Reeths-Puffer bowlers Liam Copenhaver and Carter Hekkema earned
bids to the state meet Friday at the Division 2 individual regional meet
in Comstock Park.
Copenhaver and Hekkema advanced to the Division 2 finals, set for Saturday, March 1 at Century Bowl in Waterford.
Copenhaver
finished in fifth place at the regional meet with a six-game total of
1,210, and Hekkema took the seventh and last individual qualifying spot
with a score of 1,182 - just one pin more than Sparta's Gabe Fowle.
Copenhaver
started red-hot in the regional neet, bowling a 259 in his first game -
the highest score anyone rolled all day. He then scored a 202 in his
second game and hung on from there for the state bid.
Hekkema
bowled the day's second-best score, a 257, in his third game of six,
which pushed him into the top seven. He also bowled a 208 in game two.
Tanner Bahr finished 10th for the Rockets, and Quinn Alderink was 13th.
In
the girls' individual regionals, Ella Mattson led R-P with a six-game
score of 981, good for ninth place. Three other Rockets finished in the
top 20; Brook Buchan placed 11th, Rowan Bluhm was 15th and Hailey
Johnsen was 17th.
Both Rocket teams competed at regionals as
well. The R-P girls finished in fourth place with a total score (six
Baker games and two regular games) of 2,599, and the Rocket boys were
fifth with a score of 3,062.
