CONTACT: Adam Sopris, a.sopris@hvcc.edu, 518-629-7898 or 518-416-2137
FOR RELEASE: Immediate, Saturday, January 26, 2019
Hudson Valley's bowling team just missed out on winning the Westchester Classic as they finished 20 pins behind the overall leader, Corning, on Sunday afternoon in Carmel, NY.
As a team, the Vikings finished in second place out of a total of nine participating teams. Hudson Valley recorded a final team score of 6650.
Individually,Jordan Nichols (Saratoga Springs/Saratoga Springs) placed fourth overall in the singles events and the duo of Dominick Ippolito (Waterford/Waterford-Halfmoon) and Brandon Charette (Cohoes/Cohoes) placed fifth in the double portion of the tournament. Nichols and doubles partner Donald Baker (Ravena/Ravena-Coeymans-Selkirk) finished sixth.
Nichols also earned a top-10 finish in the all-events scoring of the tournament and Michael Taber (New Baltimore/Coxsackie-Athens) and David Shaw (Amsterdam/Amsterdam) finished 10thand 12th, respectively, in the final all-events standings.
The bowling program hits the road for a Mountain Valley Conference meet hosted by Fulton-Montgomery on Wednesday, January 30.