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City girls win Valparaiso Regional

From staff reports

It was quite a day for Michigan City High School bowling Saturday in Valparaiso, Ind.

The girls team captured a regional championship and emerged as a favorite at the Merrillville Semi state, the boys team finished fourth and earned a spot in Merrillville, and Kelleen Miller took home the regional singles title.

In girls team competition, the Wolves qualified for the finals in the third position with a 2,682 team total behind traditional powerhouses Portage (2,747) and Lake Central (2,743) and ahead of Crown Point (2,675). All four teams advance to next Saturday's Merrillville Semi-State.

The top four teams then competed in a stepladder final to determine the regional champion. City squeaked past Crown Point 330-319 in the two-Baker format match. They then trounced past state champions Lake Central, 440-399, and Portage, 357-311, to bring home the hardware.

Junior Cece Story sparked the Wolves in Game 2 of qualifying with a 233 game.

The girls, the Porter-LaPorte Conference champions, and Baker Tournament Championship as well is certainly looking forward to next Saturday with a little more confidence.

“We feel we can beat anyone in the state right now,” coach Loren Hahn said.

Freshman Kristah Parmley echoed her coach's sentiments.

“We have really come together as a team at the right time of the year,” she said.

Junior Kelleen Miller went one step further. After playing out the exhausting team competition in the morning she returned to the lanes in the afternoon and emerged as the top female high school bowler in northwest Indiana.

Miller tied with Crown Point's Megan Fricke for second with a 599 series on games of 185,191, and 223. Miller defeated Fricke 39-18 to get the No. 2 seed. Fricke defeated Merrillville's Jil Larson 164-126. Miller then defeated Fricke 178-169 before toppling top seed Nikki Krooswyck of Portage 198-160.

Twelve girls advanced to the semi-state at Stardust II in Merrillville at 2 p.m.

The Michigan City boys earned their second consecutive birth at the semi-state level with a fourth-place finish, losing a heartbreaker to Hammond Clark in the opening match of the stepladder finals 369-364. Clark's anchor John Rambo doubled in the 10th to send the boys home.

Michigan City qualified third with a 3,105 team total. Crown Point led with 3,206, Griffith was second with 3,117, and Clark qualified fourth with a 3,059.

After defeating City, Clark was knocked out by Griffith 462-387. Griffith went on to win the regional, deafeating Crown Point 374-323.

Freshman Jacob Grams again led the Wolves with a 262 game, and senior Tyler Hill rolled a 258.

The boys semi-state team competition is set to begin at 9 a.m.

In the boys individual competition, Michigan City senior Owen O'Brien advanced for the second consecutive year by rolling a 627 series. Starting with game of 200 and 255, O'Brien was set to head into the finals before finishing with a disappointing 172 game. Other Michigan City boys competing at the regional were Jared Alsip with a 581 (14th) and Josh Bowman with a 573 (15th). Both boys missed the 12-bowler cut.

Bishop Noll's Sammy Krucek dominated the individual competition, rolling a 756 series during qualifying with a 258, 240 and 258 before winning the regional decisively 254-194 over Lynn Strohl of Boone Grove. Hammond Clark's Derrick Bohn was third and Munster's Ryan Slosser finished fourth.