La Crosse, Wis. - The Viterbo University Men's and Women's Bowling season came to an end this past weekend. In their first season of competition both the Men's and Women's teams had a strong enough year to be invited to the Sectionals for the USBC Intercollegiate Team Championships. Neither, however, were able to make it out of their Peoria, IL Sectional to Nationals. Singles, on Friday, consisted of 6 individual games while the team portion included 64 Baker Games over Saturday and Sunday.

During the Singles portion of the weekend it was Andy Mills (Fr. - Onalaska, Wis.) who turned in the best performance. Mills finished in 7^th place out of 160 bowlers in the Men's Division, missing the cut to move on to Nationals by only 7 pins. Mills continued his solid bowling through both days of the Baker competition leading the Men to finish 12^th out of the 16 team field.

Stats for the Men's Team were as follows:

Bowler: Fill % Strike %

Andy Mills 90.83% 48.33%

Greg Pizl 84.68% 41.13%

Kyle Breu 84.11% 41.12%

Matt Krueger 78.81% 36.44%

Jade Lucas 75.83% 31.67%

Tony Berg 67.57% 27.03%

Michael D' Amato 64.29% 21.43%

On the Women's side it was Rachel Schalow (Fr. - Marshfield, Wis.) and Megan Jirsa (Fr. - La Crosse, Wis.) leading the way all weekend, both having Fill Percentages over 82%. The Women jumped out to an impressive start, firing a 798 first block to start the day off in 2^nd Place. They continued their strong bowling the whole day, finishing the first day in 4^th Place out of 15 teams. However, the pins didn't want to fall over as easily on Sunday as they slipped down to an 8^th Place finish out of the 15 team field.

Stats for the Women's Team were as follows:

Bowler: Fill % Strike %

Rachel Schalow 82.81% 35.94%

Megan Jirsa 82.03% 33.59%

Kendra Bundy 75.00% 38.28%

Sam Willingmyre 70.31% 34.38%

Nikki Emberson 68.33% 25.00%