ONONDAGA COUNTY – Things were busy for the Cicero-North Syracuse and Liverpool bowling teams in the first full week of December with key match-ups against Salt City Athletic Conference rivals.
C-NS took on Baldwinsville last Friday afternoon, and it proved quite a match on the boys side, with Nehemiah Bachmann nearly getting to perfection and posting the best individual series.
Bachmann had 10 strikes during an opening-game 278, then shot a 257. Only a third-game 185 prevented a career mark, but Bachmann still finished with a 720 series ahead of the top 711 set from B’ville’s Zenon Gasiorowski.
Jacob Calabria opened with a 243 and closed with a 212 during his 649 series, while Garrett Arnold’s second-game 248 highlighted a 616 set and Tom O’Connell closed with a 245 to gain a 585 series.
Despite all this, and despite a total pinfall of 3,561 that beat the Bees’ 3,476, C-NS still lost by a score of 4-3, with Gasiorowski helped by a 645 series from Scott Litcey and 611 series from Wes Lell.
C-NS’s girls team lost 7-0 to B’ville, the reigning state Division I champions. Jennifer Draper had a 449 series and Melody Schwartz had a three-game total of 406, but the Bees had five series of 413 or better, led by Samantha Hass with her 585 total.
This completed an early stretch that included bowling on Dec. 2 in the Holiday Bakers Tournament at Camden’s Lucky Strike Lanes, where the host Camden Blue Devils prevailed.
Liverpool took on Fayetteville-Manlius last Monday at Green Lakes Bowl and, led by Austin Burch and a deeper roster than in years past, the boys Warriors swept the Hornets 7-0.
In all, 11 different bowlers recorded an official game. Only Burch played all three games, his 201 part of a 541 series as Ray Rucker shot a second-game 244, Xavier Theetge had his own 201 and Gianni Queior made his lone game count, posting 212. Grady Foster added a 193.
On the other hand, Liverpool’s girls fell to F-M by that same 7-0 margin. Sara Conover’s 183 game was part of a 495 series, but four different Hornets shot 400 or better, led by Ashlynn Yonge’s three-game total of 479.
Then Liverpool faced West Genesee on Friday and pulled out a 4-3 decision. Tanner Gits shot a 580 series and 234 high game, with Foster getting a 542 set, though both trailed the Wildcats’ Lorelai Leskoske’s 660 series and Alex Bigelow’s 605 set.
