LAS VEGAS – The Intercollegiate Team Championships wrapped up with the championship rounds on Saturday, and when it ended, more honors came for two UPike bowlers.
 
Graduate students Bryce Oliver and Kristina Catoe were selected to their respective five-player all-tournament teams.
 
"Both Kristina and Bryce were deserving of making the all-tournament teams," said Coach Andrew Dekowski. "It's a perfect way to put a bow on their remarkable careers as college bowlers.
 
"They have represented us with class and dignity since the day they came to campus. We couldn't ask for better representation of our program, our school or our community. I couldn't be happier for them."
 
Catoe, a native of Mooresville, N.C., was selected to the all-tournament team for the second time in her career. Catoe helped her team to a fifth-place finish, bowling the anchor leg for all 24 Baker games in qualifying and all five rounds of match play.
 
Catoe was selected as an honorable mention All-American by the National College Bowling Coaches Association (NCBCA) and the International Bowling Media Association (IBMA). In March, she was named an NAIA first-team All-America for the fifth time.
 
In match play at last week's ITCs, Catoe had 31 strikes in her five matches, during which she bowled two frames per game in the Baker format.
 
Oliver is from Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio. He was named first-team All-America by the NCBCA and, under a different voting format, an honorable-mention All-America by the IBMA.
 
In March, he was honored as the NAIA Bowler of the Year and was named an All-American for the third time in his career.
 
In four rounds of match play, Oliver rolled 32 strikes in the ITCs last week, helping his team to a seventh-place finish in the national tournament.
 
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