READING, Pa. – Despite an 0-5 performance in its dual matches, the Felician College women's bowling team placed seventh out of 16 schools in total pinfall at the Kutztown University Fall Baker Invitational on Saturday at Berks Lanes. Felician was participating in the first tournament in the history of its program.
In a Baker game, each school's line-up of five players bowls a single game. The leadoff player bowls the 1st and 6th frames, the No. 2 person shoots the 2nd and 7th frames, etc. Saturday's event called for sets of five Baker games against each of five opponents. The Golden Falcons felled 4,064 pins on the day, good for an average of 162.6.
The first match in school history came against local rival Saint Peter's College. Felician's five-game total of 751 fell short of the Peahens' score of 775. The day's heartbreaker followed, as the Golden Falcons lost to Cheyney University, 861-860.
Later on Saturday, Felician fell to Adelphi University, 922-887; LIU Brooklyn, 891-732; and the host Golden Bears, 884-834.
Of the six teams to finish ahead of Felician in the overall standings, five of them went 5-0 in duals. Kutztown (5-0) was immediately ahead of the Golden Falcons in sixth place (4,340, 173.6 average), and they edged eighth-place Franklin Pierce University (2-3) by 29 pins (4,033, 161.3)
Adelphi (5-0) easily won the tournament with 4,740 pins (189.6). The Panthers were the only school to shoot more than 1,000 for a five-game Baker set, downing Mount Aloysius College, 1,022-803 in the second game. Adelphi finished 176 pins ahead of runner-up LIU-Brooklyn.
Felician remains in Reading on Sunday for the Kutztown Fall Team Tournament, during which each five-player line-up will bowl a traditional game against each of five opponents. The first team match in Golden Falcon history comes at 9 a.m., when they face Pennsylvania State-Altoona.
