Pride take on head-to-head competition at Cedar Valley Invite
WATERLOO, Iowa - Back for their second event of the second half of their 2025-26 season, the Clarke University bowling teams traveled to Waterloo, Iowa last weekend for the Cedar Valley Invite where both the men's and women's teams played in a more head-to-head style event which saw the women go 1-5 and the men finish 3-3 in their six matches apiece.
Each participant bowled three individual games for placement with the top men's score in those three games coming from Cole Nietert, who put up a 606 total pin count to average 202 over the three games, slightly ahead of Camryn Stefanini's 599 for a 199.7 average and the 595 total and 198.7 average from Andrew Sass.
On the women's side, their top three individual scores were bunched together as well with Jennifer Hayakawa posting a 590 total and 196.7 average, just one pin ahead of Alexa McDaniel's 589 and 196.3 average with Mia Losee having two of her three games over 200 but her third score would put her total and average at 576 and 192 a little lower than Hayakawa and McDaniel.
There were 14 other members of the Pride who finished with the following individual scores (total | average), Austin McFarland (552 | 184), AJ Juliano (543 | 181), Mason Trapp (539 | 179.7), Mason McElvany (520 | 173.3), Maddy Ardiaz (520 | 173.3), Harley Redding (519 | 173), Bryce Vandewostine (518 | 172.7), Sidney Pawski (507 | 169), Joey Simpson (504 | 168), Asher Merz (489 | 163), Devin Peterson (478 | 158.3), Emily Larson (476 | 158.7), Anna Sickels (467 | 155.7), and Zoie Swanson (453 | 151).
Back to the head-to-head matchups, of the 3-3 teams the Clarke men had fourth-most total pins in their matches with 5,270 total pins to be placed 10th out of the 20 competing varsity teams while the JV unit finished 4-2 with 4,752 total pins as the women's varsity 1-5 finish still had them produce 4,807 pins in those matches, better than four other teams that finished with more head-to-head wins as the Pride faced tough matchups of teams playing well, then the JV women would also go 1-5 with 4,343 pins as a team.
Pride bowling will be right back on the lanes next weekend when they travel to Cedar Rapids, Iowa for the Kohawk Invitational on Feb. 7-8 to begin their homestretch towards the Heart of America Athletic Conference Championships with only two events remaining in their regular season.