No. 19 Tulane Bowling in Top 10 After Day One of Bulldog Classic
The 19th-ranked Tulane University bowling team went 2-3 during a challenging first day of the Bulldog Classic, hosted by No. 9 Louisiana Tech at City View Lanes. The Wave is ninth in the 16-team field with a pin total of 4,738 at an average of 189.5 per game.
Tulane bowled five sets of five Baker matches today with four coming against ranked foes. The first was against No. 3 Vanderbilt, a 1,148-934 win for the Commodores. Game scores were 211-234, 188-194, 171-233, 171-221, 193-266.
Up next was the lone unranked squad on Tulane’s Friday slate, Alabama State. The Wave secured a 943-935 triumph with scores of 138-214, 192-189, 201-130, 221-223, 191-179.
No. 1 Jacksonville State followed with the Gamecocks claiming a 1,112-959 win. Individual game scores were 199-228, 184-244, 187-209, 189-196, 200-235.
The Wave looked for a bounce back against No. 6 Arkansas State and did just that with a top-10 victory, 980-933. Game scores were 159-175, 174-198, 211-175, 198-166, 238-219. The 238 in the final game was Tulane’s highest score of the day.
Rounding out the opening day of competition was a tilt against No. 24 Oklahoma Christian, who won by a narrow margin of 924-922. Game scores were 210-161, 160-202, 180-185, 192-171, 180-205.
The Wave will bowl five traditional matches Saturday, beginning with two against Texas Southern. The day concludes with three crossplay matches against Southern, Prairie View A&M, and No. 11 Sacred Heart.
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.