The Wayland bowling teams enjoyed the excitement of the Cat’s Den Wednesday afternoon, but both teams lost to visiting Zeeland.
Boys’ coach Sherry Milusicak said she appreciated the school spirit to get her charges pumped up. She added Supt. Norm Taylor walked in and got a standing ovation, perhaps because of the snow day he called.
“We had a good game plan for the evening and it just fell short in the 9th and 10th frame of the last game,” Miklusicak remarked. “We wanted to get ahead in the first two Baker games and we did. We rolled games of 172 and 211 which don’t even compare to our dismal performance on Monday.”
As a result, the Wildcats were up 6-4 at that point.
“We expected Zeeland would come back in a fury and they did,” the Wayland coach said. “They took 8 of the 9 next points.”
Leading the Wildcats were Joe Laidler with a fine 198 game and Dillon Smith with a 215 high game of the evening. Wayland was still very much in the match.
“We figured that we would come back as we have come back in match two all season,” Miklusicak said. “We were within just 30 pins in the eighth frame, but then our bottom fell out.”
Dillon Smith led our team with a 194 game. Zeeland took the entire match by a 23-7 count.
“I am very proud of the boys performance tonight and the opposing coach even commented on how much we have improved. He said we had him scared tonight. We were 200 pins better in match one compared to Monday night.”
The varsity ladies appear to have lost as well.
