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Holbrook is no fluke
Boys All-Star Team
FIRST TEAM
Keegen Holbrook
By the numbers: 206 avg., 763 high series, 300 high game
Achievements: Seven Quad County tourney titles, including singles with that 763 series and 300 game; 33rd in state all-events scratch
Brad Fisher
By the numbers: 200 avg., 763 high series, 300 high game
Achievements: 1st CBJA team scratch, singles hdcp, doubles scratch and all-events hdcp; 3rd P-T Boys Tournament; 3rd Pepsi state; 4th state doubles hdcp
Tyler Hansen
By the numbers: 211 avg., 755 high series, 284 high game
Achievements: 6th state doubles hdcp; 10th state all-events hdcp; 12th state all-events scratch; 13th state singles; 27th P-T Boys Tournament
Joe Miller
By the numbers: 207 avg. (205 composite in two leagues), 724 high series, 300 high game
Achievements: 1st CBJA team scratch; 18th Pepsi state; 11th in P-T Boys Tournament
Nate Maciejewski
By the numbers: 194 avg., 718 high series, 268 high game
Achievements: 1st CBJA team scratch and doubles scratch; 2nd CBJA singles hdcp; 17th Pepsi state; 18th state singles hdcp
SECOND TEAM
Matt Staninger
By the numbers: 222 comp. avg. (39 games), 800 series, 300 high game
Achievements: 5th state masters; 11th state singles hdcp; 6th state all-events scratch; 16th state all-events hdcp; 1st P-T Boys Tournament
Derrick Dziezak
By the numbers: 212 avg., 774 high series, 279 high game
Achievements: 2nd CBJA all-events hdcp; 4th CBJA doubles hdcp; 5th Pepsi state; 32nd state all-events scratch
Ryan McCoy
By the numbers: 224 comp. avg (27 games), 731 high series, 279 high game
Achievements: 1st CBJA team scratch and all-events scratch; 1st state doubles hdcp; 21st P-T Boys Tournament
Johnny Gorches
By the numbers: 193 avg., 763 high series, 289 high game
Achievements: 4th state singles hdcp; 2nd state singles scratch; 7th state all-events scratch; 24th state all-events hdcp; 6th P-T Boys Tournament
Colin Young
By the numbers: 196 avg., 726 high series, 279 high game
Achievements: 1st CBJA team hdcp; 2nd CBJA doubles hdcp; 5th CBJA all-events; 15th state doubles hdcp
Honorable mention
Matt Laviolette, Jeremy Rusnack, Jacob Glass, Joey Ledesma, Phil Ledesma, Andy Schmied, Andrew Striker, Nick Laviolette, Adam Cobban, Nate Huizenga, Kevin McCune, Jacob Gordon, Bobby Kammer, Jake McCoy, Jake Sturgill, Josh Dresbaugh, Jordan Locher, Carl Jones, Nick Puchek, Freddy Benich, Ryan Svetanoff, Zak Johnston, Micah Farley, Brandon Sparks, Ryan Randall, Richard Obacz, Shawn Sprouse, Josh Bettenhausen, Adam Batliner, Jake Yankauskas, Jacob Hollingshead, Tyler McKinney, DJ Carpenter, Ari Wilson, Justin Melvin, Randy Bartkiewicz
EDITOR’S NOTE: For more on the 2011 P-T boys bowler of the year and all-star teams, visit Steve T. Gorches’ blog at blogs.post-trib.com/gorches.
At first he was modest in calling it “a fluke.” But then, Keegen Holbrook recalled what he told his dad, Bob, before last season’s Quad County Association youth tournament.
“I told him I had a good shot at getting my first (300),” Keegen said.
And that’s exactly what the Rensselaer graduate did in what he said was his last year of youth bowling before heading to adult leagues in the fall, though he wished his first perfect game wouldn’t have been so quick.
“It came too early — in the first game,” he said. “I really wanted 800, but I only had 180-something in the second game.”
The 300 came in the first game of doubles. He also had the first nine strikes in the third game for a shot at perfect game No. 2 before finishing with a 277 and 763 series to help take both scratch and handicap doubles titles with his partner Paige Kraushaar.
Later he added a 279 game and 664 series in singles to take that scratch title.
In all, Holbrook had seven Quad County titles — he finished second in handicap singles — and added a 206 league average at Hebron Lanes to earn Post-Tribune Boys Bowler of the Year honors.
“The Quad County tourney has treated me well,” he said, recalling that he rolled his first 700 (706) in the event a couple years ago.
Not getting the 800 is actually part of a competition between Keegen and his dad, neither of whom have earned an 800 ring from the USBC yet.
“I’ve always looked up to him,” Keegen said. “He has a handful of 300s, but he’s still trying for that 800 too. We’re kind of racing to see who gets it first.”
Their passion for the sport should be no surprise since the Holbrooks are a bowling family. Keegen’s brother Kyler also bowled for Rensselaer and their grandfather William had owned the small bowling alley in Rensselaer before it was bought by George Barton and the name changed to Strike Zone.
Up next for Keegen is attending Purdue University for academics while keeping his options open for college bowling down the road. He’ll also be bowling in an adult league with his dad in which both will be looking for that elusive 800 series.
Joining Holbrook on the P-T all-star first team are Brad Fisher, who won three Calumet Junior Bowling Association titles, had a 300 game and finished third in the P-T Tournament; Tyler Hansen, who finished top 12 in three events in the state tourney; Nate Maciejewski, who won two CBJA titles and placed fifth in state all-events; and Joe Miller, who won a CBJA title and rolled his first sanctioned 300.
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