{"id":243439,"date":"2026-05-26T01:40:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-26T01:40:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/243439\/"},"modified":"2026-05-26T01:40:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-26T01:40:08","slug":"three-huskers-finish-top-fifteen-at-u22-queens-two-make-junior-team-usa-university-of-nebraska","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/243439\/","title":{"rendered":"Three Huskers finish top-fifteen at U22 Queens, two make Junior Team USA – University of Nebraska"},"content":{"rendered":"

Orlando, Fla. –\u00a0Three Huskers bowlers have ended their run in the U22 Queens Tournament in the top 15. Desiree Buchert<\/a> led the trio of Cornhuskers, finishing seventh, followed by Abby Starkey<\/a> in ninth and Haley Swindle<\/a> in thirteenth. The latter two also qualified for Junior Team USA 2027 after respectively finishing third and fourth of all eligible bowlers.<\/p>\n

Swindle finished the qualifying rounds with a 2,943 pinfall, earning the No. 10 seed. She won her first match of bracket play 398-353 before being sent to the elimination bracket in by Buchert in round two, 419-405. Swindle survived her first elimination match 466-456 before falling in her second match to No. 15 seed Erin Klemencic, 450-420.<\/p>\n

Starkey claimed the No. 8 seed with her qualifier performance, shooting a total pinfall of 3,023. She came out on top in her first bracket match, 455-453, before being sent to the elimination bracket by the No. 1 seed and eventual champion, Melia Mitskavich, 490-413. Starkey played Klemencic directly after Swindle did, falling in similar fashion, 395-350.<\/p>\n

Buchert ended the qualifier as the No. 7 seed, knocking 3,028 pins in the process. She faced her teammate Swindle in her first bracket match, claiming victory before losing to No. 2 seed and eventual runner-up Katelyn Abigania 447-386. Buchert stayed alive after winning her first elimination match, 364-355, before her run was ended by No. 22 seed Savannah Burgin, 439-416.<\/p>\n

Stay up to date with the action by following Nebraska Women’s Bowling on X (@HuskerBowling), Instagram (@huskerbowling) and Facebook.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Orlando, Fla. –\u00a0Three Huskers bowlers have ended their run in the U22 Queens Tournament in the top 15.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":243440,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[9,24,63,122,124,123],"class_list":["post-243439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-queens","tag-queens-headlines","tag-queens-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243439","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=243439"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243439\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/243440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}