GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. --- Tusculum University's Tyler Moore has advanced to the Sweet 16 round of the 2021 Intercollegiate Singles Championship, which is being held Tuesday and Wednesday at the Spectrum Entertainment Complex.

Moore finished ninth in Tuesday's qualifying round and won his initial elimination match in the afternoon to move onto Wednesday's second round in the ISC national championship bracket.

Moore, a junior from Lebanon, Tennessee, bowled a six-game total 1,170 pinfall to gain the ninth seed, missing the top-eight and a first-round bye by a single pin.

He was paired against Ryan Taylor of Pikeville and defeated him 590-579 in the single-elimination, three-game total pinfall match. With the victory, Moore moves onto Wednesday's second round match again No. 8 seed Joshua Imhoff (Oklahoma Christian). The winner of that match will move onto Wednesday's quarterfinal against the either top-seeded Alec Kepilinger (Wichita State) and No. 17 Cory Hersha (Indiana Tech).

In Tuesday's qualifying round, Moore bowled a 192 in his first game, but followed with a 167 in his second. He bounced back with games of 203 and 223, followed by 171 in his fifth game and finished with 214 in his final outing of the round.

Keplinger earned the top-seed with his six-game total 1,318 while Peter Vergos (Calumet College of St. Joseph) was second with 1,308.  The St. Ambrose pair of Jordan Monnens and Zack Denton are third and fourth with scores of 1,273 and 1,238, respectively. Andrew Gross (Wisconsin-Whitewater) is the No. 4 seed with 1,188, followed by Conner Novak (Notre Dame College), Jake Toelke (Thomas Moore) and Imhoff who all earned byes, finishing in the top-eight.