Perfect game pushes 'Dores into fourth

Nov. 7, 2014

VALPARAISO -The fourth Baker game 300 in school history helped propel Vanderbilt into fourth place at Valparaiso’s Crusader Classic Friday. The Commodores won five of six matches in averaging 191.7, trailing Wisconsin-Whitewater’s 203.2 pace, Nebraska and Alma.

For the second time in just two seasons, Vanderbilt was dialed in and laser sharp in rolling 12 consecutive strikes en route to defeating Prairie View. The red-hot lineup was Amanda Fry, Nicole Mosesso, Rebeca Reguero, Natalie Goodman and Robyn Renslow. Mosesso, Goodman and Renslow were part of the last perfect game, which occurred at Vandy’s own Columbia 300 Music City Classic last March 9.

“It was an up and down day,” said Coach John Williamson.”We had some very good moments – obviously the perfect game was very special. But even in that 300 game, we bowled just 1,003 in a 5-game Baker. There was a dramatic difference from lane to lane and I’d guess on our first games we might have averaged close to 230 but in our second games, maybe 170 tops. We need to be more consistent; on the plus side, we played everyone, I thought we had very good day-long efforts from Amanda and Rebeca and in winning five straight we have nice momentum heading into Saturday.”

Those wins came against Nebraska, Elmhurst, Prairie View, Alabama State and host Valparaiso. Saturday’s team games are scheduled to begin at 9:30 (CT).

Team Leader Board (14 teams)
Whitewater 6,095
Nebraska 6,012
Alma 5,782
Vanderbilt 5,751

Sam Houston 1,002 VU 903
VU 979 Nebraska 900
VU 914 Elmhurst 838
VU 1,003 Prairie View 870
VU 961 Alabama State 831
VU 991 Valparaiso 901