with individual standouts at Mid Iowa Bowling Conference

CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa - In the middle of a stretch where they will compete in four-straight weekends, the Clarke University bowling teams wrapped up their third and final Mid Iowa Bowling Conference event of the 2023-24 season over the weekend.

In this period where they would have had five weekends in a row in action, some new names found the top of the scoresheet for the Pride as three members of the Pride finished with scoring averages over 200 pins and one of those three also was one of three to finish in the top 10 of their field over the weekend as well.

The individual who both averaged over 200 pins and placed in his top 10 was Tanner Webb who finished with a team-high 205.2 pins per game average for an eighth place finish in the men's field of 66 individuals. On the women's side, both Sidney Pawski and Stephanie Thompson earned top-10 finishes as Pawski had strong showing with a 183-pin average for ninth place as Thompson was not far behind at 181.8 pins per game and a 10th place finish following her Heart Bowler of the Week selection last week.

Not bowling in all five individual games but averaging over 200 pins per game were both Kassidy Gerken on the women's side at a three-game average of 203.3 and Zach Reuter on the men's side at 208 as Reuter bowled the team-high game of the tournament with a 256 in the first game of the day while Gerken produced a 255 in her second game bowled.

Of the remaining members of CU's bowling teams that bowled in all five individual games, Shane Jordan topped the scoring averages at a 14th place 197.2-pin average then Jennifer Hayakawa had a five-game average of 175.8 and Emma Clancy finished at a 172.4-pin average on the women's side for 14th and 17th place respectively.

The remainder of the Pride men's competitors saw Jordan Gorgas bowl four games to a 175 average, Justin Fichter and Adante Jones had three-game averages of 181 and 124.2 respectively, Mannix Amos bowled two games to a 116.3 average, and Harley Redding bowled a single game of 189 as Emily Larson bowled two games for the women with a 141.5 average on the day.

Clarke bowling will continue on to their third of four-straight weekends in action when they head to Lawrence, Kan. for the NAIA Invitational on Feb. 3-4.