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The Flint Metro Conference Middle School League held the 9th Annual Middle School Singles Championship Tournament on Sunday, May 19th, 2019 at Richfield Bowl. The tournament attracted record entries as they had 55 girls and 89 boys enter for 144 total entries, an increase of 42 entries from last year.

The girls saw last year’s runner up make good on her finish this year as Samantha Bean from Flushing won the tournament with a 230 to 224 victory in the finals against MacKenzey Forster from Atherton. Samantha Bean was the #2 seed after qualifying and had games of 237 and 240 to move into the final 4. In the final 4 match she defeated Rachel Black from New Lothrop 247 to 208 to get to the championship match. Samantha had 683 for qualifying to finish 2 pins behind the high qualifer Sarah Temple from Swartz Creek who had 685. MacKenzey Forster was the #9 qualifier with a 629 series and then had games of 220 and 208 to get to the final 4 where she knocked of last year’s Champion grace Lemelin 203 to 180 to reach the Championship match.

Tournament Champion – Samantha Bean

On the boys side Kaden Caraway from Davison had a 643 actual which turned into 751 with handicap to qualify #1 overall by 42 pins over Ashton Andres from New Lothrop who had 709 in qualifying. Bailey Beeman from Lapeer had a 254 actual game that turned into 289 with handicap which was the high game of the tournament for the boys. John Teuber from Holy Rosary started the day with a 122 game and then caught fire as he finished with 211 and 212 actual in qualifying and then qualified #12 overall. John Teuber then had 243 and 238 to move into the final 8 and Ashton Andres 203 and 240 to move to the final 8. Both John and Ashton won their next matches, John won 152 to 148 and Ashton 211 to 204 to move into the final 4. In the final 4 John defeated #1 seed Kaden Caraway by a score of 264 to 210 and Ashton defeated Andrew Parker 248 to 168 to set up the final match. The final match came down to the 9th and 10th frame and Ashton stepped up with a big spare in the 9th frame as he pulled out the victory 221 to 212 over John. Both boys are in 7th grade and said they would like to repeat their performance next year in this tournament.

Boys Champion Ashtin Andres

Congratulation to all of the middle school bowlers who participated today in this record turn out, hopefully everyone learned something about bowling competition and you can use it to continue to learn about bowling and advance to high school bowling someday.

Click the link below to get to the tournament result page where you can view the final qualifying results and bracket results for both the boys and girls.

2019 Flint Metro Conference Middle School Singles Championship Tournament Results

2019 Flint Metro Conference Middle School Singles Championship Tournament Pictures

Trey Williams from Oxford is a new bowler, just started this year but it’s a good bet he won’t stop bowling any time soon after he pulled off a victory in the 2018 Metro Conference Singles Tournament in his home house Collier Lanes on Sunday, May 20th, 2018. Grace Lemelin from Swartz Creek also pulled off a first as she qualified 4th and worked her way through the field to win the girls singles title.

Grace Lemelin – Girls Tournament Champion

Trey Williams – Boys Tournament Champion

The 2018 Singles Tournament had 100 total entries, there were 68 boys and 32 girls bowling today making it the largest middle school singles tournament ever in the 8th year that this tournament has been ran. Bowlers began the day by bowling 3 games for qualifying and the then the top 16 girls and top 32 boys moved on into match play. The top qualifier for the girls was Nicole Kalisz from Davison with a 3 game total of 705 with handicap. Nicole also had the high handicap game of the day as she started the day with a 192 actual that turned into a 274 game with handicap. Nicole was honored with medals for high game of the tournament and the high qualifier.

Nicole Kalisz from Davison- High Game and high qualifier for the girls in the singles tournament

On the boys side after qualifying we had a little excitement as Brandon Hoover from Davison and Chase Volz from Flushing tied for the final spot in the step ladders. They had to do a 2 frame roll off that ended in a tie the first time and then ended tied again after the second time. The third time was the charm for Brandon as he defeated Chase 38 to 26 to move into the step ladder match play. The high qualifer for the boys was Austin Huyck from Carman Ainsworth with a 715 total for 3 games and Austin also had the high game of the tournament with handicap as he had a 208 actual his first game (also his first 200 game ever). That score turned into a 280 with handicap that turned out to be the high game of the tournament for the boys.

