Southwestern Athletic Conference Bowler of the year Danielle Walker and the Lady Hornets were eliminated in the SWAC Championship by Texas Southern at the Bowling International Training & Research Center in Arlington, Texas.
 
Alabama State, who was the third seed after Fridays qualifying rounds, faced sixth seed Southern in the first round and defeated them 4-3. The match started off in the Hornets favor winning the first three games before the Lady Tigers took game four 160-142. In the fifth and sixth game the Lady Hornets struggled to pick up key pins and the Tigers tied the match up at three. Alabama State took game seven 180-155 to advance and face the number two seed Prairie View A&M.
 
Facing the number two Prairie View A&M in their second match of the day, the Panther won the first three games 205-202, 210-209 and 199-1443. The Lady Hornets stung back taking games four and five 226-188 and 175-171. Alabama State started off the sixth game strong but couldn't hold on as Prairie View A&M won 206-151 and took the round 4-2, moving the Hornets in to the losers' bracket.
 
"We were too comfortable and relaxed against Southern. They bowled much better than yesterday and it showed with the match going seven games," said Head Coach Andrew Chatmon. "Prairie View A&M is a great team, they really showed up to bowl. We had several games won, but in the last two to three frames they pulled it out by throwing straight strikes and we couldn't do anything about it. "
 
Alabama State went head to head with defending champs Alabama A&M in the third round. The Lady Hornets took game one and two 170-168 and 224-167 but the Bulldogs made it known that it wasn't going to be easy as they took game three 204-168.  ASU came back to take game four 197-172, with the match in their favor 3-1 Alabama State looked for a strong finish closing out with a 166-157 win. This was an assurance that that the Lady Hornets were still alive with the 4-1 match win.
 
Still facing elimination The Lady Hornets took on the Tigers of Texas Southern for their final game of the day. The Tigers took an early 2-0 lead by winning the first two games 188-174 and 186-182. In game three the Lady Hornets showed that they weren't going down without a fight by winning the game 200-171. Texas Southern bounced back in game four winning 195-148, but the ASU took game five 193-171 to make it a 3-2 match. In game six the teams were close for the first three frames until a strike by the Lady Hornets helped them pull away due too miscues by the Tigers, they won 179-160, forcing a game seven.  The seventh game saw the Tigers really applying pressure to the Hornets by hitting a series of strikes to win the game 216-176. This would give the Tigers the match point eliminating the Lady Hornets.   
 
 
"I am extremely proud of the girls today they fought hard when things began to look bad, but they still made plays when they needed to," stated Chatmon in closing. "It's hard going out like this with what we accomplished last year but now we can go back and see what we need to work on."
 
This is the second straight season the Lady Hornets have finished above .500. Coach Chatmon also earned his 200th and 250th wins this season.