The Youngstown State bowling workforce will start the second half of the season this weekend after they journey to Deptford, NJ for the Northeast Basic. Sacred Coronary heart serves as match host at Bowlero Deptford, which begins Friday.
All Penguins video games shall be streamed stay on the YSUsports YouTube channel, with outcomes posted on the workforce’s Twitter and Fb accounts as they turn out to be accessible.
Youngstown State begins the spring portion of its schedule after a profitable fall semester with three top-three finishes in 4 tournaments. The Penguins went 41-13 in fall meets, and so they completed in back-to-back second-place finishes on the MOTIV Penguin Basic and “Dezy Sturdy” Basic. YSU final completed third within the Jap Shore Hawk Basic on Nov. 20.
The Penguins’ accomplishments within the fall semester gave voters sufficient purpose to maneuver them up two spots within the Nationwide Tenpin Coaches Affiliation Prime 25 Ballot. YSU was ranked seventh within the December ballot after beginning ninth within the preseason ballot. The seventh-place end is tied for the very best season end at school historical past. The Penguins ranked third within the NTCA Energy Index Rankings, based mostly on every workforce’s report and energy of schedule much like the NCAA’s RPI, after the autumn.
The Northeast Basic would be the first of 5 tournaments within the spring main as much as the Southland Bowling League Championship. YSU may even take part in tournaments hosted by Prairie View A&M, Arkansas State, Nebraska and Vanderbilt earlier than the March 24-26 convention occasion.
Event format
The Northeast Basic will comply with the usual 13-match rotation with 10 qualifiers and three bracket matches this weekend at Bowlero Deptford. There shall be 5 Baker matches beginning at 10:30 a.m. on Friday, and general finfall will decide the winners of every head-to-head match. 5 conventional matches will decide the winners, beginning at 9:25 a.m. Saturday. Complete factors from the match’s first 10 video games will decide the seeding for bracket play, which begins at 8:25 a.m. Sunday.
Area exploration
Southland Groups (6): Arkansas State, Sam Houston, Stephen F. Austin, Tulane, Vanderbilt, Youngstown State
Ranked Groups (from NTCA Dec. 22 ballot): #1 McKendree, #2 North Carolina A&T, #3 Vanderbilt, #4 Nebraska, #5 SFA, #6 Arkansas State, #7 Youngstown State, #8 Sam Houston, #10 Maryland Jap Shore, #11 Maryville, #12 Duquesne , #13 Delaware State, #14 Fairleigh Dickinson, #15 Mount St. Mary’s, #17 Tulane, #18 Mercyhurst, #19 Medaille, #20 Central Missouri, #21 Sacred Coronary heart, #23 UW-Whitewater, #24 Morgan State, #25 Merrimack
Additionally Voted Groups (3): LIU, Monmouth, Wilmington
Unranked groups (9): Adelphi, Bryant, Chestnut Hill, Kutztown, Mount Aloysius, NJCU, St. Francis Brooklyn, Wagner
Youngstown State is certainly one of 33 groups to compete in Bowlero Deptford this weekend, in what’s claimed to be the second-largest match area for NCAA bowling groups since 2004. The sphere options 22 groups ranked within the prime 25 in December’s Nationwide Tenpin Coaches Affiliation ballot, together with every of the highest eight groups and 15 of the highest 16 groups. The Penguins are ranked seventh, and they’re additionally certainly one of six groups. Heading to The Backyard State from the Southland Bowling League.
Groups are divided into two swimming pools of 17, and Youngstown State is within the first pool, which options lots of the prime groups from the Central Area. The Penguins will compete towards 10 groups from the second pool within the qualifiers.
Schedule of YSU
Friday – 5 Baker matches begin at 10:30am
- Kutztown – Lanes 35-36
- LIU – Lanes 27-28
- #25 Merrimack – Lanes 21-22
- Wagner – Lanes 15-16
- #15 Mount St. Mary’s – Lanes 7-8
Saturday – 5 conventional matches beginning at 9:25
- Monmouth – Lanes 41-42
- #13 Delaware State – Lanes 37-38
- #14 Fairleigh Dickinson – Lanes 25-26
- Bryant – Lanes 19-20
- #10 Maryland Jap Shore – Lanes 9-10
Sunday – Three best-of-seven Baker matches beginning at 8:25
Beforehand on the Northeast Basic
Youngstown State made its 2022 Northeast Basic debut and had a high-scoring weekend en path to a third-place end out of 18 groups. The Penguins went 9-4 in head-to-head matches and topped No. 1 Sam Houston twice in Sunday’s bracket play. YSU additionally had wins over No. 4 North Carolina A&T and No. 5 Vanderbilt within the match.
The Guins had the very best scoring match at school historical past finally season’s Northeast Basic, averaging 210.39 factors per recreation. Within the Baker format, YSU had the second-best Baker recreation at school historical past with 1,164 factors towards Maryland Jap Shore in 2022 and anchor Emma Wren Baker averaged 22.70 pins per body within the recreation, the second-highest Baker body common for a match at school historical past. In conventional play, Wrenn shot 1,076 units over 5 video games to rank sixteenth and Megan Grams He shot 1,065 to complete twenty third.
A repeat of Sahin Basic
Youngstown State posted a 10-3 head-to-head report and positioned third out of 18 groups on the 2022 Jap Shore Hawk Basic, Nov. 18-20, to conclude the autumn semester schedule. The Penguins have gained seven of their final eight video games and are undefeated in bracket play towards Sam Houston, Delaware State and Fairleigh Dickinson. YSU completed fifth after two days of low finishes in qualifying and moved up two spots for the ultimate standings to report its third top-three end of the autumn.
Junior Madison Marks 1,014 was YSU’s greatest particular person end in conventional play at ninth with a five-game set. sophomore Ellie Drescher 18th (975) and ranked second Jade Cote It was fortieth (895).
The following one
Youngstown State will fly south subsequent weekend for the celebrated PVAMU Invitational at The ITRC in Arlington, Texas. The Penguins shall be certainly one of 12 groups in an unique area that features the highest 9 groups and 11 of the highest 15 groups within the NTCA ballot in December. The competition will start at 12:15 PM ET on January twenty seventh.
