{"id":46467,"date":"2024-04-04T01:25:38","date_gmt":"2024-04-04T01:25:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/llleaguesportsvideos.com\/?p=46467"},"modified":"2024-04-04T01:43:27","modified_gmt":"2024-04-04T01:43:27","slug":"malia-briggs-wins-state-bowling-title","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/llleaguesportsvideos.com\/?p=46467","title":{"rendered":"Malia Briggs wins state bowling title"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"position:relative;padding-bottom:56.25%;overflow:hidden;height:0;max-width:100%;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" id=\"92feb9415625f6abe4f820692f644f68-vod-3d08b2fc-a9f2-4512-90b6-f51422558470\" src=\"https:\/\/iframe.dacast.com\/vod\/92feb9415625f6abe4f820692f644f68\/3d08b2fc-a9f2-4512-90b6-f51422558470\" width=\"100%\" height=\"420\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allow=\"autoplay;encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen oallowfullscreen msallowfullscreen style=\"position:absolute;top:0;left:0;\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Malia Briggs of Chambersburg won the PA State High School Bowling Championship in girls singles last Saturday at Lancaster\u2019s Leisure Lanes. Click on the photo for a video of her bowling.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, she is not in the LL League but a state championship from a player in the Susquehanna Valley is worth reporting about.<\/p>\n<p>Briggs, a sophomore at Chambersburg, became the first known local bowling champion when she was crowned the winner of the PA State High School Championships last Saturday in Lancaster.<\/p>\n<p>Briggs was the top qualifier, earning the No. 1 seed for the finals. In the step-ladder finals, No. 5 plays No. 4 and the winner plays No. 3; the winner of that match plays No. 2 and the winner then takes on the No. 1 seed for the title.<\/p>\n<p>Malia Briggs stated:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe had to wait about 15 minutes for the scores to get added up, and then it was about an hour until I was able to compete,\u201d Briggs said. \u201cThe worst part was the wait because you had to watch everybody else bowl. But at least I knew I was guaranteed first or second place.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo I just forced myself to take deep breaths to calm myself down. And I kept thinking: \u2018This is what I practice for.&#8217;\u201d <\/p>\n<p>All that practice paid off handsomely when Briggs put together a fine score of 247 to defeat Taylor Miller of Warwick, who managed 193 pins.<\/p>\n<p>Briggs said, \u201cIt was close after three frames, but when I got a turkey (3 straight strikes) in the ninth frame, I knew there was nothing she could do to beat me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The top 12 qualifiers from the East Regional (which had 112 entrants) and the top 12 from the West Regional (73 entrants) advanced to the state tournament, with Briggs getting in via an 8th-place finish.<\/p>\n<p>At states, held at Leisure Lanes, each bowler rolled six qualifying games. Briggs, who said her current average is around 200, got hot right away with a 232 in her first game, then followed it up with games of 236, 223, 262, 213 and 173.<\/p>\n<p>That gave her a total of 1,339 pins, which was +139 over the standard of 200, and was an average of 223. That earned her the No. 1 seed over Miller (1,315), Amelia Droste of Hempfield (1,289), Rayana Gonzales of CD East (1,267) and Mackenzie Livingston of Freeport (1,239).<\/p>\n<p>Briggs was using a new ball, a 900 Global Harsh Reality, for states and she said, \u201cThat ball worked really well.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Her run to the state title began in late January when she finished in the top four at a qualifier for wild cards, which are players who don\u2019t have a high school team to bowl with. The Trojans do not have a bowling team.<\/p>\n<p>Briggs, 15, began bowling when she was 10, thanks to a family that loves the sport.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy mom plays, my dad plays, my grandfather played and now my brother plays, too,\u201d Briggs said. \u201cI used to play basketball, but I stopped when I decided to get serious about bowling.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>How serious? Well, her main goal is to land a Division I scholarship for bowling. Way down the road, she\u2019d love to be good enough to play on the PWBA (Professional Women\u2019s Bowling Association) tour.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think I have an opportunity for a scholarship in college,\u201d she said. \u201cIn the meantime, I like to compete, I like to travel and I\u2019ve met a lot of friends in bowling.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>You don\u2019t get good at something without putting the time in, and Briggs does that.<\/p>\n<p>She has a new coach, Joe Hulala, who works with her on Tuesday nights at ABC North Lanes in Harrisburg, and sometimes on weekends.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI started with him three months ago and he\u2019s really helped,\u201d Briggs said. \u201cMy scores are getting better. I\u2019m staying behind the ball and my release is better, and he\u2019s helped my ball speed, too.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The home lanes for Briggs is Nellie Fox Bowl and she\u2019ll practice there four or five times a week for an hour. So that\u2019s about 6 hours of work each week.<\/p>\n<p>And that doesn\u2019t include tournaments. Briggs is gone most weekends to some type of junior tournament, racking up valuable experience. She\u2019s been to events all over the Mid-Atlantic, the Carolinas, in Virginia and plenty of Midwest states, and last year competed in Texas.<\/p>\n<p>Her next big event is a Storm Youth Championship (SYC) tournament in Michigan in April. The national tournament, which she qualified for by winning states, will be held in June back at Leisure Lanes. And the Junior Gold Tournament, which Briggs says in the biggest in the world, is in Detroit in July.<\/p>\n<p>And, in case you think her head is already spinning, there\u2019s more.<\/p>\n<p>Briggs is sponsored by Storm, which provides her balls and equipment; by Vice, for her inserts; and by Coolwick, for her apparel. She is also in the Storm Evolution program this year, in which she meets certain challenges and then posts a video about it.<\/p>\n<p>And she\u2019s a bit of a social media influencer, posting videos on YouTube and Instagram.<\/p>\n<p>In fact, Briggs also took the time to design her own bowling shirt, which was then produced by Coolwick.<\/p>\n<p>All this is Briggs\u2019 way of showing that she is definitely serious about bowling.<\/p>\n<p>And she has a state championship to prove it.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/llleaguesportsvideos.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Screenshot-2024-04-03-at-9.29.03-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1090\" height=\"738\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-46469\" srcset=\"https:\/\/llleaguesportsvideos.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Screenshot-2024-04-03-at-9.29.03-PM.png 1090w, https:\/\/llleaguesportsvideos.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Screenshot-2024-04-03-at-9.29.03-PM-300x203.png 300w, https:\/\/llleaguesportsvideos.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Screenshot-2024-04-03-at-9.29.03-PM-1024x693.png 1024w, https:\/\/llleaguesportsvideos.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Screenshot-2024-04-03-at-9.29.03-PM-768x520.png 768w, https:\/\/llleaguesportsvideos.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Screenshot-2024-04-03-at-9.29.03-PM-190x130.png 190w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1090px) 100vw, 1090px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Malia Briggs of Chambersburg won the PA State High School Bowling Championship in girls singles last Saturday at Lancaster\u2019s Leisure Lanes. 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