Newton bowlers sweep home triangular

The Newton girls’ bowling team left Cardinal Lanes on Tuesday thinking it lost for the first time this season.

When some of them returned to their home lanes the next day, the Cardinals found out a corrected score pushed them into first place.

The Newton girls are still unbeaten after the narrowest of wins during a home triangular on Tuesday. The Cardinals rolled a season-low 2,123, but it was enough to edge both Bondurant-Farrar (2,121) and Marshalltown (2,055).

The Cardinal boys also were victorious. They rolled a 2,729 and defeated Bondurant-Farrar (2,531) by nearly 200 pins. Marshalltown was third in the triangular with a 2,415. Both the Bluejays and Bobcats registered season-low scores.

“The girls had an off night, but we’ll practice on Thursday and get them where they need to be for conference and then for our state qualifier,” Newton head bowling coach Christie Hughes said. “The boys did great. I don’t think I’ve ever had a boys’ team win against Marshalltown before.”

The Newton boys led B-F and Marshalltown after the individual round and created even more separation in the Baker games.

Jordan Killmer was the runner-up for the boys with a 392 series after single games of 216 and 176. Tamion Adams finished third with a 380 after single games of 168 and 212.

Andrew Wiles (345) and Austin Kennedy (336) were next for Newton in seventh and eighth, respectively, while Sebastian King (322) and Logan Bown (245) completed the Newton boys’ varsity squad.

Wiles rolled single games of 167 and 178, Kennedy bowled a 158 and a 178 and King had a 164 and a 158. Bown had single games of 126 and 119.

The Cardinals used Killmer, Adams, Wiles, Kennedy and Nathan Hauber for the Baker round. Their five scores were 205, 191, 190, 189 and 179.

Marshalltown’s highest Baker score was 204, but the Bobcats did not have another game higher than 169. Bondurant-Farrar’s best Baker game was a 190.

Aaron Ratte of Marshalltown rolled a single game of 245 and had the overall best series with a 405.

Bondurant-Farrar’s Landon Sparks (373) and Evan Shawler (362) placed fourth and fifth, respectively.

Newton’s top JV boys’ team rolled a 2,420. Those Cardinals were led by Hauber’s 353 series and Alex Kearse (327) and Kinnick Pritchard (326) were next. Carter Maki headlined the JV2 team with a 316 series.

On the girls’ side, Newton held a 37-pin lead after the individual round. Marshalltown finished third overall but had the best Baker score of 735.

Libbie Keith led the Cardinals and was the overall runner-up with a 310 series. It was her first single-game score that was written down wrong on the scoresheet.

Keith rolled a 190 and a 120, but the incorrect scoresheet showed a 160 and a 120. The Cardinal Lanes staff checked their scoring computers on Wednesday to verify the 190.

Bailey Hansen finished third overall with a 306 series. She rolled identical single games of 153.

Nevaeh Bown (292) placed fifth overall and the other varsity girls included Beka Weithers (273), Gabbie Humphrey (252) and Genessa Slings (250).

Nevaeh Bown had single games of 138 and 154, Weithers rolled 168 and 105 and Humphrey registered a 142 and a 110. Slings, who was a bit under the weather, had single games of 117 and 133.

Keith, Hansen, Weithers, Slings and Nevaeh Bown were used for the Baker round and the Cardinals had scores of 112, 118, 167, 141 and 152.

Marshalltown’s top Baker score was 168 and Bondurant-Farrar ended the night with a 163 and a 167.

Madison Pickett of Marshalltown had the top overall score with a 316 series. Bondurant-Farrar’s Mack Wehmeyer finished fourth with a 305.

The Newton girls’ junior varsity was led by Olivia Pickerell’s 258 series.

Notes: Twelve students from Emerson Hough Elementary School used their “Cardinal cash” to attend the bowling meet. Each student was escorted to their VIP seat by a member of the Newton bowling team. “Having the Emerson Hough students gave us some great exposure to what the sport is about,” said Hughes, who is a teacher at Emerson Hough Elementary School. “It was wild, but we had a lot of fun.”