Drury High Captures First State Bowling Championship
NORTH ADAMS, Mass. — The Drury Blue Devils bowling team captured the 2012 Massachusetts State High School Bowling Title last weekend.The team traveled on March 3-4 to Gardner Ten Pins in Gardner, where they outpaced 15 other high schools to take the state title for the first time.
Berkshire County showed how strong the local high school bowling program is by filling all four top spots after the preliminary rounds of match play and Baker matches. Pittsfield High (3037 pins), Lee High (2953 pins), Drury (2939) and Taconic High (2935 pins) advanced out of the preliminary rounds to a stepladder format.
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This year's Drury team rebounded from a 35-pin deficit after Game 1 to beat the two-time defending State Champion Pittsfield High School 393-385. Blue Devil senior Michael Johnson was awarded the tournament MVP. At one stretch in the competition, Johnson threw 19 consecutive strikes across the five Baker games.
During the second half of the weekend, all boys with regular season averages over 170 and all girls with a 140 or higher average competed for the Massachusetts State Individual Championship. Once again, Berkshire County showed its strength by placing seven out of eight boys and four out of six girls in the semi-finals. Seeded No. 1 for the boys was Johnson and seeded No. 1 for the girls was the Blue Devils freshman Kayla Field.
In the boys' stepladder finals, Gardner's Adam Cormier defeated Taconic's Peter Dubin 237-180. Cormier then defeated Lee High School's Tyler Warner 202-162. In the championship round, Johnson continued his clutch bowling and defeated Cormier 235-202, making it a clean sweep for the senior.
In the girls' stepladder finals, Monument Mountain High's Abby Rossi defeated St. Peter Marian's Stephanie Jurgiel. After a tying score of 169, Rossi won a two-frame roll-off 49-28. Rossi then rallied in the ninth and 10th frames to beat Field 192-182.
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