Hamburg, NY - Despite a tough start, the Mount Aloysius Women's Bowling team fought back at the first AMCC Round Robin Tournament over the weekend to finish the weekend with a 4-2 record. The tournament was a 5 game Baker format that saw the Mounties play in 4 matches on Saturday and close the weekend with 2 matches on Sunday.

The Lady Mounties split the first day of competition, dropping the first two matches and winning the final two. Despite leading the first match against conference newcomers Saint Vincent College for the first four games, the Mounties fell by a score of 1026 to 1008 as the Bearcats rolled a 243 in the final game to take the match. Mount Aloysius rolled a strong second game however lost again to the reigning conference champions, Medaille, 983-928. The Mounties struck back in the third match of the day. They bowled another match well over 900 as they defeated Pitt-Bradford 960-899. They closed the day with a win over the hosts, Hilbert, by a score of 810-645. The Mounties only played 2 matches on the final day of competition. In the first match they took down Penn State Altoona with a score of 922-605. They finished competitive play with a win over New Jersey City. They won a much closer game to close the weekend, winning by a score of 883-849.  

Individually, Freshmen Nicole Nebel led the Mounties as she averaged 20.1 pins per frame while bowling 29 frames. Senior Rayissa Amon also put on a strong performance finishing just behind her with a per frame average of 19.8 pins over 74 frames. Freshman Megan Weaver made her Baker debut for the Mounties and scored an impressive 18.2 average in 24 frames. Finally Jessica Bello rounded out the Lady Mounties top 4 with a 17.9 pin average in 26 frames. 

According to Coach Jones, "Lane conditions on Saturday made it easy to score, however they played much differently on the second day, and every shot was more challenging. We have a bit of cleanup work to do over the next 3 weeks before we will take the lanes for 4 major tournaments to close our season."

The Mounties are currently in 3rd place in conference play with a 4-2 record. They will return to AMCC  play in March when they will participate in the second weekend of Round Robin play in Bayonne, NJ. After they complete regular season AMCC play they will bowl in the USBC Sectionals, the Music City Invitational in Nashville TN and the AMCC Championship Tournament.