Austin Huyck from Carman Ainsworth was the high qualifier and had the high game for the boys.

As the girls moved on in match play the 16 seed Lizzy Springsteen defeated the #1 seed Nicole Kalisz in the first round and Grace Lemelin from Swartz Creek (#4 seed) defeated Molly Peterson and Kaycee Boone to move into the final 4. On the other side of the bracket #2 seed Kalle Harris from Lake Orion defeated Lydia Boggs from Kearsley and Kaitlyn Peck from Oxford to move into the final 4. Samantha Bean from Flushing defeated Paige Morris from Lake Orion and Gabriela Alomar from Bendle to make it to the final 4 and bowl against Kalle Harris from Oxford. In the final 4 Grace Lemelin defeated Lizzy Springsteen 214 to 180 and Samantha Bean defeated Kalle Harris 213 to 193 to set up the finals of Lemelin against Bean. In the finals the 2 girls went back and forth until the 10th frame and as Grace stepped up on the lane to finish she needed a mark to win and she ended up throwing 2 strikes and finished with a 9 count to defeat Samantha Bean by a final score of 220 to 205 and win the tournament. When Grace was asked if she knew she needed a mark she said her coach wouldn’t tell her and she was just happy to come out on top. Congratulations to Grace and Samantha for making it to the finals, it was a fun final match to watch.

Final 4 girls and the high qualifier

Samantha Bean from Flushing on the left was tournament runner up and Grace Lemelin from Swartz Creek was Tournament Champion for the girls.

Grace Lemelin – Girls Tournament Champion

For the boys it just happened to be Trey Williams day. Trey from Oxford was the 2nd high qualifier with a 711 total and he didn’t stop when he got to match play. Trey had games of 216, 232 and 193 to move into the final 4 and on the other side of the bracket the #10 seed Kasey Hendricks was taking care of business as he had games of 200,204 and 219 to move into the final 4. The final 4 featured Trey Williams from Oxford against Cody Summerfield from Lake Orion and Kasey Hendricks from Bendle against Chaz Orsette from Lapeer. The first match Trey won 203 to 182 and the other match Kasey Hendricks won 198 to 169. The final match was back and forth but Trey Williams proved to be too much and in the end he defeated Kasey Hendricks by a final score of 247 to 210. For both of the boys in the final this was their first time bowling in a tournament and this year was their first year bowling for the school.

Final 4 boys and the high qualifer and high game of the tournament

Kasey Hendricks from Bendle was the tournament runner up

When Trey Williams was asked if he wanted to say anything about his victory like he has been working hard on his game or anything, his response was: “This was fun” and ultimately that is what it is all about. Congratulations to Trey, Kasey and all of the middle school bowlers on a great tournament in Oxford today.

Trey Williams – Boys Tournament Champion

The 8th annual Middle School Singles Championship Tournament will be held on Sunday, May 20th at Collier Lanes in Oxford. The start time is 10am and the cost is $12 per bowler. If any of these middle school bowlers plan to bowl in high school this is a great tournament to get them ready for high school competition. This tournament will be ran exactly like a high school tournament except that bowlers will get handicap in this tournament. Bowlers will bowl 3 games for qualifying and with their handicap standings will be determined and a cut will be made most likely to the final 16 bowlers, if we have more than 50 bowlers in each division we will cut to the top 32 bowlers. Bowlers will then be matched up in a head to head competition with each bowler bowling 1 game and the highest game wins and moves on and the lowest game is eliminated. This will continue until we have a tournament champion. The final 4 bowlers will receive a medal and the high qualifier and high game of the tournament will also receive a medal. Entries will be accepted up until 30 minutes before the start of the tournament so walk ins are welcome. Currently we have a total of 50 entries (38 boys and 12 girls).  Click the middle school link to get to the middle school bowling info for the entry form and a listing of entries that have been received so far.