Jan. 31, 2008
JONESBORO, Ark. — Vanderbilt will get back on the lanes Friday through Sunday at Arkansas State’s Mid-Winter Invitational.
The second-rated Commodores, 42-14 on the season, have stressed fundamentals since their last tournament two weeks ago.
“We have worked on basics,” Coach John Williamson says. “We have gone out of sync at times and we think that has been the difference between achieving some of our goals and falling just short.”
The field in Jonesboro is a large one and instead of a true round-robin, the bracket will be determined by a pre-event draw with the winning team determined by total pin fall. Nine of the nation’s top 10 rated teams are in the tournament.
Vanderbilt will travel juniors Karen Grygiel, Michelle Peloquin and Tara Kane, sophomores Josie Earnest and Ashley Belden and freshman Ellen Morrison.
Grygiel leads the Commodores in average at 205.8 over 31 games with Earnest close behind at 202.3 in 32 contests. Peloquin (197.5/32), Belden (197.8/13) and Kane (191.3/3) round out a balanced lineup.
The tournament begins Friday at 4:00 p.m. with five team games. Saturday’s bowling begins at noon (five team games) and Sunday there are five Baker games (four-game total pins) starting at 8:30 a.m. All games are at the Jonesboro Bowling Center.
The entire field: Alabama A & M, Arkansas State, Bethune Cookman, Central Missouri, Delaware State, Elmhurst, Fairleigh Dickinson, Florida A & M, Fontbonne, Grambling, Jackson State, Morgan State, Minnesota State-Mankato, Nebraska, Prairie View, Sacred Heart, St. Francis, Vanderbilt and Wisconsin-Whitewater.