But on Thursday at Boardwalk Bowl, East River\u2019s reign ended at the hands of Cambridge Christian of Tampa, which beat the Falcons twice.<\/p>\n
The Lancers swept East River 3-0 in the winners bracket, and the Falcons returned for a rematch after beating Coral Springs Charter 3-1 in the losers bracket.<\/p>\n
The three-time champs didn\u2019t go down easy, taking two of the first three games in the best-of-five match before losing to the Lancers in five (191-194, 166-163, 166-175, 237-172, 194-180).<\/p>\n
\u201cAs hard as it is to lose, any team in any sport in the state would take three state titles and a runner-up in four years,\u201d East River coach Tom Tagye said. \u201cHeck, anyone would take one of those. We\u2019re disappointed with how we bowled today, but it doesn\u2019t diminish what we\u2019ve accomplished.\u201d<\/p>\n
Falcons\u2019 anchor, Larielle Tharps, has been part of all three championships and this runner-up, in addition to a state individual runner-up finish earlier on Thursday.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was a tough loss, but I\u2019m surrounded by great teammates, and I\u2019m proud of what we\u2019ve accomplished,\u201d said Tharps, who will continue bowling at college powerhouse Wichita State next year. \u201cIt\u2019s been a great four years with only three matches lost.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat pair of lanes for the final (57 and 58) wasn\u2019t easy. I struggled on that pair a little in an individual match.\u201d<\/p>\n
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University High (Orange City) bowler Nathan Tills helped the Titans finish third in the FHSAA bowling state tournament at Boardwalk Bowl in Orlando. (Ricardo Ramirez Buxeda\/ Orlando Sentinel)<\/p>\n
In the boys bracket, University (Orange City) also came into the day undefeated. But the Titans lost to Ridgeview 3-0 in the winners bracket, then lost to eventual champion SLAM Tampa 3-2 in the losers bracket final.<\/p>\n
University was down 2-0 in that match, but came back to force the fifth game after a 279 in game four.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe came back from 0-2 twice already, and I thought we were going to do it again after that 279,\u201d University coach Scott Gill said. \u201cThe boys couldn\u2019t find the line in the first two games, but they regrouped and fought hard.\u201d<\/p>\n
Since the Titans finished in the top three, Gill said they should get invited to the National High School Championships next year in Columbus, Ohio, and he said they would probably accept the invite.<\/p>\n
Hagerty finished fourth. The Huskies needed five games to edge East River and Leesburg before losing to SLAM in an elimination match.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe had a strong start in the morning, but we struggled against SLAM,\u201d Hagerty coach Brittany Ziobro said. \u201cIt was a great season and the furthest these players have gone (in the state tourney).\u201d<\/p>\n
The match against the Falcons provided the most exciting moment on Thursday morning. East River opened with a rare 300 (all strikes) in the Baker format, and that was followed by another 300 in the match by Park Vista.<\/p>\n
Varsity content editor Buddy Collings can be contacted by email at bcollings@orlandosentinel.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It took four years for a team to figure out how to beat the East River girls bowling…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":443695,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[3745,139,141,140,76046,76642,110],"class_list":["post-443694","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-orlando","tag-high-school-sports","tag-orlando","tag-orlando-headlines","tag-orlando-news","tag-social-sports","tag-social-varsity-sports","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443694","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=443694"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443694\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/443695"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=443694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=443694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=443694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}