No. 19 Tulane Bowling Goes 4-0 to Open TRACK Kat Klash
The 19th-ranked Tulane University bowling team started the TRACK Kat Klash, hosted by Sam Houston, off strong with a 4-0 record on the first day of competition. The Green Wave toppled a pair of top-10 foes and totaled 4,555 pins to finish day one in fifth place at Emerald Lanes.
The Wave bowled five times Friday in the Baker match portion of qualifying. Tulane opened with four matches and finished the day with a bye in the fifth slot on the daily schedule, still bowling as the pins were counted toward the total, but the match was not accounted for in win-loss record. The Wave eclipsed 850 in every match but one today with three outings over 900, averaging 182.2 pins per game. Tulane was the only program in the 13-team field to go undefeated Friday.
The day opened with a match-up against Southern, an 828-757 victory for the Wave. Individual game scores were 185-177, 152-169, 139-135, 177-148, 175-128.
Topping Top-10 LA Tech
Next up was a test against No. 9 Louisiana Tech that Tulane passed, 991-915. The Wave won each of the five individual games, with the scores being 185-178, 213-212, 233-194, 182-162, 178-167.
Another Top-10 Win against #7 North Carolina
Another ranked foe followed with a contest against No. 7 North Carolina A&T, but again Tulane rose to the occasion with a 968-856 triumph over the Aggies. The Wave once more claimed all five individual games by scores of 180-129, 190-180, 223-184, 182-181, 193-182.
Tulane’s final head-to-head match of the day came against Jackson State, which resulted in an 861-853 win for the Wave. The games saw scores of 157-149, 178-194, 176-165, 157-185, 193-160.
For the bye, Tulane bowled a strong 907 to finish with its total score of 4,555. The Green Wave won 17 of the 20 individual head-to-head games bowled today.
Qualifying action continues Saturday with five team games. The Wave are set to bowl against Alabama State, No. 25 Oklahoma Christian, Texas Southern, Prairie View A&M, and No. 5 Wichita State.
Courtesy Tulane Athletics
Doug has covered a gamut of sporting events in his fifty-plus years in the field. He started doing sideline reporting for Louisiana Tech football games for the student radio station. Doug was Sports Director for KNOE-AM/FM in Monroe in the mid-80s, winning numerous awards from the Louisiana Sports Writers Association for Best Sportscast and Best Play-by-Play. High school play-by-play for teams in Monroe, Natchitoches, New Orleans, and Thibodaux, LA dot his resume. He did college play-by-play for Northwestern State University in Natchitoches for nine years. Then, moving to the Crescent City, Doug did television PBP of Tulane games and even filled in for legendary Tulane broadcaster, Ken Berthelot in the only game Kenny ever missed while doing the Green Wave games. His father was an alumnus of Tulane in the 1940s, so Doug has attended Tulane football games in old Tulane Stadium, the Superdome, and Yulman. He was one of the 86,000 plus on December 1, 1973, sitting in the North End Zone to seeTulane shutout the LSU Tigers, 14-0. He was there when the Posse ruled Fogelman and in Turchin when the Wave made it to the World Series. He currently is the public address voice of the Tulane baseball team.