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Wright State Raiders in the Top 10!

Check out the rankings on www.collegebowling.com. The week-2 power rankings have the women 2nd in the country and the men in 6th. What an awesome start to the season!

Last update on the Raiders provided information about their first tournament, but failed to mention a few other outstanding individual performances.

Aaron Richter averaged 213 for his 4 games and Torrey Gerdes averaged 192 for his 4. They also had Clinton Boisel in 30th, Ryan Dobie in 39th, Joey Bobinger in 41st and Dan Sakaitas in 48th. On the women’s side, they also had Erin Dever in 13th, Erica Morgan in 14th and Justina Tibbs in 23rd. Jessica Rodman averaged an outstanding 181 for her 4 games and Sara Turpin and Kindra Snyder were at 176 and 173 for their 4 games.

Last weekend they competed in the Midwest Collegiate Tier 1 event for the first time. The 7 hour trip to Wisconsin proved worthwhile as the women finished 7th out of 27 schools and earned $370 and their men finished 11th out of 45 schools and earned $400. Heidi Sanders had an outstanding tournament and finished 3rd overall to make the All Tournament team with a 204 average for her 9 games. Other top WSU women were Kathryn Cox in 24th and Kristen Keenan in 35th. Shayna Kanemoto averaged 191 for her 4 games and Erica Morgan averaged 198 for her two games.

On the men’s side, Jay Foote was tops with his 55th place finish followed by Freshman Ryan Dobie in 99th. Ryan averaged 200 for his 8 games. Dean Reynolds averaged 195 for his 6 games, Ricky Brown averaged 195 for his 5 games, Curtiss Rasnic was at 194 for his 5 games and Justin Marcinko was at 202 for his 3 games.