The Ohio High School Athletic Association’s Division I boys bowling state champion is a Cincinnati team for the first time and it came at the expense of another.
The St. Xavier Bombers beat Greater Catholic League-South rival Elder 3-1 in the Division I, beating the Panthers 189-202, 212-200, 225-207, 203-202 in the final round.
St. Xavier was the No. 4 seed in the bracket after the qualifying rounds and Elder was No. 2. St. Xavier beat Avon Lake and Gahanna Lincoln to reach the finals. Elder beat St. Ignatius and Amherst Steele.
Bomber junior Jack Kaiser was the individual runner-up, rolling a 715 for the day. He finished five pins behind champion Kael Clous. Fellow Bomber Luke Stigall also earned All-Ohio honors, rolling a 685 and taking sixth.
Elder senior Jayden Brown also had a 685, but took fifth with a tie break to be a first-teamer in Ohio.
No Cincinnati team had won the boys tournament in either division before the Bombers broke through on March 6. La Salle’s Evan Kling won an individual championship in the inaugural tournament of 2007 and Hamilton’s girls team won in 2022.
This article originally appeared on Cincinnati Enquirer: St. Xavier beats Elder in OHSAA DI state bowling team championship
Reporting by Alex Harrison, Cincinnati Enquirer / Cincinnati Enquirer
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