It is currently August 21st and all bowling centers in the lower half of the state of Michigan are still closed per the Governor’s orders. It appears that she may be opening some bowling centers in the next few weeks with limited capacity due to the Corona Virus. The MHSAA just released a statement yesterday that all winter sports are going as planned as of right now which means that all MHSAA rules apply so the 4 person rule for out of season applies to bowling as soon as school begins in early September, this will limit any out of season practices for bowling so this means there will be no bowling camps or summer/fall practice sessions that can be scheduled unless it is 4 people or less. Rumors are out that bowling will be limited in the Winter with no tournaments allowed because the bowling centers will have to practice social distancing, so if there is a high school bowling season it appears it will be limited with competitions and when bowling matches there will be no jamboree style conference matches unless the governor lifts her restrictions. Follow the MHSAA website for updates and stay in contact with your high school bowling coaches and athletic directors because this situation changes daily.
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The high school bowling season for all high schools can begin on Monday, November 18th with try/outs or practices. The first competition of the season can begin on December 7th. High school coaches should use the Important Forms link on the lower left hand side of this website to get all forms needed for the upcoming season. The schedules for all local conferences will also be posted on this website as soon as they are finalized.
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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
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