The Smyrna High School girls’ bowling team will be back at its home center for one more competition in the 2012-13 season.
The Lady Bulldogs will be participating in the TSSAA Division I state tournament Friday in Smyrna, Tenn., after defeating Soddy-Daisy 19-8 in a sectional Saturday afternoon at Holiday Bowl Hixson. Smyrna took control with a 7-1 score in the first game, and its pin-total advantage in the second game sent it to the third game needing only two girls to win their matchups or the Lady Trojans to win by fewer than 75 pins overall.
At Galaxy Lanes in Columbia, meanwhile, Region 4 champion Columbia Central overcame a 4-4 start with a 21-6 win over Region 3 runner-up Walker Valley.
In boys’ sectionals Monday, Soddy-Daisy will be an underdog at Columbia while Walker Valley hosts Smyrna at Leisure Time Bowling in Cleveland, beginning at 1 p.m.
“The girls were really uptight when we started, and it took them a while to get loose,” Soddy-Daisy coach David O’Malley Sr. said. “They finished the first game strong, but they had got themselves in a hole they couldn’t get out of.