Season in Review - Tournament Specialists

Here we'll take a look at those high school bowlers who went well above and beyond their conference averages at tournament time.  There are a numbers of reasons why this might happen: small-sample-size luck, difficult regular season conditions, underperforming in conference play, improvement over the season peaking at sectionals, and just maybe some genuine ability to raise their game when it's most important.  Some combination of all of the above, to be sure, across this whole list.

Anyway, these are the bowlers that exceeded their conference average by at least ten pins, over at least 9 tournament games. Obviously, this is limited to those bowlers in my little database; I will entertain any additions that are suggested.


+10
Robbie Wetzel, Senior, Howell
196 conference, 206 tournament in 36 games
Joseph Mahoney, Freshman, Park Ridge
211 conference, 221 tournament in 17 games
Andrew Finke, Senior, West Milford
203 conference, 213 tournament in 19 games
Anthony Fama, Junior, South Brunswick
205 conference, 215 tournament in 18 games
Cole Ludwikowski, Junior, Seneca
191 conference, 201 tournament in 18 games
Kaitlyn Lowey, Senior, Union Catholic
178 conference, 188 tournament in 18 games
Morgan Gitlitz, Sophomore, Colts Neck
192 conference, 202 tournament in 24 games
Eleni Feggulis, Junior, South River
186 conference, 196 tournament in 10 games
Natalie Swindell, Senior, Toms River South
187 conference, 197 tournament in 39 games
Amelia Brunda, Sophomore, Holy Angels
173 conference, 183 tournament in 25 games
Hayley D'Alessandro, Senior, Wayne Valley
166 conference, 176 tournament in 22 games
Jasmine Brodowski, Junior, Jackson Liberty
177 conference, 187 tournament in 22 games

+11
John Reggio, Senior, St. Joseph-Metuchen
198 conference, 209 tournament in 15 games
Eric Lawson, Senior, Warren Hills
197 conference, 208 tournament in 16 games
Shannon Baer, Senior, Manchester Regional
163 conference, 174 tournament in 9 games
Krista Eskow, Freshman, Fair Lawn
172 conference, 183 tournament in 15 games

+12
Ethan Kenney, Egg Harbor
187 conference, 199 tournament in 9 games

+13
Andrew Mai, Senior, East Brunswick
204 conference, 217 tournament in 19 games
Pat Danielson, Junior, Sussex Tech
198 conference, 211 tournament in 18 games

+14
Dan Kenny, Senior, Maple Shade
209 conference, 223 tournament in 16 games
Victoria Vucak, Senior, Paramus Catholic
179 conference, 193 tournament in 20 games
Livia Spalluto, Sophomore, Toms River North
175 conference, 189 tournament in 27 games 

+15
Gerard Chidichimo, Senior, Jackson Liberty
182 conference, 197 tournament in 22 games
Christopher Lopez, Junior, North Bergen
201 conference, 216 tournament in 12 games
Brian Garofano, Junior, Howell
196 conference, 211 tournament in 34 games
Kiara Powell, Senior, Union
193 conference, 208 tournament in 28 games

+16
Julia Kreider, Senior, South Hunterdon
151 conference, 167 tournament in 9 games
Alexis Wands, Sophomore, Jackson Memorial
172 conference, 188 tournament in 11 games

+18
Brent Ayres, Junior, Deptford
195 conference, 213 tournament in 9 games
Trinity Gray, Senior, North Brunswick
179 conference, 197 tournament in 22 games
Rebecca Hoff, Sophomore, Colonia
171 conference, 189 tournament in 18 games

+19
Alex Bursac, Junior, North Brunswick
187 conference, 206 tournament in 12 games

+20
Kelcie Mannon, Sophomore, Warren Hills
183 conference, 203 tournament in 33 games

+22
Tom Laskay, Senior, Freehold Township
199 conference, 221 tournament in 15 games

+23
Michael Liu, Sophomore, Livingston
212 conference, 235 tournament in 15 games
Olivia Ostrander, Freshman, Warren Hills
172 conference, 195 tournament in 32 games

+24
Justin Korman, Senior, Manalapan
195 conference, 219 tournament in 19 games
Jivan Persaud, Senior, Hudson Catholic
199 conference, 223 tournament in 9 games

+28
Preston Williams, Sophomore, Jackson Liberty
187 conference, 215 tournament in 29 games

And the champion in this category, by a huge margin, is Hunterdon Central senior Justin DeMartin. DeMartin struggled to a 177 average in brutal conditions, both at home and in most road houses in the Skyland conference, but made it very clear he was a bowler to be respected with a string of high-level tournament scores. He shot 609 at Irwin, 647 at Skyland, 664 at Hunterdon/Warren/Sussex (3rd place), and 684 at Central sectional. Then, just to prove none of it was a fluke, DeMartin lit up the individual TOC to the tune of 705-657 to finish in 8th place. Altogether, that's a 220 tournament average, 11th best in New Jersey, and gives him a score on this list of +43. Fantastic stuff.