The Wayland boys’ and girls’ bowling teams took out South Christian Thursday afternoon, the boys 23-7 and the girls 16.5 to 13.5.

The boys’ squad remains tied for first place in the O-K Gold Conference standings.

“South was out to get us in Baker game one as they started with three strikes,” reported coach Sherry Miklusicak. “That was fine as we filled the first three frames as well, but a problem of three missed spares doomed us. We were on the losing end, 189 -161.”  Wayland took the second match as South cooled off quite a bit, 165 to 121, and took total pins as well to go up 6-4.

Miklusicak added, “We were bowling on an oil pattern called the Phantom II. Scores were low overall and looked low for the other school matches on the next few sets of lanes.”

Performing very well for the Wildcats was freshman, Louie Harnish, who was in the leadoff spot. He took both of his points very easily, 180-96 and 160-79, despite having his last five frames filled with splits.

Jayse Henkel took both of his points.

Wil Dewing rocked out 202-143 and 170-157, taking both his points as well. He was the overall high scorer for Wayland today.

Zach Straub overcame some initial varsity jitters and won his first varsity match point. 143-125.

The Wildcat ladies bounced back from a dual match loss earlier in the week to league-leading Cedar Springs, taking down South Christian at Spectrum Lanes.

They swept the Baker games 118-114 and 172-100.

Match points were won by Jasmine Ortiz 134-93, Haven Baker 161-149, Ava Harnish tied her point.  This was the end of match one and the ladies had already had 16.5 points and 16 is needed for the win.

Match two was taken by South, but it didn’t matter at this point because it was too late to change anything.

The team will face TK in a makeup game Friday at Hastings Bowl.