LANCASTER – The North Penn girls bowlers finished in 3rd place overall in the Snow Roller Tournament held at Leisure lanes in Lancaster this past Saturday, December 16th.

The North Penn boys placed 7th, just missing qualifying by 54 pins.

There were 13 girls teams and 40 boys teams with the top 6 teams each qualifying for a baker game rolloff.

North Penn girls swept the first round ousting Sellinsgrove 2 games to none.

Cedar Crest won game 1 (160-124) and North Penn won game 2 ( 197-174) forcing a game 3. A back and forth match was finally won by Cedar Crest( 171-159).

Hempfield went on to defeat Cedar Crest for the tournament championship.

NP Girl bowlers

Victoria Roetman 122-140-148=410 series

Michelle Kersey   127-103-  98=328

Belle Hughes       147-125-176=448

Allison Cox          158-146-127=431

Jocelyn Wynkoop 192-166-191=549

The only other local girls team representative was Pennridge, including high series from Angela Kauffman (464) and Liz Detweiler (460).

In the boys division other than the eventual champion being Northern Lebanon the excitement of the day was created by Pennridge”s Zach Valentine rolling a first game perfect 300, onto a 698 series placing him fifth in the allstar awards.

The Norh Penn boys were in contention the entire day just fell short with some great team bowling led by Colin Nast with a 660 series although teammate James Carnal tied for the second highest single game tournament score with a 278.

NP Boys bowlers

Nate Taggert   138-136-168=442

Drew Massack 192-185-160=537

Martin Grace   202-226-190=618

James Carnal 167=184-278=629

Colin Nast       257-225-178=660

Other local representatives were

Placing 18   Pennridge – Zach Valentine  (300-698 series)

22   Dock Mennonite-  Justin Nice  (624)

24   Quakertown- Connor Williams (545)

Plymouth Whitemarsh 30  Tyler Panzer (585)