Waterloo, Iowa – The Columbia College bowling team opened up their season competing at the Cedar Valley Invite 1 on Saturday, October 9 and the Cedar Valley Invite 2 on Sunday, October 10.
 
The Cougars competed against nine other teams including Mount Mercy University, Clarke University, Iowa Central CC, Coe College, Waldorf University, Hastings College, Hawkeye CC, Iowa Western CC, and Wartburg College. Upper Iowa University was entered into the tournaments but did not compete.
 
On Saturday each team bowled five team games, followed by 12 baker games. The two totals were added together to get the final team score.
 
Columbia finished sixth out of the 11 competing teams shooting a 4044 in the five-team games and 1909 during the baker games for a total team score of 5953.
 
Katyn Fischer led the Cougars with a five-game total of 830 and an average of 166.0 per game.
 
Sunday, the teams competed in four-team games and 16 baker games. The Cougars impressed, finishing third over with a 6147 overall score (3366 team games / 2781 baker games).
 
Individually, the Cougars were led by Jordyn Czerw, who finished 15^th overall with a four-game average of 179.8. Her high score came in game one when she bowled a 224.
 
Saturday (5 games):
17^th – Katyn Fischer (206-107-145-189-183—830/166.0 average)
19^th – Breanne West (176-210-155-172-114—827/165.4 average) (Reserve Team)
20^th – Grace Kowalski (160-166-161-179-155—821/164.2 average)
22^nd – Jordyn Czerw (152-191-167-162-143—815/163.0 average)
28^th – Katie Leonard (135-135-156-181-189—796/159.2 average)
31^st – Claire Sandstrom (153-160-147-159-163—782/156.4 average)
33^rd – Brianna Acord (166-121-169-152-166—774/154.8 average) (Reserve Team)
36^th – Lindsay Tribble (109-182-159-142-130—722/144.4 average) (Reserve Team)
37^th – Mollie Lynn Goodwin (147-132-111-148-179—717/143.4 average) (Reserve Team)
58^th – Trinity Hileman (86-77-137-138-114—552/110.4 average) (Reserve Team)
 
Sunday (4 games):
15^th - Jordyn Czerw (224-162-135-198—719/179.8 average)
19^th – Brianna Acord (157-195-204-138—694/173.5 average) (Reserve Team)
22^nd – Katyn Fischer (156-177-172-186—691/172.8 average)
28^th – Claire Sandstrom (168-187-159-152—666/166.5 average)
31^st – Grace Kowalski (165-188-146-157—656/164.0 average)
32^nd – Mollie Lynn Goodwin (190-168-153-143—654/163.5 average) (Reserve Team)
35^th – Katie Leonard (135-118-192-189—634/158.5 average)
38^th – Lindsay Tribble (168-171-157-122—618/154.5 average) (Reserve Team)
48^th – Breanne West (160-119-131-146—556/139.0 average) (Reserve Team)
58^th – Trinity Hileman (81-130-117-113—441/110.3 average) (Reserve Team)
 
Head Coach Damon Helgevold
"Overall I felt it was a really good weekend and we got to see a lot. I'm very happy our freshmen could get their feet wet in tournament play and excited to see our upperclassmen get back on the lanes. For as long as we were in the center both days, it would have been easy to just bowl mediocre and not finish strong. However, neither team did that and I couldn't have been prouder of the way everyone bowled this weekend and extremely proud of the fight we showed when things got tough."
 
Up Next
Columbia will get back in the lanes and compete in the Mid-States Championships in Wichita, Kan. on October 16-17.