The Oswego High School girls bowling team started its season by capturing first place at the Plainfield Central Wildcat Invite Friday, Nov. 25.
The Panthers’ morning total of 2,650 put the team in third place entering the lunch break and trailing only Minooka and Joliet West in the field of 17 teams. Oswego improved in the afternoon by rolling its top three team scores of the day. Entering the final game of the tournament, the Panthers found themselves just 43 pins out of first place. In the final game, the team put together its best score of the day, 981, to finish in first place by 26 pins.
Leading the Oswego varsity squad were seniors Lani Breedlove and Katelyn Watson, as well as junior Amber Lymenstull. All three Panther bowlers averaged better than 200 on the day and each earned a medal.
Breedlove’s 1,231 series was good for second place overall and was a result of excellent control of the pocket and spare shooting throughout the entire tournament.
Watson finished in third place in the tournament with a 1,218 series that came on an outstanding afternoon series of 691 with games of 236, 237, and 218.
Lymenstull finished in fourth place overall and was consistent throughout the day with a morning series of 593, and a 616 afternoon series. Contributing to Oswego’s first place finish were juniors Madi Watson, 825 in five games, and Hailey Jourdan, 171 in one game, sophomore Rhiannon Reynolds, 423 in three games, and freshman Sunny Newell, (468 in three games
–Oswego High School