With an undefeated regular season behind them, the Liverpool boys bowling team fully expected the same kind of success when it traveled to Utica’s Pin-O-Rama for Sunday’s Section III championships.
Yet the Warriors never could get on track, ultimately setting for third place in Division I (large schools) and Class A behind Baldwinsville and Oswego as Cicero-North Syracuse claimed fifth place.
During the first two games, Liverpool posted solid totals of 1,036 and 1,050, but B’ville went 1,083 and 1,107 in those games to grab a lead it would never relinquish.
The third game accentuated those differences, with the Warriors scoring 933 and the Bees 1,091 to go into the break at 3,281, Liverpool having to make up a 262-pin deficit in the afternoon session to win.
Some of it did got away, the Warriors using the next two games of 1,049 and 978 to move into second place, but it fell back to 943 in the final game.
B’ville won with a pinfall of 6,294. Liverpool, at 5,989, was 55 pins behind Oswego, who ended up second at 6,044 and posted the lone 300 game of the day from Eric Carson in the opener.
Liverpool’s best individual series came from Devin Roberson, who peaked with a 243 in the fourth game and finished 24tth overall with a pinfall of 1,232.
Zak Ormsby finished with games of 227 and 238 on his way to a 1,214 series, just ahead of Josh Winzens, whose 218 and 239 started a 1,202 series. Deacon Roberson had a 1,173 series with an opening game of 247 as Brandon Davis shot a 221 second game as part of a 1,168 set.
C-NS started with games of 1,023 and 1,030, but never matched those totals the rest of the way. Instead, the Northstars were steady, finishing the morning session with 943 before afternoon games of 969, 952 and 960.
The 5,877 pinfall left C-NS in fifth as Whitesboro took fourth place with 5,953, but Tyler Dottolo, helped by a 10-strike second game of 279, finished at 1,279 for seventh among individuals as B’ville’s Tanner Rozyczko (1,450) edged Central Square’s Dimiti Queior (1,423) for the top spot.
J.J. O’Connell started with a 258 and, while not maintaining that pace, still finished 21st with a 1,245 series. Landon Spingler’s 222 highlighted a 1,163 series as Nick Wentworth got a 224 in his 1,142 series. Kyle Patterson shot 891 for five games.
