Fayetteville, Bentonville Take Second At State Bowling

Fayetteville senior Bryant Ezell won medalist honors at the Class 7A state bowling tournament Monday, scoring an 806 total over three games to help the Bulldogs to a runner-up finish at Bowling World in Fort Smith.

Ezell rolled a 296 in his first game, followed by scores of 267 and 243 to easily defeat Ben Morris of Conway, who scored 737. The Bulldogs as a team totaled 4,564, second to state champion Cabot’s total of 4,790.

The Cabot girls made it a sweep for the Panthers and Lady Panthers on Monday, defeating runner-up Bentonville by a close 3,651 to 3,566 margin. Lainey Lopez led the Lady Tigers with a third-place individual finish, scoring 570.

Rogers High junior Haley Williams finished second overall with a score of 648 to help the Lady Mounties to a fourth-place finish.

Along with Fayetteville’s runner-up finish in the boys tournament, Bentonville scored 4,171 points to place fifth.

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