Seymour bowlers close out season with wins

The Seymour High School boys and girls bowling teams ended the regular seasons with wins on Sunday at their home site, Starlite Bowl in Seymour.

The Seymour teams bowled five-player Baker games against Columbus North. The boys are 7-1 with their 14-6 win, tallying 1,728 pin points. The girls won their first match of the season with a 12-8 win and 1,355 pin points.

"Everybody bowled real well," Seymour coach Rick Schuley said. "It was just a good day. Everybody kind of did what they were supposed to do."

Other teams participating from the Southeastern Indiana Conference were South Ripley and Madison, but only Seymour and Columbus North had boys and girls teams.

At one point, the Seymour boys and girls varsity teams were ahead of Columbus North 8-2. Matt Posey made three strikes at the end of one game, giving the boys a score of 222, their highest of the day. The Columbus North boys trumped that with a 243 in the final game, which included seven straight strikes, but Seymour won by 46 pin points.

"We've been really having a lot of problems picking up spares," Schuley said. "We were able to pick up most of our spares (on Sunday)."

There are only two official girls teams in the conference, Schuley said, so they have had to bowl against boys in many matches.

"It's very exciting," Schuley said of the girls winning. "A lot of girls have bowled well. Today, it looks like they had some decent scores."

The total pins picked up by the Seymour boys pushed them to first place in the conference. Columbus North boys are now 6-2.

The conference sectional will be Jan. 17 at Pollard's Bowl in Versailles. Schuley said with the conference being so small, only one team from the sectional will advance to the regional, which will be Feb. 7 at Pinheads in Fishers. Individually, five boys and three girls will advance.

"They will have to do what they did (Sunday)" to move beyond sectional, Schuley said. "Our kids have got to stay clean all the way across (in their games)."

He hopes to take the teams to Versailles to get the players adjusted to the lane conditions.

Schuley said the teams can practice no more than twice a week, but many of the bowlers pay to be in a

Saturday morning youth league at Starlite to gain more practice. Starlite Bowl, he said, is one of the few bowling centers that donates the high school bowling team's practice time.

"The more you practice, the better it usually ends up for you," Schuley said. "We've been bowling a lot more Baker games in practice, been working on individual (games). We'll still probably work on, in the next two weeks, spare pickups and do some little games in practice to try to get some targets to throw at."

For the conference sectional on Jan. 17, the team events will begin at 10:30 a.m. and individual games will begin at 11:30 a.m.