JACKSON, Mich. – The Vincennes University Bowling team had a great start to their 2024-25 season this past Saturday at the annual Dirty Bird Classic hosted by Concordia University in Michigan.

The Trailblazers took second place as a team in the tournament, posting a team score of 2803 in three traditional games and a total of 1899 pins in 10 Baker games.

Vincennes was led by sophomore Dakota Waskom (Louisville, Ky.) who got the season started with a bang, posting the best game score of the tournament with a 247 in his first game.

Waskom continued to climb up the leaderboard with a 201 in his second game before closing the traditional games with a 198, giving him a total of 646 pins and a third place finish overall.

Freshman Colton Martin (Breese, Ill.) had a strong start to his season in his collegiate debut, starting with a 167 and 192 in the first two games before closing out with 239 to climb to a 10th place finish.

Senior Brighton Lucas (Salem, Ill.) was the third VU bowler to finish in the Top 15, posting a game of 246 in between a 166 in game one and 165 in game three for a total of 577.

Sophomore Nick Gregg (Salem, Ill.) was the fourth Trailblazer to bowl all three traditional games, finishing with a 148 in game one, 177 in game two and 122 in game three to finish 66th overall.

Freshmen Carter Martin (Breese, Ill.), Ryan Webber (Evansville, Ind.) and sophomore Dylan Lewis (Louisville, Ky.) combined to pick up the fifth game for the Trailblazers.

Martin took game one with a 139, Webber bowled game two with a score 169 before handing it over to Lewis who closed out with a 227 in game three.

The Trailblazers posted a team score of 2,803 pins in the three traditional games.

VU then turned over to the 10 baker games, split into two flights of five, closing out the first flight strong with a 246 and 245 in games four and five.

Vincennes closed out the weekend strong in the second flight of baker games, posting a team total of 1,899 pins in the 10 games, giving them a tournament total of 4,702 pins, good for second place as a team.

The Blazers will look to keep this hot start to their season going in their next tournament when VU heads to Wauwatosa, Wis. Saturday, Oct. 5 and Sunday, Oct. 6 for the 2024 Midwest Collegiate Championships.

Aces finish in 12^th place

 ONEONTA, Ala. – Day three of the Graeme McDowell Invitational saw Danill Romashkin and Omar Khalid finish at one over par as the University of Evansville men’s golf team came home in 12^th place at Limestone Springs.

Romashkin’s score of 73 gave him a 3-round total of 219.  He tied for 44^th in the final standings.  His low round of the weekend was a 71 on Monday.  Completing the event one behind him was Andres Rodriguez.  He carded a 2-over 74 on Tuesday and wrapped up the tournament with a 220.  He tied for 47^th with his low score being a 71 in round two.

Omar Khalid matched Romashkin’s final-round tally of 73.  Shooting a 9-over 225, he tied for 62^nd.  Next up was Julian Kiessling.  The freshman improved in all three rounds, culminating in a 237 for his three rounds.  Kiessling posted a 75 on Tuesday for his low round of the tournament.  Eli Rohleder shot an 82 in the final round, resulting in a final score of 240.

UL Monroe and North Alabama were co-champions of the event.  Both finished at 30-under for the weekend.  Lipscomb took third, two strokes behind.

Xing Luo of UNA was the medalist.  Finishing the last round with a 6-under 66, Luo tallied a 200 in his three rounds, defeating a second-place tie by two strokes.

Next week, the Purple Aces return to the course at the Bubba Barnett Intercollegiate in Jonesboro, Ark.

 Rodriguez and Romashkin post identical scores

 ONEONTA, Ala. – After shooting identical scores in the first round of the Graeme McDowell Invitational, the duo of Andres Rodriguez and Daniil Romashkin did so once again in Monday’s second round to pace the University of Evansville men’s golf team.

Rodriguez and Romashkin both recorded scores of 75 to open the event on Sunday and came back in the second 18 holes to post rounds of 71, one under par.  Both are tied for the 40^th position at Limestone Springs.

Omar Khalid made a nice improvement in the second 18 holes.  The freshman began the weekend with a 78 before lowering his score by five shots to a 2-over 74.  He is tied for 66^th on the individual leaderboard.

Eli Rohleder and Julian Kiessling completed the scoring for the Purple Aces.  Rohleder remains fourth on the team with a 158.  Both of his rounds finished at 7-over.  Kiessling made the largest jump for UE.  After carding a score of 85 on Sunday, the freshman completed Monday’s round with a 5-over 77.

Evansville remains in 12^th place in the team standings while the top of the standings see the top three teams separated by just one stroke.  North Alabama heads into Tuesday’s final round at 21-under with Lipscomb and UL Monroe tied for second, just one off the pace.

Yixiang Wang from Memphis and Louis Anceaux of ULM are tied atop the individual standings.  Both have scores of 131, 11 under par.  Xing Luo of UNA is one stroke behind in third place.