Bowling: The bowling team finished second out of 13 teams at the 2017 James Brown Invitational at over the weekend at Towson Lanes in Towson, MD. Senior Kaitlyn Reth claimed the individual title with games of 204, 228, 248, 180, and 201 over the five-game span, leading to an average score of 212.2. Junior Jackie Evans and sophomore Haley Solberg also finished in the top ten. Evans finished seventh with a 197.4 average while Solberg finished eighth with an average of 196.8. Reth and Evans both earned their fifth top-10 finishes of the season and junior Julie Bianco led MU with a 254 high game in traditional match play. The Hawks went 9-3 as a team during the three-day event. The blue and white return to the lanes on Friday, March 3 when they host the Hawk Flight Invite at King Pin Lanes in Egg Harbor Township. The tournament takes place through Sunday.
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