May 18, 2015
GREEN BAY, WI—The outstanding run by Vanderbilt-related bowlers finally ended Monday as Giselle Poss, Brittni Hamilton and Kristin Quah were eliminated from the USBC Queens.
Quah, the incoming freshman from Singapore, finished the tournament sixth out of an original field of 206 of the world’s finest bowlers. She advanced to the semi-finals of the winner’s bracket defeating Kristina Wendell, 736-639, and Natalie Cortese, 696-621, before finally coming out on the short end of a match with the red-hot Erin McCarthy, who ended up as the No. 1 seed in Tuesday night’s televised ladder.Quah was then placed in a four-woman, three-game elimination with two former NCAA Players of the Year, Liz Kuhlkin and Maria Rodriguez and long-time professional Shannon Pluhowsky. The top three would advance to Tuesday’s ladder but Quah ended up fourth and was ousted from contention.
Poss, the junior from Montgomery, Ill., ran into a buzz-saw in her consolation bracket game against Birgit Poeppler and was also eliminated.
Hamilton, the four-time All-American, lost a five-pin contest to Amanda Greene Monday morning, ending her good tournament.
The ladder play to crown the champion will be televised Tuesday at 7 p.m. (CDT) by ESPN2.
