Men's Bowling has another record-setting day in fifth place finish at American Heartland Bowling Association I tournament

CANTON, Mich. — The Ohio Northern men's bowling team set single game and 6-game series school records, rallying for a fifth place finish at the American Heartland Bowling Association I tournament on Saturday.

The Basics

• Ohio Northern was 5th of 20 teams with a school record 5,812 pins for six regular games.
• Venue: Super Bowl Lanes - Canton, Mich.
• The tournament consisted of 6 games.
• Cleary (Mich.) won the team title with 6280 pins, Lawrence Tech (Mich.) was second with 6259 pins and Olivet (Mich.) was third with 6178 pins.

ONU Individuals

• Sophomore Zander Crouch (DeGraff/Riverside) led the Polar Bears by finishing 26th overall with a 6-game score of 1180 - an average of 196.7 pins per game.
• He rolled games of 228, 223 and 202 pins on the day.
• Sophomore Giovanni Scanio (Corpus Christi, Tex./London) rolled a 1175 with games of 214 and 201.
• Sophomore Sam King (DeGraff/Riverside) had a 1001 for five games with a high of 256.
• Sophomore Jake Manbevers (Greenfield/Miami Trace) rolled a team-leading 267 in the sixth game.

Notables

• The Polar Bears were tied for 10th in the team standings after five games before rolling a school record 1,113 pins in the final game to jump five places into fifth place.
• ONU's previous 6-game team record was 5,678 set earlier this season.
• The team game record of 1,113 was 31 pins better than the previous mark of 1,082 set last season.
• Manbevers' 267 game ties him for fourth-best in school history.
• King's 256 game is the eighth-best in ONU history.
• Third-year head coach Jeff Robinson leads the Polar Bears.

Up Next

• The Polar Bears will return to action Sunday at the AHBA 2 in Canton, Mich.