Great Balls Of Fire: Area Bowlers Shine during Vt. Meet
Wyatt Connor
Springfield, Vt. — It was a flattering good day for Wyatt Connor in a Vermont high propagandize particular bowling contest Saturday.
The Hartford youth fought his approach from a margin of 32 into a turn of four, nabbing some honeyed compensation along a way. He rolled 7 strikes in a chosen eight, violence a bowler who had separated his hermit Owen final year.
Connor found his slit in that turn and kick another bowler in a step ladder finals before descending and fixation third in a state muster championship. He went home with a house and a magnitude of gratitude.
“I was propitious only to get into a turn of 16,” Connor said. “I was unequivocally on a corner there.”
He degraded Springfield’s Brenden Willey, 158-137, to allege to a turn of eight, where he faced South Burlington’s Dylan Cota, who had beaten Connor’s hermit in final year’s turn of 16. Connor began with a strike, combined 4 true strikes in frames 3-6, nailed dual some-more in a eighth and 10th and won 203-144.
“That was a small payback there,” he said, smiling. “It’s a accessible rivalry.”
Windsor’s Katey Comstock, who apparently hasn’t met a competition that she hasn’t been means to play, rolled her approach into a turn of 8 where she fought to overcome a delayed start as a round’s tip seed though came adult brief opposite Mike Prim of Essex, 197-185.
“I started out with a gutter ball,” pronounced Comstock, who modernized to a turn of 8 final year, too. “I came behind a small bit.”
Comstock plays 3 sports in winter, including basketball and track, and recently won her second true state championship in a shot put.
Many area bowlers done a honeyed 16, including Hartford’s Mason Holroyd, South Royalton’s Jesse Kumar and Robert Ingham, Windsor’s Tristan McMullen and Ashlee Bly, and Randolph’s Branden Young.
In a stepladder finals, fourth-seeded Connor kick No. 3 Ryan Ploof, of Essex, 154-142, afterwards mislaid to Prim, a second seed, 172-159.
Spaulding’s Kevin Bell, seeded No. 1 in a finals, surfaced Prim, 215-190, to win a championship.
Hartford’s Hunter Brooks, a junior, missed a cut by one place in a three-game opening turn of 32, entrance in 17th. Brooks’ brother, Nicholas, placed 17th a final dual years.
Hunter was 12th after a initial dual games of a round, afterwards tailed off in a third. But he’ll have another possibility subsequent year.
“I’ll try to mangle a family tradition/curse,” he said.
Hartford manager Mark Hamilton, a drivers’ preparation clergyman during a propagandize who has been a force behind high propagandize bowling in a state, pronounced he expects bowling to turn a varsity competition subsequent year.
“I consider a infancy of schools are on house with it,” he said.
Twelve schools were represented in Saturday’s particular championship, and there will be 12 in a state group championship in Barre subsequent Saturday.
Connor is going on a outing with family members to Salt Lake City; Owen Connor is formulation to attend a University of Utah during a start of a subsequent propagandize year. Wyatt pronounced he will make certain he’s home in time for a group championship Saturday.
He’ll leave during about 2 a.m. that day.
“I’ll substantially be sleeping on a dais in between shots,” he said.
Bill Porter can be reached during bporter@vnews.com or 603-727-3225.
