SWAC Bowling Wide Open After West Round Up

Bowling

Courtesy: Jackson State Athletics Media
Release: 01/20/2013

Courtesy:Jackson State Athletics Media

BATON ROUGE, La. -The standings in Southwestern Athletic Conference bowling are all jammed up after the first round-up of the season. No clear favorite emerged as the seven women's bowling teams battered each other over the weekend.

After the first day, Alabama A&M was 4-0 and leading the pack. Since then, the pack caught up and once the oil was burned off the lanes and the pins stopped flying, Alabama State had overtaken the Lady Bulldogs. The Lady Hornets ended the weekend tied with A&M at 8-4, but holds the edge in pinfall 12,753 to 12,583.

Although they finished the weekend with the second least pins with 11,915, Southern is tucked in snug at 7-5.Meanwhile, there is a three-way tie at fourth place between defending SWAC champion Prairie View (12,582), Texas Southern (12,280) and Jackson State (12,198) with records of 6-6. On the outside looking in is Grambling at 1-11.

The Lady Hornets had the highest game of the weekend, knocking down 1,057 pins against PVAM. PVAM had the next two highest games of 1,028 and 1,024.

Individually, the high roller for the weekend was Dyanna Scott of Jackson State. She finished the round-up with a pinfall of 2,747. Brianna Wells of Alabama State was second with 2,694 pins, while Rebecca Goodwin of Alabama A&M finished third with 2,673 pins.

Wells had the high game for the three-day event, lighting up the scoresheet for a 266. Ashle Reid of PVAM had the second highest game at 252, while Brianna LeForbes of Texas Southern had the third highest game at 247.

There is one more round-up on the schedule. The seven teams will meet again on Feb. 15-17 at Fannin Lanesin Jackson, Miss. for the East Round-up. The top six teams in the combined round-ups will advance to the SWAC Bowling Championship on March 22-24 at Vestavia Lanes in Birmingham, Ala.

Sunday - January 20

ROUND ONE
Alabama State - 966, Texas Southern - 828
Prairie View A&M - 1024, Southern - 804
Grambling State - 780 (No Contest)
Alabama A&M - 865, Jackson State - 789

ROUND TWO
Texas Southern - 941, Prairie View A&M - 848
Alabama A&M - 938, Grambling State - 756
Jackson State - 904 (No Contest)
Alabama State - 862 (96), Southern - 862 (83)

ROUND THREE
Jackson State - 899, Southern - 880
Grambling State - 872, Texas Southern - 832
Alabama State - 923 (No Contest)
Prairie View A&M - 860, Alabama A&M - 828

ROUND FOUR
Texas Southern - 897, Alabama A&M - 859
Prairie View A&M - 767, Grambling State - 761
Soouthern - 873 (No Contest)
Alabama State - 900, Jackson State - 796

Saturday - January 19

ROUND ONE
Texas Southern - 847, Grambling State - 817
Southern - 887 , Jackson State - 832
Alabama State - 981 (No Contest)
Prairie View A&M - 949, Alabama A&M - 916

ROUND TWO
Alabama A&M - 925, Texas Southern - 922
Southern - 767 (No Contest)
Alabama State - 891, Jackson State - 881
Prairie View A&M - 950, Grambling State - 753

ROUND THREE
Alabama A&M - 925, Alabama State - 855
Prairie View A&M - 889 (No Contest)
Jackson State - 936, Grambling State - 785
Southern - 931, Texas Southern - 800

ROUND FOUR
Prairie View A&M - 913, Alabama State - 838
Southern - 837, Grambling State - 836
Texas Southern - 988, Jackson State - 918
Alabama A&M - 924 (No Contest)

ROUND FIVE
Alabama State - 910, Grambling State - 742
Southern - 852, Alabama A&M - 841
Jackson State - 821, Prairie View A&M 801
Texas Southern - 835 (No Contest)

January 18

ROUND ONE
Texas Southern - 866, Southern - 787
Jackson State - 874 , Grambling State - 820
Alabama A&M - 950, Alabama State - 881
Prairie View A&M (No Contest)

ROUND TWO
Southern - 922, Grambling State - 799
Jackson State - 925, Texas Southern - 863
Alabama State - 1057, Prairie View A&M - 1028
Alabama A&M - 842 (No Contest)

ROUND THREE
Jackson State - 875, Prairie View A&M - 813
Texas Southern - 846 (No Contest)
Alabama State - 858, Grambling State - 736
Alabama A&M - 911, Southern - 892

ROUND FOUR
Alabama A&M - 915, Jackson State - 868
Grambling State - 757 (No Contest)
Alabama State - 933, Texas Southern - 837
Southern - 878, Prairie View A&M - 850

ROUND FIVE
Jackson State - 871 (No Contest)
Alabama A&M - 891, Grambling State - 759
Texas Southern - 969, Prairie View A&M 963
Southern - 909, Alabama State - 898