Wayland High School bowling ace Sydney Urben will make her third trip to the state Division 2 bowling tournament Friday and Saturday, March 3 and 4, at the Canton Super Bowl.
The Lady Wildcats’ bowling team, however, finished fourth for the second straight season to miss a trip to state by one place. The Wayland boys’ team finished 13th among the 17 teams.
Urben, a junior, was state runner-up a year ago and she finished second in the regional meet at Vicksburg Saturday. She finished with 1,193 pins, second only to Jackson’s Kaylee Collier, a senior, who collected 1,282. Urben bowled a 201 or higher in two games with a 224 in game four.
Charlotte, Jackson and Coldwater placed ahead of the Lady Wildcats, who surprisingly finished nearly 400 pins behind third-place Coldwater. Wayland, O-K Gold/Green Conference champion, completed the season with a dual match record of 16-2-1.
State qualifiers:
1 Kaylee Collier 12 Jackson (1282)
2 Sydney Urben 11 Wayland (1193)
3 Lyndsey Spillers 11 Sturgis (1161)
4 Madison Burdick 11 Charlotte (1143)
5 Morgan Bradley 12 Jackson (1138)
6 Brooke Noecker 12 Charlotte (1127)
7 Alysia Vanwormer 11 Coldwater (1126)
8 Jamie Bleiler 12 Jackson (1115)
9 Whitney Adams 11 Charlotte (1072)
10 Kayle Johnson 12 Sturgis (1069).
