VU bowler Brighton Lucas wins at AHBA tournament, Trailblazers place third

COLUMBUS, Ohio – Vincennes University junior Brighton Lucas (Salem, Ill.) led the Trailblazer bowling team in a big way Saturday at the American Heartland Bowling Association (AHBA) tournament in Columbus.

Lucas finished his five traditional games with a total of 1,208 pins and an average of 241.6 per game to claim the individual tournament win in a field of 102 varsity bowlers.

Lucas quickly climbed up the leaderboard Saturday in large part from his last three games. Lucas scored 803 in his final three games, a game of 278 and an average score of 267.7 in those three games.

Freshman Nicholas Gregg (Salem, Ill.) was the second highest VU scorer Saturday, finishing with a total of 1,057 in five very consistent games to place 14th overall.

Each of Gregg's five game scores were between 204 and 219 and was the only VU bowler to score over 200 in all five games.

Freshman Cayden Russell (Noblesville, Ind.) was the third VU scorer, ending with 1,034 with a strong finishing game of 236 to place 22nd.

Freshman Kannon King (Salem, Ill.) was the next Vincennes finisher, scoring 978 over five games, matching Russell's strong fifth game with a score of 237 to finish 37th overall.

Freshmen Dakota Waskom (Louisville, Ky.), Dylan Lewis (Louisville, Ky.) and Jon Starr (Centralia, Ill.) combined to fill out the fifth score for the Trailblazers.

Waskom took the first two games, scoring 359 before turning it over to Lewis who finished with a total of 351 over the third and fourth games.

Starr came in to close out the traditional games part of the tournament and finished with a score of 221.

Vincennes as a team came away with a score of 5,208 in the traditional games, placing them at the top of the team leaderboard heading into the 12 baker games.

In the baker games, the Trailblazers came away with a total of 2,259 pins, for an average game score of 188.

VU's tournament team score of 7,467 was good for third overall out of 16 teams and were well within striking distance of moving up, being just 15 behind second and 85 out of first for the tournament.

The Blazers will look to keep this hot streak going in two weeks when VU takes part in the McKendree University Match Games Saturday, Nov. 18 and Sunday, Nov. 19 at St. Clair Bowl in Fairview Heights, Ill.

VINCENNES RESULTS

VU (3rd) – 1041, 901, 1062, 1049, 1155 – 5,208. Baker – 2,259. Total – 7,467

INDIVIDUAL RESULTS

Brighton Lucas (1) – 218, 187, 268, 278, 257 – 1,208

Nicholas Gregg (14) – 219, 204, 215, 215, 204 – 1,057

Cayden Russell (22) – 209, 194, 190, 205, 236 – 1,034

Kannon King (37) – 205, 147, 201, 188, 237 – 978

Dakota Waskom (84) – 190, 169, x, x, x – 359

Dylan Lewis (86) – x, x, 188, 163, x – 351

Jon Starr (95) – x, x, x, x, 221 – 221