Jan. 24, 2015
READING, PA—Vanderbilt won all six of its games and cracked the 1,000 pin mark in five of those matches but in a tightly bunched field of quality teams, maintained its fifth place standing after two days of the Kutztown Invitational. As a result, the best the Commodores can hope to finish is third when the championship bracket begins Sunday morning. The Commodores start off against Arkansas State, the sixth seed.
“For the most part we were more consistent,” Coach John Williamson said. “We executed better on our first shots and did a very nice job spare shooting. We had five good scores; the last game we didn’t execute well but we had ground really hard all day trying to make up pins.”
Several Commodores had excellent days, headed by Robyn Renslow and Rebeca Reguero. Renslow showed why she is a two-time All-American with games of 215-220-190-197-213-178 (218.83) while Reguero continues to have a solid senior campaign with five games north of 200.
Renslow’s 290 – an opening spare followed by 11 strikes – equaled the third highest score in school history behind Brittni Hamilton’s 300, Kaitlin Reynolds’ 299 and matching Amanda Fry’s 290.
Renslow placed fourth individually behind UMES pace-setter Maria Alvarado, who averaged a nifty 226.3. Reguero was 25th, Katie Stark 28th and Fry 29th in the massive field.
Williamson was particularly pleased with his team’s huge comeback in the fourth game against a good Sacred Heart team that led by 80 pins with just three frames remaining. Fry had begun the game with the front five but in the final frames, the last section of the Vandy lineup was big. Reguero had a double in the ninth and tenth, Poss closed with five in a row and Renslow recorded strikes in the eighth, ninth and tenth. That was 10 strikes and enough to not only wipe out the big deficit but win by 28.
Sunday’s first game begins at 8:25 a.m. (ET), best four-of-seven Bakers. It can be watched on the Vanderbilt bowling USTREAM channel and results will be posted on Twitter. Bowl.com also has its cameras and Lucas Wiseman on hand to stream action including the championship game.
Team Leaders (28 competing)
Central Missouri (11-1) 12,586
Fairleigh Dickinson (9-3) 12,399
Maryland-Eastern Shore (9-2) 12,357
Whitewater (9-2) 12,302
Vanderbilt (10-2) 12,177
Vanderbilt Results
VU 1,085 Monmouth 875
Fry 226
Stark 236
Reguero 204
Poss 211
Renslow 215
VU 1,037 St. Francis Brooklyn 998
Fry 183
Stark 194
Reguero 222
Poss 204
Renslow 220
VU 1,033 Morgan State 802
Fry 173
Stark 189
Reguero 209
Poss 172
Renslow 290
VU1,018 Sacred Heart 990
Fry 221
Stark 158
Reguero 212
Poss 230
Renslow 197
VU1,059 LIU-Brooklyn 929
Fry 222
Stark 248
Poss 171
Renslow 213
VU 900 Kutztown 842
Fry 172
Stark 191
Reguero 182
Poss 177
Renslow 178
