Bradford, PA - The Mount Aloysius Bowling team saw its season come to an end over the weekend as they fell to Medaille College in a winner take all tiebreaker in the final match. The Championships were a double elimination tournament that saw the Mounties enter as the 2nd seed, with Medaille College as #1, Saint Vincent College as #3 and the hosts, Pitt-Bradford as #4. The teams would play one Traditional format match and one Baker format five game series, with a 7 game Baker format tiebreaker in effect if the teams split the first two formats.

The AMCC Championships started with a Friday match against St. Vincent. The Mounties fell in the traditional format by a score of 940-928. Kaitlyn Klein (Eire, PA/Mercyhurst Prep) led the way for the Mounties rolling a match high 233. The Mounties were able to respond in the Baker match, easily taking care of the Bearcats 892-777. In the best of 7 tiebreaker, the teams took turns winning each game as Saint Vincent would win and the Mounties would respond to even the match. Mount Aloysius dominated the final game, clinching the match victory with aa 189-146 victory. The scores of the tie breaker games were 177-180, 171-155, 173-174, 176-170, 185-203, 177-153 and 189-146.

Victory in the first match moved the Mounties into a winners bracket game against top ranked Medaille. The Mavericks came out firing as they easily dispatched the Mounties in both formats. They took the traditional match 867-772 and the Baker 1,021-873. The loss led the Mounties to a rematch with Saint Vincent in a win or go home match to play for the conference title. The Mounties responded to their early morning troubles, coming back with a win in the traditional format 832-806. Michelle Bello (Pennsauken, NJ/Pennsauken) rolled the high game in the format with a 204. In the Baker match, the Mounties were outlasted 844-798 to set up another 7 game Baker tiebreak. The Mounties would not need as long to clinch the victory as the night before, as they won 4 straight games to put the match away. The scores were 182-142, 182-169, 158-130, 185-121.

The Mounties came back Sunday morning for a rematch with Medaille for the conference title. Mount Aloysius came out firing in the traditional format, taking down the Mavericks 898-852. Rayissa Amon (Bloomfield, NY/Bloomfield) and Casey Schaffer (Levittown, PA/Bucks County Technical) each fired games over 200, with Amon posting a 213 and Schaffer a 210. Medaille battled back in the Baker format, edging Mount Aloysius 863-823. The loss in Baker led the Mounties to another tiebreaker scenario, which they had already seen the past two days. The Mounties were able to win the first game 188-143 to get ahead, however saw the Mavericks reply with a 112-183 victory in the second game. Mount Aloysius responded and picked up the third and fourth games 146-141 and 197-159, only to see Medaille respond again to force a deciding 7th game, winning 166-224 and 155-186. The Mounties were able to come out on top of the deciding game 170-148 to win the match.

The Mounties win forced a 7 game Baker format tiebreaker between the Mount Aloysius and Medaille to determine the AMCC champions. The Mounties kept momentum in the first game winning 162-145, but saw the top seed run away from them as they lost the next 4 games 178-202, 186-228 and 149-172. With the tiebreaker loss the Mounties AMCC season ended as runners up.

The tournament saw the end of an era in Mount Aloysius Bowling as seniors Rayissa Amon and Jessica Bello (Pennsauken, NJ/Pennsauken) ended their 4 years with the Lady Mounties. Amon has previously been awarded 3 times as the Conference Bowler of the Year, and placed on the All-Conference team in her previous three years. Bello was a key cog to 3 AMCC Regular season champion teams, and was named to the All-Conference team 1 time. When reflecting about the two seniors, Coach Barb Jones said, "Both gave all they had this past weekend in the team effort to secure the first AQ into the NCAA Championship. Through their hard work and dedication these two seniors have given to MAC bowling, a great bowling program has developed here and their efforts are truly admirable. We are all grateful for their commitment!"

Both Seniors were honored on the AMCC All-Tournament Team. This weekend, Amon, in her final event as a collegiate bowler, rolled an impressive 20.2 baker frame average over 99 frames of grueling competition as well as a 173 traditional average for 4 games. Bello averaged 15.9 in the baker format for 80 frames and a 167 average for 4 games of traditional play. 

Many other members of the MAC team stepped up to the challenge on a very difficult lane condition. Casey Schaffer who rolled her way to a 18.8 baker frame average for 71 frames and the team high traditional average of 196 for 2 games.  Following in her footsteps was Klein who rolled a 176 traditional average for 3 games and a 18.0 baker frame average for 32 frames before sustaining a back injury that sidelined her for Sunday's final round against Medaille.