BY WENDI REARDON PRICE
Clarkston News Sports Writer
With a mix of wins and losses to open the season, Clarkston High School bowlers shared everything was going well.
“It’s going good so far,” said Cale Herzenstiel from the Wolves Boys Varsity Bowling team, adding he knows what he has to work on to make his personal game better. “For me, it’s consistency. I can throw the ball well and get spares. I just can’t do it multiple times.”
“Things we should work on are consistency and spare shooting,” said Patrick McLetchie. “Cale, me and our freshman team continue to keep our scores high so far. We have led our team to do well up to this point.”
Ashley Elinski added the girls varsity team started off well, too.
“Our scores have been pretty high so that’s good,” she said. “Our averages are good, too. We are not perfect. We are working on becoming better.”

They are working towards personal goals and team goals as they came back from holiday break.
Hannah Turk and Elinski shared they are working on being consistent in their game and also the whole team is working on being supportive of each other.
“We need to work on being supportive of each other and cheering each other on when we are doing well and helping to pick each other up when we aren’t doing too well,” Elinski said. “Some personal things I need to work on is being consistent with every first ball I throw because when I go to college to bowl that’s what it’s going to be the most important is throwing the same shot every time.”
Turk added she is working on being a better team leader.
“It’s what you have to do when you have new people,” Turk added. “Ashley and me have been bowling for a long time. We have more experience. It’s hard for the other teammates because they get more frustrated.”
“As a team I want to see more consistency and more of not getting too high or too low that emotionally on the same level,” McLetchie said.
All four look forward to regionals.
“It’s a long ways away but always exciting,” Elinski smiled.
“Hoping to do really good in regionals,” Herzenstiel added. “If we could make states that would be really cool.”
Upcoming meets they are looking forward to are Lake Orion, Jan. 14; and Oxford, Feb. 10.
The Wolves posted wins over Royal Oak before heading into the holiday break.
The boys varsity team won their match, 25-5. McLetchie had 255 and 287 games; Christian Bradford had 242 and 216 games; and Herzenstiel had a 189 game.
The boys JV team won their match 28-2. Nick Stephens had 170 and 151 games; Nathan Jenkinson had 163 and 143 games and Chandler Fleming had 143 and 103 games.
The girls varsity team won their match, 28-2. Gabrielle Preston had 139 and 108 games; Angelina Stowers had 186 and 132 games; Elinski had 191 and 197 games; and Turk had 179 and 170 games.
All three lost to Farmington when they returned from break, Jan. 7. The boys varsity team lost 22.5-7.5. Herzenstial won his second game with 254. McLetchie tied with 195.
The girls varsity team lost, 26-4. Elinski won her first game with 227 and her second game with 221. Stowers won her second game with 137 and Turk also won her second game, 235.