Tuesday, October 21, 2014

2014 UCF Collegiate Shootout

The Webber Warriors continue the season with their second tournament this past weekend for the 2014 UCF Collegiate Shootout. The Webber Varsity Men finished 2nd to FSU Varsity Men in the Varsity division, while the Webber JV 1 Men’s team finished 1st and JV 2 Men’s team finished 2nd in the Men’s JV division, and the Webber Women finished 3rd in the Women’s Varsity division. This event was held at Oviedo Bowling Center in Oviedo, FL.

Day one for the Webber Varsity Men started off strong with having leading after the 6 games of individual team games of qualifying by 238 pins above second! The Webber JV 1and 2 Men’s teams started off strong as well day one with the JV 1 team leading the Men’s JV division and the JV 2 team taking second in the same division by over 650 pins above third! These stats are completely amazing for all of the Webber Men’s teams.

Day two continued to have all the Webber Men’s team holding the lead at the UCF Collegiate shootout! Coming to the semi-finals, The Webber Varsity Men beat UCF Varsity Men in a best 2 out of 3 baker match 2.5-.5. The men then get prepared to face FSU Varsity Men’s team. Unfortunately, the Webber Men lose to FSU 2-0, giving FSU Varsity Men the win of the UCF Collegiate Shootout.

            For the Webber JV Men’s teams, the teams continued to work hard and eventually made it to the end of the finals baker 2 out of 3 match. Both JV teams from the same school facing off in the final match to bring home the win! Both teams worked hard and continued to stay in the moment. Even though each team wanted to win, both teams expressed sportsmanship and the Webber Way to the end. The Webber JV 1 Men’s team ended up defeating the Webber JV 2 Men’s team 2-0.

          Usually throughout the collegiate tournaments, a Webber Warrior will not make the All Tournament Team. This is due to the belief of collegiate bowling being strictly and truly a TEAM sport. In order to be eligible for an All Tournament Team Award, the bowler needs to be part of a team, which always comes first being part of the Webber program. However, sometimes the coaches will allow a bowler to make the ATT, which is what happened this weekend. Stuart Snedden from Scotland made the All Tournament Team. In order to make the ATT, the bowler needs to bowl all of the individual-team games to be eligible and then also to have one of the top 5 averages of the qualifying bowlers for the event. Stuart averaged 206.17 for the 6 qualifying games, finishing 2nd for ATT!

Day one for the tournament started with 3 individual team games in the morning, a lunch break, and then 3 more individual team games in the afternoon. The Webber Women started out kind of slow the first few games, restoring for the team to use some different strategies. The women continued to work hard throughout the day and conquered the lanes to sit first with 5,951 total at the end of the 6 games after day 1, being 452 pins above 2nd!

Day two was more challenging for the Webber Women. The scores were not as high and the conditions caused the women and Coach Randy Stoughton to change their plan of action. At the end of the 20 baker match games, the Webber Women were seeded 1st for the top 4 teams of best two out of three baker semi-finals matches. The women bowled two baker games against Spring Hill Women. Many great shots were thrown, but in the end, the Webber Women lost the best two out of three match against Spring Hill to be eliminated from the tournament. Even though this is not how the team wanted to end the tournament, the women stayed together and worked hard on each shot during semi-finals.


The Webber Warriors have a couple of weeks before heading to their next tournament in Marietta, GA. Stay tuned for all the results from the next tournament of the Warriors!

Thursday, October 16, 2014

Midwest Collegiate Bowling Tournament

     Well the first tournament of the season has concluded and the Webber Warriors have started off the season on a high note! The Webber Men finished 3rd in the Midwest Collegiate Bowling Tournament while the Webber Women finished 2nd! This is the 44th event for this tournament held at AMF Bowlero Bowling Center in Wauwatosa, Wisconsin.


     With most of the Men's team being a new and young team, some of you may be wondering exactly how the tournament went for the guys. The Men actually had an amazing first day of competition. The men kept communication between each other and the energy high, which led to the first day finish of 2nd out of the 40 competing men's teams! Even though the team worked very hard the next day, the Webber Men were unfortunately not able to make up those pins to win the tournament. The Men worked hard during the 12 baker games, to move their way back up in the standings. The Men bring home 3rd place for their first collegiate tournament of the 2014-15 season, but this does not mean the men experienced defeat. 



The Webber Women started off the tournament with a bang! The first set of 5 team games was a total of 1146, with the average for the 5 women in the line being 229.2 per person! The games later on tended to get more and more difficult for the women and scores started to get lower and lower as the day went on. However, the Women fought and came out with 2nd after the first day of competition. On the second day, the scores continued to not be as high as the beginning of day one. At the end of the qualifying team games, the women sat in 4th. After the end of the 12 baker games, the Webber Women bring home 2nd from their first collegiate tournament of the 2014-15 season! 

Wednesday, October 1, 2014

The Warrior!

Though the Webber Warriors are starting off their 7th season with the new sponsorship with Columbia 300, the Warriors are still able to utilize the other valuable equipment choices from Ebonite, Hammer, and Track! During the 2013-2014 season, Ebonite contacted Coaches Del Warren and Randy Stoughton about an amazing offer. Ebonite wanted the Webber Warriors to have our own Webber Bowling ball!. Here is a video of three Webber teammates that are throwing the Ebonite Warrior on some different conditions. Enjoy! 

Below are the specs of the Ebonite Warrior 15 lbs.:
RG: 2.48
Diff: .032
Coverstock: Warrior Hybrid Reactive
Surface NIB: Warrior Symmetric 

If you choose to want a Warrior part of your tournament arsenal, you can contact a representative at Kegel Training Center for your Warrior today!