KEENE, N.H. - The Daemen College women's bowling team won a pair of matches today, going 2-3 overall on the opening day of competition at the East Coast Conference Championship Tournament being held at Yankee Lanes.

The results today push Daemen's record to 16-23 on the season, exceeding their win total from last year's inaugural campaign when they went 14-31.

Tournament play started today with a three-match round robin slate.  The Wildcats dropped consecutive decisions to Felician University (823-685) and Lincoln Memorial University (865-719), before jumping into the win column with a 756-656 defeat of Roberts Wesleyan College.  The pre-elimination portion of the tournament concluded with a positional round where Daemen fell once more to Lincoln Memorial (875-764).

To open the double elimination portion of the tournament, Daemen was seeded eighth following the round robin slate.  The Wildcats swept a best-of-seven Baker format series from ninth-seeded Roberts Wesleyan in today's final match.  The win propels Daemen into the winners bracket quarterfinals against top-seeded Franklin Pierce University.

Freshman Katie Good (Hamburg, N.Y./Frontier) paced the Wildcats today with a 17.4 pin-per-frame Baker scoring average over 58 frames.  Red-shirt sophomore Kaitlyn O'Hara (Clarence Center, N.Y./Clarence) and freshman Rachel Steele (Rensselaer, N.Y./Columbia) also produced for coach David Zajac's squad today, posting scoring averages of 15.5 and 14.3 pins per frame, respectively.

Tournament play resumes at 9 a.m. Saturday.