UNIVERSITY PLACE — South Kitsap had 6,956 pins to finish sixth during last week’s Class 4A state bowling championships at Narrows Plaza Bowl.

Battle Ground won the competition with 7,809, while Spanaway Lake’s Carolina Snowden finished first among individual bowlers with 1,227 pins.

The Wolves’ top individual placer was sophomore Sarah Stolle, who had 1,069 pins to place ninth.

“She’s got so much potential,” South coach Lee La Deaux said. “If she can learn a couple of little things in the next few years, the sky’s the limit for her. It depends on what she puts into it.”

La Deaux said Stolle’s reaction afterward indicates that won’t be a concern.

“It bothered her, which is good,” said La Deaux, adding that Stolle was one spare short during both days combined of a top-eight finish. “She’s serious about bowling.”

As for the team, La Deaux said they were just 14 pins out of first place with three games remaining. But La Deaux said a strong performance by Spanaway Lake combined with “a couple of missed spares” dropped the Wolves to 71 pins behind.

“It was a pretty big hill to climb at that point,” he said.

South, which has advanced to state the last two seasons, projects to return three starters during the 2015-16 school year: Stolle and classmate Mae Jacobson and Libby Morey, who will be a senior.