UW-Whitewater was saving its best for last at the Kutztown Classic Friday-Sunday in Kutztown, Pennsylvania.  The Warhawks rolled their three highest Baker games of the season, including a school record 261 to finish thirteenth out of twenty-eight teams in the tournament.   Whitewater's Ashley Keclik (Hoffman Estates, IL/Fremd) placed sixteenth in the field of 180 competitors.

Baker results 1/31

seeding and championship match results

final individual standings

final team standings

After going 5-6 in the previous two days of the tournament, UW-W finished with four straight wins Sunday.  UW-W defeated Norfolk State 757-691, Saint Francis 769-704, Southern University 4-1, and Saint Peter's 4-3.  

UW-W rolled a 261 in the fifth game of the match versus Saint Peter's, breaking the previous mark of 254 set twice before, once in the spring of 2007 and once last March.  Whitewater's Sunday Baker games also included a 236 against Saint Francis, second best this season, and a 228 in the Southern match, the third highest Baker game this season.  In all, the Warhawks had five of their top ten Baker games of the season in Sunday's matches.

The University of Maryland-Eastern Shore won the tourney, defeated New Jersey City College in the Baker match for the title.  Fairleigh Dickinson finished third and host Kutztown fourth.

Kecklik, a junior from Hoffman Estates, IL/Fremd, totaled 1217 pins for sixteenth.  Teammate Cassie Molbeck (Germantown/Germantown) placed thirty-fifth with 1118 pins, and Warhawk Katelyn Miles (Rockford, IL/Jefferson) was forty-ninth at 1083.  Natalie Cortese of Valparaiso University won the tourney with a total of 1324 pins.  

UW-W will compete in the McKendree Classic in Fairview Heights, Illinois Saturday-Sunday, February 6-7.  The Warhawks will host their only home competition of the second semester, the Warhawk Classic, February 12-13.

For additional information:  Amber Griffin (Kenosha/Tremper), UW-W coach