The University of St. Francis men’s bowling team rounded out its successful 2018-19 campaign with a 1-2 record in bracket play at the United States Bowling Congress Intercollegiate Team Championships this week.
Prior to the team event getting underway, Robert Kicmal (La Grange, Ill./Lyons) took home a pair of honors from the National Collegiate Bowling Coaches Association. He earned the NCBCA Rookie of the Year award and honorable mention All-America status.
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St. Francis sat in 10th place after the first 12 games of qualifying but used a strong second block to claim the No. 7 seed heading into bracket play.
Earlier in the week, USF junior Mike Pruchnik (Lockport, Ill./Lockport) represented the Saints in the Intercollegiate Singles Championships.
He finished 17th out of 24 bowlers in qualifying and fell in the first round of single-elimination bracket play to Logan Williams of Chicagoland rival Robert Morris University Illinois.
The Saints posted top-10 performances in nine of its final 10 events, including a program-best third-place showing at the NAIA Invitational, and qualified for the Intercollegiate Team Championships for the second consecutive year.