Waynesboro, PA- Mount Aloysius Bowling kicked off the 2018-19 season with a 4th place finish at the Mount Shootout hosted by Mount St. Mary's in Waynesboro, PA on Saturday and Sunday.

On the first day of the event the Mounties played in 5 traditional matches in which they posted a 4-1 record.  They won matches against New Jersey City University 888-747; Kutztown 935-927; Medaille 925-862 and Roberts Weselyan 933-832.  The only loss on the day was to Felician 838-909. Rayissa Amon continued her success story with a 201.6 average for 5 games, an achievement that landed her on the All Tournament Team. Casey Schaffer rolled an impressive 188 average for 4 games and freshman Kaitlyn Klein rolled a 180 average for 5 games. At the end of Day One, the Lady Mounties were in fourth place in the twelve team field. MAC bowling broke yet another school record averaging 180.76, the highest team average ever in MAC bowling tournament play.

Day Two consisted of two five game baker matches and two best 4 of 7 bracket play baker matches.  Match one was a challenge for the Mounties facing a red hot Mount St. Mary's team who had the home lane advantage. MAC bowling gave them a close match 852-886. Match two was a pool match against Wilmington University in which MAC lost 837-927. The bracket play rounds were set and MAC faced the tournament leader SFU. In the high level match MAC and SFU each won 3 games and the teams tied one game resulting a 6-10 frame roll off where SFU took the win 104/94. Other match scores were MAC 194/181, 219/188, 163/200, 211/201, 196/196, 170/196 and 179/192. The Lady Mounties then faced Kutztown for the final match of the day and ultimately fell to the Golden Bears with scores of 157/162, 195/161, 159/171, 182/153, 169/234, 187/147 and 190/200. Once again the Lady Mounties broke their school record with a 177.5 team baker average. High scorer for the day was Amon posting a 19.5 baker frame average, Schaffer with a 18.4 and Jessica Bello rounding out the top 3 with a 18.3.

Coach Jones said, "Although the win-loss record was not what we hoped for, this team proved that we are a force to be reckoned with. Our traditional average was right where it needs to be and our baker average was above the goal we set for ourselves.  The freshmen were unshaken and strong and the upperclassmen proved that they are the real deal. This is going to be a year of many firsts and I am very confident that we are going to see a lot of success in 2018-19."

The team is off for two weeks before heading to Virginia Union University to face a 20 team field including many top 20 teams.