College Bowling Championships

My wife and I headed to ITC College Bowling champioships in Rockford IL. last weekend to see my son Kyle and to watch his team try for a national title. We got there about half way though the qualifing and they were leading. How it works. Teams bowl 32 games of baker bowling, which is when each of five players bowl two fames of each game. Bowler 1 bowls 1st and 6th frames and so on. They finished as the high qualifier. The next day they are put into a double elimination bracket and bowl best 4 of 7 games to advance. They started by bowling the 16 seeded Arizona State team. It was a tough match and went down to game seven for Witchita to win. Next they bowled Nebraska and won in four straight games. Now they only needed one more win to get them to the semi-finals the next day, but lost to Webber International 4-2, This moved them to the loser bracket where they had to play ASU again to move to semi-finals. They beat ASU 4-2 in a close match. They now moved to championship Saturday where they were to meet Webber Int. again, but this time had to beat them twice to get to finals. They won 4-2 and then 4-1 to advance to finals against Saginaw Valley State. It would be a battle of no. 1 vs no 2 for the championship. The finals are on TV in June on CBS College sports, so they had to set up a TV studio for the finals. I sat just past the foul with all the other WSU parents. It was an exciting final with Saginaw winning the first game when the anchor left a split in the tenthy frame. The finals are the best 2 of 3 because of TV. Witchta then came back and won game 2 and 3 to win their 9th championship. It was very exciting. A little later we watched the womens team dominate the finals to amke it a sweep for the Shockers. Here is a link to see results http://www.bowl.com/articleView.aspx?i=15485&f=1. Now maybe I can go back to playing some poker!