TOPEKA, Kan. (March 14, 2021) – Oklahoma Christian freshman Nathan Curnutt posted a career-best second-place individual finish and the Eagles finished ninth as a team on Sunday in the Jayhawk Collegiate Challenge II tournament at Gage Bowl.

Curnutt, from Cocoa, Fla., posted a score of 858 during the four team games rolled by the Eagles, including games of 230, 235 and 217, to finish as the individual runner-up behind Jared Freed of Ottawa (Kan.), who had a score of 882. Curnutt made the five-player all-tournament team, the first time he's earned that honor in a college event.

Among the 145 bowlers who rolled at least one game, OC junior Josh Imhoff of Cabot, Ark., finished seventh with a score of 833, having started with a 256 and following with a 201.

Only one other OC bowler rolled all four team games – Dalton Smith, a freshman from Blanchard, Okla., who was 42nd at 703. Smith posted a high game of 199. Sam Butler, a junior from Texarkana, Texas, rolled three games for the Eagles with a high score of 192.

Jacob Hastings, a junior from McKinney, Texas, rolled two games for OC, posting scores of 204 and 203. Wyatt Baumgartner, a junior from Derby, Kan., also rolled two games for the Eagles, with a high score of 171, and Jonathan Beyer, a junior from Dallas, rolled one game, a 153 in game four.

The Eagles were fifth among 15 teams after the team games but struggled in the 16 Baker games – only posting one score above 200 – to drop to ninth with an overall score of 6,589. William Penn (Iowa) won the tournament with a score of 7,321.

OC will return to action on March 27-28, when the Eagles will play in the Southwest Intercollegiate Bowling Circuit III and IV tournaments at Firelake Bowl in Shawnee, Okla.