Replay: Brother Martin, Dutchtown win High School Bowling Invitational titles

BATON ROUGE – Brother Martin has won six of the last seven boys bowling state championships, but had never won the annual High School Invitational tournament.

That changed Saturday when the Crusaders defeated Archbishop Shaw 3-1 in the best-of-five championship match of the event, which has teams bowling in a Baker format in which five bowlers each bowl two frames of a game.

The Dutchtown girls defeated Academy of Our Lady 3-0 to win the girls’ title.

The title matches were broadcast live by Crescent City Sports.

Brother Martin, which grabbed the fourth and final spot in the championship bracket after a qualifying round in which the top eight games of 10 counted to the team score, swept top-seeded Central in the semifinals as Ashton Catalinotto doubled in the 10th frame to clinch the second and third games.

Shaw, which was seeded second, rallied to defeat No. 3 seed Central Lafourche in five games. The Eagles opened the deciding game with six consecutive strikes and finished with a 237.

Dutchtown, the girls’ No. 1 seed, reached the final with a hard-fought five-game victory over No. 4 seed Archbishop Chapelle. Anchor and Nebraska signee Ashtyn Yoches closed out the final game with a 10th-frame double.

AOL, seeded third, defeated No. 2 seed St. Amant in four games to reach the championship.

Chapelle won the third-place match over St. Amant in four games.