COLUMBIA, MISSOURI - Grand View Men's Bowling Team traveled to Columbia, MO. Feb. 21-22 to compete in the Heart of America Conference Championships. The men went in as 7^th seed in the double elimination mega-match format. To win, you must win two points. Match one is five traditional games and match two four baker games. If a tie occurs you bowl a best three out of five bakers.

Match 1 Grand View men faced No. 2 Seed Baker, five traditional games. Bowling for Grand View, Senior Xander Pickett (200), Freshman Justin Suhr(sub in Freshman Ashton Wells0(146), Sophomore Neko Manna (204), Senior Justin Graves(186), Senior Andru Wilder(204) 940 beating Baker by 17 pins. Second round of match 1. Four Game Baker Match Grand View shot 668 and lost to Bakers 751. The men went into the tie breaker match where they lost the first three dropping them into the consolation bracket

Match 2.Grand View faced No.6 seed Clarke. Bowling the five traditional games were Senior Xander Pickett (185), Starting was Sophomore Sam Kock and subbing in to finish his game was Sophomore Neko Manna(120), Senior Justin Graves(198),Freshman Ashton Wells (134) Senior Andru Wilder (212) with Grand View winning 848 to 817.
Second round of the four game baker match Grand View lost 720/748 and went to the best of three tie breaker.
Grand View kept each match close but couldn't seem to catch a break and lost 192/202, 168/188. 178/190.
The men put up a tremendous fight taking each match to the tie breaker.

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Men's and women's bowling will be at the USBC Sectional tournament on March 13th and 14th. This will be the last competition of the season for either team this spring!