Bowling starts month strong

Lane Lewison, Sports Editor

February 12, 2025

On a roll. Sophomore J.P. Medaris bowls in the home meet at Little Apple Lanes on Feb. 3.

Manhattan High Bowling was a top finisher in several tournaments so far this season.

Both boys and girls took second at Little Apple Lanes on Monday against Junction City and Sacred Heart. Varsity boys scored 2,442 behind Junction City’s score of 2,520. The girls scored 2,080 as a team to follow Junction City’s 2,353.

“I think as a team we did very well,” senior Jayden Moreno said.

The top individual on the boys’ side was sophomore Kael Stock with 631 for third place. Nathan DeArmond was in fifth place with a score of 595. Freshman Cortlynn Millington won the girls’ side with an individual score of 715, the only MHS girl in the top five.

In their first home meet on Feb. 3, the girls took first and the boys took second.

“It’s nice to be at home and not have to travel as much,” senior Ryan Heitmann said.

Sandwiched in between the home meets, the Indians had a quad on Feb. 6 against Junction City, Solomon and Washington County.

“I think the fair part is the team bonding for sure, and not letting each other down,” Moreno said. “No matter what happens.”

About the Contributors

Lane Lewison, Sports Editor

By Annie Mak Sophomore Lane Lewison is already working toward fulfilling his dream of someday attending Kansas State University and becoming a sports broadcaster. Lewison is in his second year with MHS Student Media, where he has been a videographer and sports announcer, as well as covering sports in print publications. This year he is Sports Editor for the newspaper and yearbook. “I did cross country in my freshman year, but other than that I just do a lot of journalism,” Lewison said. For Lewison, doing both sports and journalism makes sense because he has a passion for both. “So I love to watch sports for one thing,” he said. “How that relates to journalism is that I am the announcer for sports.” While Lewison has interests in other things, including types of journalism, he feels most connected to sports journalism. “I just think they’re so entertaining and how they bring people together,” Lewison said. “I suck at playing them but I can do a report on them, basically.”

Ava Gary-Hernandez, Staff Writer

Sophomore Ava Gary-Hernandez has been wrestling for three years. She finds wrestling comforting and considers it her “comfort sport.” Hernandez chose wrestling because she originally played basketball, but wanted to try out wrestling, and found that she enjoys wrestling more than basketball. Most of the time Hernandez wrestles here at MHS but ever so often, she has to travel outside of the city to wrestle. Typically, when people first meet her, they always assume she doesn’t do any sport, let alone wrestling. Hernandez’s “spark” to wrestling was two years ago when she won against the guys. “It just made me happy,” Hernandez said. Wrestling has become her favorite sport over the years. Her most interesting wrestling story was when she broke her hand while wrestling and was out for a quarter of the season because of it. “I enjoy bringing people to the mat,” Hernandez said. “It’s comforting.”

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