Impromptu scoring system created by volunteers

By Cort Reynolds

BLUFFTON__The Bluffton High School boys and girls bowling teams lost a dual match to visiting Lima Senior at Southgate Lanes on Friday evening, November 21.

The Pirate teams each fell to 0-2 with the defeats.

“It was a tough night for Bluffton but there was a lot of great bowling by our kids,” said Pirate head coach Ben Nye. 

BOYS RESULTS
The Bluffton boys lost by a fairly close total score of 2,857 pins to 2,659.

The Pirate boys won game one, 915-877. The Spartans came back to take the second contest, 947-920. But Bluffton held a slim 11-pin lead after round one, 1,835-1,824.

Joziah Salazar led the Pirates by bowling a 211-222=433 series. He posted the high Bluffton game with a 222 and recorded the highest two-game series of any bowler in the match, beating the top Spartan by five pins.

Weston Johnstone rolled a two-game series of 218-190=408.

Coby Dailey recorded a 216-144=360 series. Xavier Navarro rolled a 120-203=323 set.

Elijah Nye bowled 150 in the first game, and Brady Montgomery rolled a 161 in game two.

The Pirate boy bowlers rolled a 167-178-150-152-177=824 Baker Series. But Lima Senior won the Baker set 190-215-194-210-234-1,033 with a strong finish.

The Spartan plus-209 effort in the Baker Series spelled the difference in the overall outcome as they rallied to win by 198 pins. 

LS rolled a 206.6 average in the five-game Baker set, compared to 164.8 by the Pirates.

GIRLS  RESULTS

The Pirate girls lost to Lima Senior by a score of 2,285 to 1,309. The Spartans won the opening two-game series 1,584-849, and took the Baker Series by a 701-460 score.

Charlotte Kidd led the Pirate girls with a 135-159=294 two-game series. 

Elana Navarro contributed a 114-97=211 two-game series. 

Laney Kiene bowled a 146-105=251 two-game set. Savannah Grossman rolled a 93 in the opening game. 

LS won game one 822-488, and the Spartans took the second contest by a score of 762-361.

The Bluffton girls rolled Baker game scores of 92-88-91-99=460 (92.0 avg.). LS bowled 115-146-108-141-191=701 in the five Baker games (140.2 avg.).

Bluffton is back in action on Saturday, December 13 at Ottawa-Glandorf.

KUDOS TO SCOREKEEPERS
“The highlight of the night though was our scorekeepers,” said Nye. “There were some technical issues at Southgate and we were without a scoring system, making having a match a little bit of an issue,” he explained. 

“I would like to thank Drew Dukes, Amy Montgomery, Sarah and Scott Kidd, Jenny and Adam Blue for helping out live scoring. With the scoreboards plus live link scoring system created by Marlena Nye, it made it possible for fans to still be able to see the events score as the match was happening,” Nye noted. 

“The amount of volunteers that made this night happen was amazing, and I cannot thank them enough,” he added. ◾️