The Chestnut Hill College Women's bowling team won a pair of matches in the second day of the James Brown Invitational, hosted by Morgan State University and held at the AMF Towson Lanes in Towson, Maryland.

The Griffins went 2-3 on the day with all matches being played in the traditional format.  Chestnut Hill faced two nationally ranked Division I teams along with a third D-I program as well as two non-division I schools.

Maddie Gannon (Glenolden, Pa.)  was the Griffins lead bowler on the day, averaging 201.8 in her five matches and ranking 14^th among 74 bowlers.  Gannon was also the top bowler among all non-division I schools
 
The opening match of the day was against Mount Aloysius College.  Three Griffins bowled 150 or better as the team earned a 754-746 win.  Gannon led the team with a 166 while Jess Hollabaugh (Folsom, Pa.)  bowled a 162.  Chase Clifford (Philadelphia, Pa.) bowled a career high 152 in the match.

Nationally ranked Maryland-Eastern Shore (#16) was the Griffins next opponent, handing Chestnut Hill a 1-61-870 defeat.  Hollabaugh led the team with a score of 212 while Gannon bowled the first of her three '200' games with a score of 200.  Hope Widmer (East Stroudsburg, Pa.) bowled 191.

The Griffins set a new team-high for the season in match #3, defeating Fayetteville State University 955-913.  Gannon, Eryn Moore (Bainbridge, Pa.), and Widmer all broke the 200-mark bowling 224, 214 and 207 respectively.  Hollabaugh added a score of 191.

Coppin State University defeated Chestnut Hill in match #4, 920-828.  Hollabaugh and Gannon led the team with identical scores of 192.
Gannon bowled her high match of the day in the Griffins final match of the afternoon, rolling a 227 as the Griffins fell to #11 Duquesne University 1105-888.  Moore added a score of 209.

The Griffins finished the day with a cumulative score of 4,199 and a two-day total of 8,470, finishing in 13^th place out of 14 schools.  The team will be back in action at the James Brown Invitational for the brackets finals of the best of seven bakers Sunday morning.