So school might have been on break but our bowling teams were already back in action for one of the busiest weekends of the year for the teams. 

Saturday both teams were in action in the southwest Michigan conference at continental lanes vs battle creek Lakeview. The boys bowled fairly well but ran into a Lakeview team on a mission. Senior Jack Ordway did what he could in the first game to keep the bulldogs close with his 231 game but it was not enough as Lakeview won the match 28 to 2. 

The girls match was a battle of two undefeated teams. The bulldogs took both baker games in two close ones to take a 10-0 lead. Midway through the first team game Lakeview was pulling away when Otsego got hot and finished with a fury to to take game 1 by a score of 7-2 with a nice 172 game from Senior Alicyn Klok. Game 2 again started out slow but Alicyn Klok got on a roll and strung 6 strikes in a row on her way to a 203 game and 382 series to help lead the bulldogs to an incredible 25 1/2 to 4 1/2 victory to remain undefeated. 

Sunday the teams were right back at it in the BATTLE OF THE BAKERS tourney in battle creek. Over 52 total teams were in action in a tourney of all baker games. Every team bowls a total of 12 baker games in the opening rounds to get it down to the final 8 team on each side. The boys had some really good moments going against a lot of bigger class A schools but still had a good day even without making the roll offs. 

The girls team historically has great success in this tourney even with going against much bigger schools. But today they finished just short of making the rolloffs. Still a great day with Senior Lily Jones being limited due to a wrist injury so sophomore Sadie Jacobs got to get a lot of varsity experience and girls all stepped up to just miss the final 8. 

This week we will have to travel to Niles on Wednesday to take on Edwardsburg in a wolverine conference match and Saturday we will be taking on the blue devils of gull lake. 

What is a baker game? 

Baker game is when all 5 teammates  bowl two frames each to combine for a total score. Player 1 bowls 1st and 6th, player 2 bowls 2nd and 7th, player 3 bowls  3rd and 8th, player 4 bowls 4th and 9th and bowler 5 bowls 5th and 10th frame.