Collegiate Ticker - Oct. 15, 2025
October 15, 2025
The 2025-2026 United States Bowling Congress Collegiate season ended its fourth weekend of competition after nine events were contested across the country, including the Columbia 300 Western Shootout in Indianapolis.
Twenty-nine men’s varsity teams and 28 women’s varsity teams competed in Indianapolis for six individual games and 16 Baker games, with total pinfall determining who won the event. By the end of Sunday, it was the Marian-Indiana men and Lindenwood women on top of their respective divisions.
The Marian-Indiana men started off hot with a 1,203 team game before ending Day 1 in third place with 6,394, behind Trine (6,443) and McKendree (6,421). In the Baker portion of the event, the Knights stayed consistent and didn’t shoot a game below 187 to take the lead and the win with a grand total of 9,827, over 170 pins better than McKendree.
Lindenwood teammates Emmanuel McPherson and Mike Anderson went one-two in the individual standings, with McPherson shooting a six-game total of 1,425 and Anderson closing out with a 277 for 1,395. Trine’s Blake Attig was third with 1,387 and Marian-Indiana’s Jacob Neubauer was right behind in fourth with 1,386. McKendree’s Xavier Newell closed out the top five with 1,368.
The women’s side came down to the final game as Lindenwood and Rochester were battling it out for the win. Despite Rochester having the second-highest Baker set in the field (3,064), it wasn’t enough as they fell short to Lindenwood by a single pin, 8,764-8,763.
Tennessee Wesleyan’s Bricey Caudill led all women with a six-game total of 1,331 and Rochester’s Sara Ritchie was not far behind in second with 1,329. University of the Cumberlands’ Kailee Blain (1,274), Culver-Stockton’s Rachel Moore (1,273) and Lindenwood’s Hailey Bozych (1,266) occupied the rest of the top five.
In other collegiate action:
- At the Big Ole Open in Alexandria, Minnesota, the Coe men and Iowa Central women won their respective match-play brackets.
- At the Bud Whitman Memorial in Deptford, New Jersey, the Sacred Heart women went 5-0 in matches to win.
- At the Comet Classic in Lansing, Michigan, the Olivet men and women came out on top for the sweep.
- The first two Eastern Intercollegiate Bowling Tournaments (EIBT) events took place in Lodi and New Brunswick, New Jersey. Both events were won by the New Jersey Institute of Technology men.
- At the Grapevine Classic in Erie, Pennsylvania, the Saint Vincent women went a perfect 10-0 in matches to take the win.
- At the Warhawk Classic in Rockford, Illinois, the Newman women defeated McKendree in seven games to claim the win.
- At the first Great Lakes Bowling Conference event in Minneapolis, the Rock Valley men and Wisconsin-Madison women earned conference wins.
Next weekend features nine events, including the Mid States Championships, the second Tier I of the season.
For the full schedule of collegiate events, results and more, visit BOWL.com/Collegiate and CollegeBowling.Bowl.com.
Twenty-nine men’s varsity teams and 28 women’s varsity teams competed in Indianapolis for six individual games and 16 Baker games, with total pinfall determining who won the event. By the end of Sunday, it was the Marian-Indiana men and Lindenwood women on top of their respective divisions.
The Marian-Indiana men started off hot with a 1,203 team game before ending Day 1 in third place with 6,394, behind Trine (6,443) and McKendree (6,421). In the Baker portion of the event, the Knights stayed consistent and didn’t shoot a game below 187 to take the lead and the win with a grand total of 9,827, over 170 pins better than McKendree.
Lindenwood teammates Emmanuel McPherson and Mike Anderson went one-two in the individual standings, with McPherson shooting a six-game total of 1,425 and Anderson closing out with a 277 for 1,395. Trine’s Blake Attig was third with 1,387 and Marian-Indiana’s Jacob Neubauer was right behind in fourth with 1,386. McKendree’s Xavier Newell closed out the top five with 1,368.
The women’s side came down to the final game as Lindenwood and Rochester were battling it out for the win. Despite Rochester having the second-highest Baker set in the field (3,064), it wasn’t enough as they fell short to Lindenwood by a single pin, 8,764-8,763.
Tennessee Wesleyan’s Bricey Caudill led all women with a six-game total of 1,331 and Rochester’s Sara Ritchie was not far behind in second with 1,329. University of the Cumberlands’ Kailee Blain (1,274), Culver-Stockton’s Rachel Moore (1,273) and Lindenwood’s Hailey Bozych (1,266) occupied the rest of the top five.
In other collegiate action:
- At the Big Ole Open in Alexandria, Minnesota, the Coe men and Iowa Central women won their respective match-play brackets.
- At the Bud Whitman Memorial in Deptford, New Jersey, the Sacred Heart women went 5-0 in matches to win.
- At the Comet Classic in Lansing, Michigan, the Olivet men and women came out on top for the sweep.
- The first two Eastern Intercollegiate Bowling Tournaments (EIBT) events took place in Lodi and New Brunswick, New Jersey. Both events were won by the New Jersey Institute of Technology men.
- At the Grapevine Classic in Erie, Pennsylvania, the Saint Vincent women went a perfect 10-0 in matches to take the win.
- At the Warhawk Classic in Rockford, Illinois, the Newman women defeated McKendree in seven games to claim the win.
- At the first Great Lakes Bowling Conference event in Minneapolis, the Rock Valley men and Wisconsin-Madison women earned conference wins.
Next weekend features nine events, including the Mid States Championships, the second Tier I of the season.
For the full schedule of collegiate events, results and more, visit BOWL.com/Collegiate and CollegeBowling.Bowl.com.