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Jonathan Alder's Damron, Reynoldsburg's Dean lead central Ohio at OHSAA DI boys bowling
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A tie for fourth place between Jonathan Alder senior Drew Damron and Reynoldsburg junior Quinn Dean led central Ohio in the Division I state boys bowling tournament Saturday at HP Lanes.
Both rolled a 705 series.
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Last year's state runner-up and this season's district champion, Damron was making his third state tournament appearance. Dean, the district runner-up, was at state for the second consecutive season and improved by 21 places from a year ago.
Damron had games of 187, 240 and 278. Dean bowled games of 247, 227 and 231.
Both earned first-team all-state honors.
Parma Padua freshman Zachary Mayne won the individual title with a state tournament-record 858. He rolled a 300 game in the third round after two games of 279.
Immediately behind Damron and Dean were the Gahanna Lincoln duo of junior Kael Clous (sixth, 700) and sophomore Mitchell Genson (seventh, 693).
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Gahanna led central Ohio's three teams with an 11th-place finish (3,952), 61 pins shy of the top-eight placement needed to advance to the team finals.
Senior Will Gray (tied for 48th, 606) was the only other Lions bowler to score in all three games.
Gahanna also got contributions from senior Brayden Anderson (93rd, 193), freshman Bryland Alexander (98th, 181), sophomore Caleb Petit (100th, 176) and freshman Philip Boswell (105th, 146).
Reynoldsburg placed 14th (3,649) in its first state appearance as a team since 2015.
Scoring behind Dean were senior Brandon Conrad (69th, 547), senior Jacob Terpenning (72nd, 493), junior Cayden Griffin (82nd, 341) and sophomore Zach McKay (85th, 280).
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Senior Lucas Hoffman (tied for 20th, 652) led Marysville to 15th place (3,610) in its state debut.
Junior Braiden McMahan was 42nd (620), followed by freshman Hayden Cotterell (60th, 579) and sophomore Grayson Young (84th, 322). Juniors Kai Kozlik (99th, 177) and Carson Blevins (102nd, 161) and senior Quinn Peterson (104th, 156) bowled one game each.
DeSales junior Darren Thomas tied for 29th (644) and Olentangy Berlin freshman Cayden Cherry placed 33rd (642). They joined Damron as the area's individual qualifiers.
Ashland defeated Youngstown Boardman for the team championship.
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This article originally appeared on The Columbus Dispatch: OHSAA bowling tournament: Central Ohio boys Division I state recap
