Despite history, Waukon girls and boys bowling teams fall at Decorah; Senior Cody Huinker bowls program’s first-ever 300-pin perfect game


Pin perfection for historic Huinker... The scoreboard above tells the tale as Waukon boys bowling senior Cody Huinker stands proudly in front of the perfect game of 300 pins he rolled in the Indians’ 2768-2957 loss at Decorah Friday, December 2. As the 12 X’s across the bottom of that scoreboard indicate, Huinker bowled 12 consecutive strikes in his second game of the initial head-to-head round of competition against the host Vikings, rolling the first-ever perfect 300 game in the young history of the Waukon High School bowling program. That historic 300 game was coupled with a 216 first game to also help Huinker rewrite his own additional school record with a 516-pin series. Photo courtesy of Amanda Peterson.

Bowling in their first road competition of the new season, the Waukon girls and boys bowling teams both came up a bit shy of recording a victory in their Friday, December 2 competition at Decorah. However, all in attendance at the event were able to witness a first-time accomplishment for the Waukon bowling program, as Waukon boys bowling senior Cody Huinker continued to imprint his name at the top of the program’s bowling elite with the first perfect game of all strikes (300 pins) ever bowled by a Waukon High School bowler in competition.

That historic feat of 300-game perfection obviously established a new Waukon boys bowling record that can only be tied - and never be broken, bettering Huinker’s previous single-game school record of 280 pins. The Indian senior furthered his historic evening on the lanes by rolling a new single-series record of 516 pins in his two head-to-head games Friday, improving upon his own previous program standard of 492 pins.

Despite all the Huinker history made at Decorah, neither the Waukon boys nor the Waukon girls team could come away with a victory against the host Vikings. The Lady Indians bowled to a 2039-2528 loss, while the Waukon boys finished on the short end of a 2768-2957 result against the Vikings, both teams suffering their first losses of the young Waukon bowling season.

The bowling Indians are next scheduled to travel to North Iowa this Friday, December 9. Waukon’s bowlers will then have one final match before the holiday break, returning home for a Friday, December 16 contest with Waverly-Shell Rock.

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