By TYLER HENRY
Lead Sportswriter - Salina Post
17,727 pins.
That’s the number Rocelyn Show has knocked down during her three years on the lanes competing as a member of the Salina Central bowling team.
On Friday, Rocelyn will travel to Wichita for the big one, as the Mustang senior prepares to compete in one last 5A state bowling tournament before graduation this spring.
Whether she returns to Salina with hardware in hand or not, Show has already etched her name into the Mustang record books in a career with numbers straight out of a simulation.
Before the final competition on March 1st, Show sits as the all-time leader in bowling average (200) and holds the single-season records for total pins (6,587) and single-season high-series (678).
Despite being a member of the team for just three years, she also ranks second in total career pins at Central, just 4,000 off all-time leader Cheyenne O’Connor.
All of this built to an excellent performance at regionals last week, where Show finished fourth in Hutch as the only participant of the 66 in play to bowl 200 or better in two of her three games.
While all of this is impressive on its own, the coll-bound athlete will also be in search of some redemption this Friday, after suffering a knee injury in her first game at state a season ago.
Show will get her chance when the lanes open at Bowlero Northrock in Wichita at 1:15 PM.
Results of this year’s 5A KSHSAA state bowling competition can be found here.