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Monday, December 18, 2017

Late Last Week

A couple of good tournaments ran on Saturday, the Roll with the Indians hosted by Toms River South, and the Simon Baker Challenge at Majestic Lanes.

I don't have full results from RWTI, but on the boys' side, the hosts led after qualifying with a solid 3116, followed closely by Brick Memorial (3088), an ascending Manasquan team (2984) and a very strong performance by Toms River North (2957).  Brick Memorial survived the playoff rounds and emerged as the champion.

Brick Memorial's John Boughton scored the only 700 of the tournament, firing 723, while teammate Alec Hehir (684), David MacGillivray of Barnegat (682) and Toms River East's Dennis Carrino (681) put up impressive series as well.

The qualifying rounds of the girls event was a free-for-all, with six teams in the preseason top 8 all within just 76 pins, featuring leaders Toms River North (2658), followed by an impressive Lacey effort (2639), Brick Township (2624), Brick Memorial (2592), Manchester and Toms River South (2582 each).  And just like their male counterparts, the Brick Memorial girls took the playoff rounds and make the event a clean Mustang sweep.

Top girls qualifying series were shot by Brick Memorial's Amanda Shelters (631), Kamerin Peters of TRN (621), and TRS's Ashley Ferrara (614).

Full team qualifying results are available on the Shore Conference site: https://shoreconferencebowling.weebly.com/

Further north at the Baker challenge, there are no individual scores to report in this all-Baker-match tournament, but it looks like it was an incredibly exciting event.

For the boys, the top qualifiers were the usual suspects for the most part, e.g. East Brunswick was the #1 seed.  But JP Stevens continues to be on a nice run and took the #2 slot ahead of Woodbridge, followed by Monroe, Howell, Linden, South Brunswick and Iselin Kennedy.

Those top 8 faced off in 2-game Baker matches through 3 rounds of playoffs, with the majority of the matches in the first two rounds staying exceptionally close: East Brunswick defeated JFK by just 12 pins.  Linden upset Woodbridge 176-171 in a rolloff after a two-game tie at 390.  Monroe took out EB in the semis by just 12, and Linden escaped South Brunswick by just 9.  Linden did dominate the finals to take the title, with Monroe 2nd, South Brunswick 3rd and East Brunswick 4th.

The girls side didn't have quite as many tight matches, but instead had a fantastic story, as #8 seed Carteret went out and defeated #1 East Brunswick, #4 South Plainfield and #2 Woodbridge in succession to take a very unlikely (but well-earned) title.  Other finalists included Freehold Township (3rd), South Brunswick (5th), Edison (6th), and Monroe (7th).


Other Honor Scores

(some of these may be a week old or even older, as a result of results finally coming online in a few spots)

736-716  Geoffrey Origenes, Hudson Catholic
783  Shaun Boffard, South Plainfield
747  Daniel Lenk, East Brunswick
747  Kyle Bauter, Manasquan
747  Terek Alston, Snyder
745  Brandon Crawford, Snyder
738  Cameron LaPlant, JP Stevens
736  Isacc Russel, Oratory Prep
736  Michael Guzman, Brick Memorial
731  Mark Butler, Ocean Township
728  Thomas McKeon, Keansburg
726  Evan Weinberg, Jonathan Dayton
717  Louis Folgore, Monroe
712  Anthony Fama, South Brunswick
708  Derek Weigl, Bergenfield
705  Luis Torres, Roselle
702  James Stoveken, Woodbridge
plus, a 300 game for Matt Redbord of Ocean Township

728-645  Kamerin Peters, Toms River North
712  Alexa Tieto, Ocean Township
705  Katie Robb, Kingsway
649  Trinity Gray, North Brunswick
628  Kiara Powell, Union
614  Morgan Gitlitz, Colts Neck
605  Alexis Wands, Jackson Memorial
602  Lacey Beall, Union

Ok, rankings coming soon; perhaps as soon as Tuesday.




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