The Webber Warriors finished up their 3rd collegiate tournament, 2nd Tier 1 tournament, of the 2014-2015 season this past weekend of Nov. 1 & 2 at Brunswick Zone Austell. The tournament showed some different challenges that have not yet been seen to the Warriors, but this did not stop them from learning and accepting the challenge from the start!
The tournament took place over two days, with day one consisting of 6 individual-team games, and day two consisting of 12 two-game baker matches against random teams. The pattern was not announced, but through the Warriors assessment, the pattern seemed to be around 40 ft with higher volume of oil across the lane. On day one, the Men started out slow and after the 6 individual-team games,the Men finished the day 6th out of the 22 collegiate teams attending the tournament. Day two starts off bright and early with the Men bowling 12 two-game baker matches, with bonus points possible for each team winning their two-game baker matches total. The Men had 20 strong games, but started to have some difficulties with the last couple matches and eventually finished the tournament at 5th out of the 22 Mens teams, with a 10,925 total pinfall for 54 games bowled over the entire weekend. This gave the Men an average of 202.31 for the weekend.
The Women bowled very consistently throughout the first day with the 6 individual-team games, but the struggle and challenge was still staring the Women in the face from moving from pair to pair. The Women were determined and went in with the strategy of if a teammate is not striking, then the teammate is working hard to make the spare and fill frames from shot to shot. The Women finished 2nd after day one behind Pikeville University. The Women decided to go with a different strategy day two and it helped start the team on with a better mindset early in the day. The Women had some matches that were high and low, but in the end, the Women worked diligently to finish 3rd with a total pinfall of 10,286 for the 54 games bowled over the entire weekend. This gave the Women an average of 190.48 for the weekend. Also, Kamilah Dammers, Senior on the Bowling Team and in school, finished 3rd in the All Tournament Team this weekend, accomplishing something very difficult for how challenging the tournament was at Brunswick Zone Austell.
Also, the Kegel Family lost one of the founders of Kegel. In remembrance of David Jennings, the entire Webber Team wore black arms bands to remember that David Jennings was part of the growth of Kegel, our Webber team, but most importantly, to the sport that he held near and dear to his heart each and every day. Another blog post will be posted soon to detail the life of David Jennings and showing, not just the bowling world, but the world as a whole, how much of an impact he had with his time here.
~ R.I.P David Jennings Oct. 17, 2014 ~
