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Bowling Set to Roll In Wildcat Invitational

This weekend the Alabama State Lady Hornets bowling team will compete in the fourth annual Wildcat Invitational at the Sunshine Bowling Lanes in DeLand, Fla.Ā  The three day event will begin Friday, February 6 with the first roll coming at 10 a.m.Ā  The invite will close out on Sunday, February 8.

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The invitational will feature five visiting teams to the Sunshine State capping off the six-team event will be one NTCA Top 20 team (Tulane), Florida A&M, UAB, Southern, Alabama State and the host Bethune-Cookman will close out the field.

Prior to Friday's action, the Wildcats will honor four seniors with a special Senior Day celebration.Ā  Afterwards the games will begin with 5x4 Baker games.Ā  In the Baker format, starting members of the competing teams will successively and, in regular order, bowl one frame on one lane. Once five frames are completed, the team members will remain on the same lane and complete the starting member order again, with frames six through 10 being completed. This pattern of play will continue until all 10 frames of a game are completed. No changes can be made in the order of players after the start of a game, except for substitutes, although once a bowler has been pulled from the game they are not allowed to return until the next game.

The teams will then square off on Saturday at 10 a.m., with five traditional games.Ā  In the five-person team game, starting members of the competing teams will successively and, in regular order, bowl one frame on one lane. Once completed, the team members shall move to the alternate lane of the competition pair. This pattern of play continues until all 10 frames of a game are complete. The same substitution rules as Baker will apply.

The invitational concludes Sunday with a tournament beginning at 9:30 a.m. The tournament, consisting of Best 4-of-7 Baker matches, will determine the champion. The six teams will be seeded based on the performance on Friday and Saturday.

A live web stream of all matches taking place on lanes 23-24 and 25-26 will be provided by the CatEye Network via UStream. The stream can be found on bamastate.com game day central webpage.

Updates can also be found on BCUathletics.comĀ as the results are turned in.Ā 
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