Women's Bowling 2/15/2026 8:19:00 PM

Cumberland Women’s Bowling Uses Hot Start in Day One To Reach Knockout Rounds in Indianapolis

INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. -- Phoenix use strong starts in both days to propel into the top eight in the Hoosier Classic.

Cumberland Women's Bowling finishes in eighth out of 64 teams in the Columbia 300 Hoosier Classic with a score of 7636. In the knockout rounds, the Phoenix would fall in the quarterfinals.

The first day of the Hoosier Classic is five standard games for all 64 teams, and after the first game, Cumberland would be sitting in the top five, sitting in fifth place with a score of 1019. Then after game two, the Phoenix would drop to tenth place, as Cumberland would score 950 pins, for a total pin count of 1969.

The Phoenix would struggle in game three, as Cumberland scored 860 pins and fell 11 spots to 21st place with a score of 2829 through three games. After the third game, Cumberland would start to find their groove in the lanes, as the Phoenix would score 1051 pins and jump all the way back into the top ten, and into eighth place with a score of 3880. Finally, after the fifth game on day one, the Phoenix would remain in eighth place with Cumberland knocking down 970 pins and scoring 4850 pins in day one.

Within the conference, Pikeville is sitting in second place with a score of 5155, Tennessee Wesleyan is sitting in ninth with a score of 4840. Union Commonwealth finished day one in 29th place with a score of 4454, the Cumberlands would finish in 31st place with a score of 4451, and Midway would be sitting in 42nd place with a score of 4302.

Day two would be 15 baker games to try and solidify the bracket for the knockout rounds later on. There are only eight teams that make the knockout rounds, so the Phoenix are the cut line for the knockout rounds. The difference between fifth place, Aquinas (4890 pins) and 11th place, William Penn (4818 pins) is 72 pins.

After the first five baker games, Cumberland would drop below the cut line as the Phoenix fell to ninth place with a score of 910 pins (182 pin average) through the first third of day two, for a total pin count of 5760, and sit 11 pins behind the cut line, which was now Aquinas, who is sitting with 5771. Heading into the final five baker games of the qualification round, Cumberland would be able to find the grooves of the lanes, as the Phoenix scored 998 pins (199.6 average) in games 6-10 to reach sixth place with a score of 6758. Cumberland would be 44 pins ahead of ninth place Missouri Baptist.

After all 15 baker games, the Phoenix would score 878 pins and drop to eighth place in the standings, which is just enough to make the knockout rounds with a score of 7636. Cumberland would make the top eight by seven pins as the ninth place team, Lawrence Tech, finished with a score of 7629. In the 15 baker games, the Phoenix scored 2786 pins, for an average score of 185.73 pins per game.

In the first round of the knockout rounds, Cumberland would have a MSC Tournament rematch with Pikeville, who is the top seed in the Hoosier Classic with a score of 7997 pins. In that first round, Pikeville would sweep Cumberland 2-0 and move on to the second round. The finals of the tournament would have second-seed Mount Mercy sweeping Pikeville 3-0 to win the Columbia 300 Hoosier Classic.

Within the conference, Pikeville finished as the top seed with a score of 7994, but finished the tournament as runner-ups. Tennessee Welseyan finished in 10th place with a score of 7586. Cumberlands finished in 25th place with a score of 7160, Union Commonwealth finished in 30th with a score of 7020. Midway finished in 49th place with a score of 6561, Lindsey Wilson finished in 56th place with a score of 6274, and Campbellsville finished in 63rd with a score of 5405.

Looking at the individual effort for the Phoenix, Jennifer Chiarillo scored 990 pins throughout the five games, for an average of 198 pins, including a 244 game in game two. Madison Taylor would also score 990 pins in five games for Cumberland. The final bowler who bowled all five games was Serenity Freeman, who scored 980 pins, for an average of 196 pins per game. Kathleen Schraer would bowl four games, and get an average 176.75 pins per game. Finally, Kaylie Gibson and Gracie Connelly would bowl three games, with Gibson averaging 204 pins in those three games and Connelly averaging 190.33 pins per game.

Cumberland will be getting some well deserved time off, but then it's onto one of the biggest tournaments of the year, with the Phoenix competing in the USBC Sectionals tournament on March 14th-15th.

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