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Offseason bowling work propels Scotties’ Brown to fast start BY JUSTIN FEIL Tyler Brown likes to stay busy, and he made a conscious effort to put more time into bowling in the offseason. He thought he was improving, but slowly. Then the season began. Brown, one of two seniors along with Ryan Smith in Bordentown Regional High School boys’ starting lineup, has made an enormous leap. Through the Scotties’ first five matches, his average was 201.0. That eye-opening figure is nearly 30 pins better than his 173.45 average of a year ago. “Seeing my scores from the end of last season to my practice scores the first week, seeing that difference is kind of like, ‘Whoa,’” Brown said. “It wasn’t like a drop down then you have to get back up. It was just a big jump of improvement. So that’s what made me feel like it paid off. “And then as the season’s progressed, my average is only just rising and same with my teammates.” Brown’s emergence is one reason for confidence from the proud program that they can
again be top competitors for the Burlington County Scholastic League Patriot Division and the Central Jersey, Group 2 sectional. “The two seniors that I have this year were probably two and three last year, and my other junior is new,” said Bordentown coach Ron Jones. “I’m having a hard time figuring out how these kids all came together. Everything about them is good. They’re having fun together. They’re working together. They’re helping each other out. Nobody is left out in the cold.” Bordentown opened with wins in four of their five matches, with only Ewing defeating them. Peter Sukola, a junior, has the high average of 205.2 after bowling a 295 early. Another junior who moved to Bordentown, Gavin Hughes, has been an incredible addition with a 204.86 average. Then it’s Brown right behind followed by fellow classmate Wood, who is averaging 190.57. Kenny Teague and Joey Nyzio are neck and neck at 171.92 and 170.67. Their team-first attitude has manifested itself quickly this See BOWLING, Page 6
Members of the Bordentown Regional High School Model U.N. team include Gabriella Cuccia, Riddhi Rajpal, Kashika Manak, Simond Lulu and back row Kade Sutton, Ethan Vedaraj, Zion Scott and Julianna Morolda.
Bordentown takes top honors at statewide Model United Nations The Bordentown Regional High School Model U.N. team recently won their seventh Best Small School Delegation award at the Rutgers conference. Ethan Vedaraj and Riddhi Rajpal won Best Delegate awards in the UN Human Rights Council. Gabreilla Cuccia won Outstanding Delegate for the Der Bund committee, and Kade Sutton
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won Most Improved in the Transitional Cabinet of Afghanistan. The purpose of the committees is to reach compromises through a series of negotiations. One-day conferences are a sprint, while the four-day conferences are a marathon according to advisor and social studies teacher John Tobias. “The Bordentown students
know how to pace themselves for both,” Tobias said. “There were many Power Delegates from some of the best programs in the region at this conference and the Bordentown students were always in the mix in every committee.” Reflecting on her time in the organization, multi-award winSee MODEL UN, Page 5
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