WCHS Bowling Teams

The 5th annual Middle Tennessee Jamboree held at Hermitage Lanes yesterday turned out to be a good, fun kick-off to our season!  The Boys Team #1 finished in 5th place with a 2788 series, and Boys Team #2 finished 10th with a 2613 - out of the 16 teams bowling.  Geremy Roseti rolled his first 700 series with a great 704, and in the process finished 2nd out of 80 bowlers!  WAY TO GO, GEREMY!  Other good scores for the boys were:  Drew Morrow with his personal high game & series with a great 242-620; JR Clemons with a nice 212-575, and Trent Sheppard finishing off his set with a 201 game.  Good showing, Wildcats!

The Lady Wildcats were having fun as well, and finished 5th out of 7 teams bowling.  A big CONGRATS to Fr. Danielle Chaffin for leading the way with her new high game of 217 and  a 522 set.  Also bowling well for our LadyCats was Brennan Page with a nice 195-507.  Not a bad start for a team that lost 6 seniors last year!! 

Now it is on to our first match on Tuesday, October 9th!  GO WILDCATS!!

WHAT A DAY...no one anywhere ever talked about the Wilson Central team, but they certainly made a statement in a match that will be talked about for a long time - our semi-final match vs. Soddy Daisy!  In what had to be the closest match in TSSAA State Tournament history, our LadyCats pulled out a thrilling, come-from-behind victory 14-13, with total pins tied at 2948 for each team!  Sr. Traci Baker needed a strike/spare combination in the 10th frame of game three to give us the tie for total pins...if she got a double, the match would be ours outright.  Her first ball was a perfect strike!  The next shot was a good one...in the 1-3 pocket, but left the 4-7 pins.  So, as it stood, our season came down to those last two pins.  And Baker calmly stepped on the approach and made that spare like she had hundreds of times before!!  WE WIN!!  Asked later if she knew she needed those two pins for the victory, she said  "I knew it was close, but I just wanted to make the spare."  Brittany Farmer led our ladies in this match with a 567 series, including a 204 last game.  Next was Baker with a nice 531 series.  But the likely "heroine" of this match was Sr. Jasmine Akers, who rolled her highest game & series of the year - a 212-513 which was well over her season average!!  And when you look at the fact that we had to have every single pin to get that tie, you can appreciate what a performance that was for us.
     After using up all of that energy to win the semi-final, our ladies bowled well the first two games of the final, rolling team scores of 956 & 1030.  But even with those good scores, we were down by 186 pins on total and 12-4 on points.  And even though we weren't "mathematically" eliminated going into game 3, our ladies simply didn't have enough left to come back in this one, losing by a final count of 21-6 to the Lady Tigers of Hardin County.  This is the same team that put us out of our first State Tournament appearance in 2005, that time by a 24-3 score.  Still...this group of ladies, almost all of which had no prior bowling experience before joining this team, showed the most heart and determination of any team thus far at WC.  Everyone involved with this team agrees that this was an experience that none of us will soon forget.  THANK YOU, LadyCats, for a wonderful season and an outstanding run through the 2007 State Tournament!!!

Jere McDaniel started the finals in 4th place, but even a new ball couldn't help him overcome the very difficult "Sport" lane conditions, as he slid to a 6th place finish.  Winning 3 of his 6 matches helped some, but with no big games to help out, Jere's valiant effort fell short of the title.  As his coach, I know I can speak for everyone who knows Jere---and all of us say
"WAY TO GO, JERE...We are all very proud of you!"  CONGRATULATIONS to Jere on a great tournament and a wonderful season!!