BELLEVILLE, Ill. - The Quincy University women's bowling team closed out its fall semester schedule this past weekend with a strong showing at the Collegiate Team Match Games in Belleville, Illinois. The Tier 1 USBC event, hosted by McKendree University, featured one of the deepest fields the Hawks have seen this season, with 23 total teams, and Quincy rose to the challenge by securing an eighth-place finish.
Day one saw the Hawks hovering just outside match-play territory, ending the opening block in 10th place and needing a surge early Sunday to break into the coveted top-eight cut. Quincy delivered exactly that. Behind their most complete round of the weekend, the Hawks posted a pivotal 245 game in the final stretch of qualifying, just enough to leapfrog into eighth place and earn their way into the championship bracket for the second straight Tier 1 event.
In match play, Quincy drew top-seeded Mount Mercy and battled throughout the best-of-three series before ultimately falling 1–2, ending their bracket run earlier than hoped. Still, the weekend marked another significant step forward for the program, continuing its trend of competing with and beating several established national powers.
Individually, the Hawks saw several standout performances.
Fernanda Garcia paced Quincy with a 913 total across five games, averaging 182.6 to place 27th in the field.
Hayden Bennett followed closely behind with an 883 set (176.6), while
Lillian Fields (840, 168.0) and
Hannah Herdklotz (836, 167.2) rounded out a balanced core of scorers.
Macie Johnson contributed three games for a 144.3 average, and both
Mackinzie McPeak (192) and
Chloe Broughton (143) added one game each to the weekend's effort.
Quincy now turns its attention to the spring semester, returning to competition at the Columbia 300 Saints Invite on Friday, January 30, and Sunday, February 1, at Shrewsbury Lanes in Shrewsbury, Missouri. The Hawks look to build on consecutive top-eight Tier 1 finishes.
Individual Results
