Eight-team field selected for bowling national championship tournament

INDIANAPOLIS, Indiana  – The eight-team field competing for the 2013 National Collegiate Women’s Bowling Championship was announced Wednesday by the NCAA Women’s Bowling Committee. The seeded field includes the following teams, all selected at large:

NC WOMEN'S BOWLING CHAMPIONSHIP FIELD

1. Central Missouri
2. Maryland Eastern Shore
3. Nebraska
4. Arkansas State
5. Vanderbilt
6. Sam Houston State
7. Wisconsin-Whitewater
8. Fairleigh Dickinson

Competition begins with qualifying rounds in which each team bowls one five-person regular team game against each of the other seven teams participating in the championship for a total of seven games. Teams will be seeded for bracket play based on their win-loss record during the qualifying rounds. Teams will then compete in best-of-seven-games Baker matches in a double elimination tournament. In the Baker format, each of the five team members, in order, bowls a complete frame until a complete (10-frame) game is bowled. A Baker match tied 3½ games to 3½ games after seven games will be decided by a tiebreaker using the Modified Baker format.

UMES SEEKS THIRD STRAIGHT NCAA NATIONAL TITLE

The University of Detroit Mercy and the Detroit Sports Commission will host the championship, which will be held April 11-13 at Super Bowl Lanes in Canton, Michigan. Tickets can be purchased on www.NCAA.com prior to the championship.

Maryland-Eastern Shore won its second consecutive National Collegiate Women’s Bowling Championship in 2012 at Freeway Lanes in Wickliffe, Ohio defeating Fairleigh Dickinson in six games, winning the final game 203-176. With the victory, Maryland Eastern Shore became the first team since 2004-05 to win back-to-back national titles.

The championship finals will air on ESPNU Saturday, April 13 at 8 p.m. ET. A tape delay broadcast of the championship finals will air on ESPN Sunday, April 14 from 2 – 3:30 p.m. ET.