Rolling a successful season Williston club is eyeing solid year

The Williston High School bowling club is in its third year of existence, and is heading in the right direction.

The main thing is to get the kids to enjoy this as a team sport,” said Williston bowling coach Ture Peterson. “Because it’s a team sport.”

The Williston club is made up of 13 bowlers, which is down from 19 bowlers a year ago.

But the decrease in numbers isn’t a concern for Peterson.

“As long as we can fill varsity and JV with six or seven bowlers, I’d be pretty happy.” Five bowlers participate at the varsity level, which uses a baker team format. Each match is a best-out-of-five, with each participant bowling every sixth frame.

On the season, Williston is 2-1. Williston opened its season two weeks ago in Dickinson.

Williston defeated Minot, but lost to Dickinson. Mandan was scheduled to participate, but does not have bowlers to field a team.

As a result of Mandan not participating, Williston bowled against the low team score from the Minot/Dickinson match, which it beat to record its second win.

“Dickinson handed it to us,” Peterson said. “They bowled over 200 in every game against us, which is good in this format.”

During one stretch, Peterson said Dickinson rolled seven strikes in a row.”

Bowling is a school-sponsored activity, which allows participants to earn letters.

“We get no funding from them (Williston High School), but we get to use the name,” Peterson said.

As a result, bowling relies on fundraising more so than any other of the school-sponsored activities.

Friday Night Burgers at the Moose Lodge has proven to be a big source of revenue for the Williston bowlers.

“Whatever we bring in, they pretty much donate,” Peterson said.

The Williston bowlers will return to action Saturday at Minot.

Dickinson is also scheduled to participate.

The Williston club will host a meet on Nov. 6 at Million Dollar Lanes.

The state meet will be Nov. 20 in Moorhead, Minn.