Back to the Lanes

So nice to have scores & performances to report, and a Big North team and a GMC senior have given us plenty to work with.

Let's start on the girls side, where the headliner is South Brunswick senior Emily Alvarez, who came in to yesterday's match with JP Stevens averaging around 180, but a had a huge day to remember, shooting 300 in game one and carrying through with a 750 series (incidentally leading SB to their highest score of the season, 2451).

#13 Holy Angels is taking their turn at looking like the best team in the Big North, with a pair of 7-0 victories that totaled 2072 & 2122 (4-bowler matches).  #8 Wayne Valley & #9 Teaneck each won matches 7-0, but without AHA's firepower (this time).

#1 Brick Memorial stayed undefeated with a 2830 to defeat TRE 3-0, while #6 TRS (2525) and #7 TRN (2576) swept as well. Southern shot 2370 in defeat.

600s:

Natalie Swindell, Toms River South  601
Kamerin Peters, Toms River North  608
Ashley Hess, Southern  621

The #13 Indian Hills boys look like a team with something to prove, coming out of the second half gate with a white-hot 4-man 2766. Joe Morando (702), Jack Miller (690), Ryan McGuire (680) and Jared Duncan (694) put it all together for one match, and then came back the next day with an impressive 2516.

I don't know that #4 Brick Memorial has anything to prove to anyone, but they showed something by firing 3141 without star Andrew Lazarchick (who's busy competing in the Team USA Trials, which is probably the best reason to miss a high school match I've ever heard). Alec Hehir's 745 led the Mustangs.

Each of the rest of the top 10 teams in action, #2 Shawnee, #5 TRS, #6 Manasquan, #10 South Brunswick, were all right around 3000.

Manasquan's win over #19 St. Rose was notable, not just because they were 3 tight games, but because it marked the 2017 debut of St. Rose's talented sophomore Joe Ocello, back from the mandatory transfer sitout. St. Rose was already dangerous.

Also dangerous: #15 Montville and their star Erik Katterman. Erik fired a big 751 and his team shot 3069 to defeat Morris Knolls; they're now 56-0 in the NJAC-South.  Sussex Tech's up-and-down season swung back up with a 3073 in a win over Lenape Valley.  Last year's state champs have a chnace to be right in it again.

Other 700s:

Jordan Shackleford, Westampton Tech  735
Kyle Oliveri, Toms River South  704

Thanks once again to the coaches who responded to this week's email blast.  I got a few new info links and a lot of well wishes.  Thanks to anyone who followed the link, really.