A pair of monster games catapulted Noelle Campos in the individual standings Friday. “I had two 200 games today,” the Kaua‘i High School bowler said with a smile at the Hawai‘i High School Athletic Association state bowling championship Friday. Campos
A pair of monster games catapulted Noelle Campos in the individual standings Friday.
“I had two 200 games today,” the Kaua‘i High School bowler said with a smile at the Hawai‘i High School Athletic Association state bowling championship Friday.
Campos rebounded from a 158 average after three games Thursday to post a 190 average Friday to earn eighth-place honors following the final tally at the Lihu‘e Bowling Center.
Kaua‘i High coach Jye Tabian joked about Campos having the Aiea High School coach sitting and watching her bowl Friday.
“She should have had him on the bench Thursday,” Tabian said.
Waimea High School’s Kekoa Masuda shared similar success after leap-frogging 10 spots to 14th place and a medal Friday.
Masuda averaged 178 following his six-game session Thursday and improved to a 193.7 average Friday for the medal.
Jared Kaufmann, the state coordinator of bowling, said this was a big jump for Masuda, who finished the 2005 state tournament in 65th place.
On the other hand, Kaua‘i’s lead bowler, Jerald Colobong, toppled from his 12th position Thursday to finish in 16th, missing the medal by three pins Friday.
“It was that spare he was supposed to pick up,” coach Wil Tabian said. “There were nine games and somewhere in there was a spare that was supposed to have been picked up.”
Colobong started out Thursday with a 185.83 average, but dropped to a 168 average Friday.
Colobong led the Kaua‘i boys’ effort in the team competition as the Red Raiders finished ninth, one better than their Thursday finish. The Red Raiders ended with a 7,277 pinfall.
Hawai‘i Baptist Academy, placing four of their five bowlers in the Top 15, dominated the boys team competition from the onset. The school finished with a 595-pin advantage over second-place Mililani.
HBA tallied 8,505 pins, led by gold medalist Rich Kodama, who averaged 205.93 through nine games. Other HBA medalists included Peter Mochizuki (4th), Micholas Ogawa (6th) and Ethan Kawada (12th).
Kapa‘a No. 1 bowler Rose Ebinger finished with an average 151.22 to lead the Warrior girls team to a 6,282 total pinfall through nine games. Mindi Agena followed with a 144.99 average through nine games.
Aiea overtook HBA to finish with a 7,444 pinfall to claim the state’s girls championship, paced by two Na Ali‘i wahine, Lianne Deeter (7th) and Holly Somera (14th), placing in the Top 15 individual finishers. Ashley Primacio finished just off the cut in 17th.
