Jonesboro, Ark. – No. 5 Louisiana Tech Bowling finished with a seventh place standing at the Mid-Winter Invitational in Jonesboro, Ark. this weekend. 
 
Tech started the weekend red hot posting a 5-0 Friday during the Baker matches beginning by taking down the No. 1 team in the country, McKendree, for the second time in as many weeks (1005-935). 
 
They then rattled off four more wins including some revenge from last weekend's tournament over hosts No. 7 Arkansas State (1058-1045), Jackson State (1011-956), Maryville (1031-1020), and No. 9 Youngstown State (1104-1033). The Techsters finished day one sitting at No. 5 overall with a total pinfall of 5,209.
 
Tech fell one spot to No. 6 overall after the Saturday Traditional slate going 3-2 on the day. The Techsters began the day with a win over Tusculum (960-862) before falling to Wisconsin-Whitewater (1016-1022) and No. 15 Tulane (1043-1056). 
 
Tech then rebounded over Kentucky Wesleyan (1042-1012) and Tusculum (1029-904) to end the day and 8-2 in qualifying over the weekend. Tech is now 58-13 in qualifying matches this season. 
 
Sunday's best-of-seven Baker bracket play pit LA Tech again against hosts No. 7 Arkansas State. Tech fell in the match 4-2 (178-184, 180-244, 241-224, 206-236, 208-168, 191-210). 
 
Tech would then face No. 19 Sacred Heart but fell again 4-2 in the series (195-257, 206-172, 211-232, 246-247, 216-169, 201-233).
 
The Techsters, however, ended the weekend on the right side of things with a payback win over No. 9 Youngstown State six games (226-180, 173-224, 211-215, 211-183, 210-209, 203-167) to finish No. 7 out of the 18 participating programs. 
 
The Lady Techsters had four bowlers break the 1,000-pin mark in their individual efforts led by Allie Leiendecker with a total of 1,056 (205, 172, 247, 184, 248) who finished No. 17 in the overall individual standings. 
 
Emma Koch finished just outside the top 20 overall at No. 22 with a total of 1,041 (167, 247, 217, 197, 213). 
 
Danielle Jedlicki finished top 30 with 1,025 pins (191, 225, 211, 233, 165) and Patricia Rosales finished just outside of the top 30 (No. 32) with a pinfall of 1,021 (194, 175, 203, 222, 227).
 
NOTABLES

• Louisiana Tech is now 58-13 in qualifying matches this season.
• Tech went 9-4 overall on the weekend posting four wins over top 10 programs.
• Tech now has seven wins over top five-ranked teams in the 2022 portion of the season's schedule. 
• Tech finished with the third highest win total (9) and fifth best overall team average per game this weekend at 206.1. 

QUOTABLES
Head Coach Matt Nantais…
"We did not place as high as we wanted to for this event, but on a positive note we went nine and four for the weekend winning 70 percent of our matches.  Spare shooting in qualifying was our downfall this weekend. On Sunday we threw the ball great, we just didn't get the breaks needed to win those matches. We're looking forward to taking a couple weeks off of travel before our next event to give everybody some rest. Everybody who traveled this week contributed to the success we had."
 
UP NEXT
Louisiana Tech will get a week off to prepare for the USBC Sectionals taking place March 11-13. Tech will learn the location of their Sectionals competition on Feb. 23. Sectionals is comprised of four locations with the top four teams in each location advancing. 
 
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