After day one of the AMCC Bowling Championship, #1 Saint Vincent College and #2 William Smith College remain undefeated heading into day two of competition tomorrow morning.
#3 Alvernia started off the morning with a quick victory over #6 Pitt-Bradford in Match 1. Freshman Mia Siminitus led the Golden Wolves in the traditional team format with a 212, as Alvernia defeated Pitt-Bradford 870-783. In the 5 Game Baker series, Alvernia topped Pitt-Bradford 845-793 to advance to the second round of the championship on Friday afternoon.
In Match 2 of the morning session, #4 Penn State Behrend and #5 New Jersey City University took their match down to the wire, with NJCU narrowly escaping with the victory. Behrend started out the traditional team format with an 858-751 victory, led by senior Bella Pilyih with a 215. However, New Jersey City came storming back in Baker play, defeating the Lions 808-763 in the 5 Game Baker series. The mega match then went to the Baker best-of-7 series, as the Gothic Knights needed all seven games to walk away with the 4-3 victory and advance to the second round of the tournament.
In Match 3, Saint Vincent defeated New Jersey City to advance in the winners bracket. The Bearcats defeated the Gothic Knights 925-755 in the traditional format, with Daphne Stuber leading the way for Saint Vincent with a 230. Saint Vincent then went 2-0 in the mega match by earning the 923-836 victory in the Baker 5 Game series.
Alvernia started out strong in Match 4, as they defeated William Smith in the traditional team format by the score of 998-840. Morgan Dupont rolled a 235 for the Golden Wolves and Reghan Smith added a 213. However, William Smith came storming back in the Baker 5 Game series, getting a big 1003-795 win to even the series at 1-1. William Smith took the first two games in the Best-of-7 Baker series, but Alvernia came right back with the next two games to tie it up. Alvernia won the next game 189-166 before William Smith tied it up at three-all with a 161-136 victory, forcing a seventh game. It was William Smith who prevailed 174-126 to win the Best-of-7 series and claim victory in Match 4 of the championship tournament.
Competition resumes at 9:30 Saturday morning, with #1 Saint Vincent taking on #2 William Smith in the winners bracket, and #3 Alvernia squaring off with #5 New Jersey City in the losers bracket.