Pride bowling produces quality to advance to knockout rounds at Stout Open

EAU CLAIRE, Wis. - Getting back to action after their first weekend off since the start of their 2025-26 season, the Clarke University bowling teams both had quality showings at the Stout Open on Saturday and Sunday that resulted in bracket play appearances.

On Saturday, the Pride men produced the sixth best score of 4,387 pins but made up ground in the standings during Sunday's baker session where they produced the second-best score of the 13-team field with 2,942 pins over 16 baker games to jump up to fourth place and a spot in the head-to-head bracket portion of the event.

For the CU women, they held stead in the second spot in the tournament standings between Saturday's individual games where they were in second place heading into Sunday with 3,919 pins and they would follow up with the second-best baker score as well with 2,537 to set up a backet-play matchup against Viterbo.

Both teams would drop their best-of-three matchups with the men falling to the No. 1 seed University of Wisconsin-Platteville and the women dropping their matchup against Viterbo as each team would officially be awarded third/fourth place final standing at the Stout Open.

Individually, the top finisher for either team was once again freshman Mia Losee as she produced a fifth place finish for the second time this season with a five-game total pin count of 856 for an average of 171.2 as Jennifer Hayakawa and Emily Larson finishing in 11th and 14th respectively with Hayakawa averaging 154.2 over five games and Larson's five-game average finishing at 150.8.

For Clarke's men, Camryn Stefanini and Austin McFarland finished back-to-back in the individual standings with Stefanini producing 909 total pins for a 181.8 five-game average while McFarland was just seven pins shy of that for a 180.4 final average pin count.

The remainder of the Pride women's lineup saw Asher Merz finish with a four-game pin average of 167.25, Alexa McDaniel had the best individual single game of any of the CU women at 190 in game five to bump her final four-game average to 152.75, and the pair of Maddy Ardiaz and Zoie Swanson each bowled a single game with Ardiaz finishing at 135 and Swanson bowling a 123.

Stefanini and McFarland were the only Pride men to bowl five games but it was Harley Redding that produced the best average on the team with a four-game total of 766 for a 191.5 pins per game average as Mason Trapp also bowled four games to a 166.25 average. The remainder of the CU men's lineup saw Andrew Sass bowl a three-game average of 172.33, AJ Juliano produce a two-game average of 168.5, then a duo of single game performances had Cole Nietert and Zach Reuter finish with 146 and 145 games repsectively.

Clarke bowling will take another weekend off of tournament action before returning to the lanes on Nov. 1-2 when they travel to Cedar Rapids, Iowa for the Five Seasons Classic.