Lincoln, NE- Women's Bowling traveled to nearby Lincoln, Nebraska over the weekend for the last NCAA regular season event at the Big Red Invite. The Jets would get off to a slow start with a match 1 loss to Lincoln Memorial but would rally with 4 straight wins to end the day. Those wins came over Valpo, Quincy, #7 Youngstown State and #20 Wisconsin Whitewater to end day 1 4-1 and would be in 4^th place in total pins.

The Jets began day 2 with another victory over Upper Iowa. They would then go up against #3 Nebraska and while the match was close the entire way,  the Cornhuskers would prevail 1063-1013.

Match 3 would be a matchup against #17 Central Missouri the Jets would fly by the Jennies with their best score of the season, 1185-929. NU then faced #4 Arkansas State and would fall 1123-1049. Newman would finish the day with a match 5 win and go 3-2 and 7-3 headed in to Sunday match play.

The Jets would average 215 on the day and be led by Freshman Kassidy Miller who averaged 229 and finished in 4^th individually and would be selected to the All-Tournament Team and Allison Szewczyk who finished in 8^th averaging 223.8. 


Newman headed into Sunday in 3^rd place in total pins and would draw Central Missouri again for their first match on Sunday. The best of 7 match would go back and forth and would need a game 7 to determine the victory. NU would again finish strong winning game 7, 213-158.  The win set up the position round match with Wisconsin Whitewater. The Jets would come out fast and win the first 3 games but Whitewater would fight back to win the next two and make the match 3-2 in the best of 7.

Newman would have another close one in game six but squeak out a 203-197 game six to take the final match and finish in 3^rd place.

The Jets would finish 9-3 on the weekend and finish the regular season and their first NCAA regular season 68-32  Newman heads to the USBC sectionals this weekend and then the GLVC conference championship March 23rd-26th.