NASHVILLE, Tenn. \u2014 The third-ranked Vanderbilt bowling team hits the road for the second weekend in a row when the Commodores head to Orlando, Florida, to compete at Sacred Heart\u2019s Destination Orlando.<\/p>\n
This is the third consecutive year that Vandy has attended this event. The Commodores notched top 5 finishes in 2023 and 2024.<\/p>\n
The Dores opened their season at the Chelsea Gilliam Penguin Classic, earning a fifth-place finish. Vandy earned the No. 3 seed heading into bracket play, defeating four ranked opponents, including defending NCAA champion Youngstown State, during qualifying. Freshman Katelyn Abigania notched a top 10 individual finish in her collegiate debut, and junior Dannielle Henderson earned an 11th-place finish in her first event as a Commodore. During bracket play, Vanderbilt fell to No. 6 Arkansas State and Youngstown State but defeated No. 11 Sacred Heart to finish fifth.<\/p>\n
Looking to the weekend, nine of the nation\u2019s top 10 teams will compete at Destination Orlando. The full list of competing teams includes Alabama A&M, RV Alabama State, Arkansas State, Bryant, No. 12 Duquesne, RV Emmanuel, Florida A&M, No. 1 Jacksonville State, No. 9 Louisiana Tech, No. 16 Maryland-Eastern Shore, No. 10 Maryville, No. 14 Mount Saint Mary\u2019s, No. 7 North Carolina A&T, No. 2 Nebraska, Prairie View A&M, Sacred Heart, Saint Anselm, Texas Southern, Tulane, No. 18 UAB, Valparaiso, Vanderbilt, No. 5 Wichita State and No. 4 Youngstown State.<\/p>\n
Tournament Schedule
Friday \u2013 five sets of five Baker matches beginning at 8:25 a.m. CT
Saturday \u2013 five traditional games beginning at 7:25 a.m.
Sunday \u2013 three best-of-seven Baker matches beginning at 7:25 a.m.<\/p>\n
Keeping up with the Commodores
Fans can watch the Dores\u2019 matches live on YouTube<\/a> and Facebook<\/a> and follow Vanderbilt bowling on X and Instagram at @VandyBowling for updates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NASHVILLE, Tenn. \u2014 The third-ranked Vanderbilt bowling team hits the road for the second weekend in a row…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":18330,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[15234,15221,15224,15223,15222,15225,13769,139,141,140,15233,15230,10254,15231,15232,15226,15218,15219,15220,15229,15228,15227],"class_list":["post-18329","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-orlando","tag-bowling","tag-commodores","tag-commodores-baseball","tag-commodores-basketball","tag-commodores-football","tag-commodores-soccer","tag-headlines","tag-orlando","tag-orlando-headlines","tag-orlando-news","tag-sport-category-featured-category","tag-vanderbilt-athletics","tag-vanderbilt-commodores","tag-vanderbilt-commodores-baseball-roster","tag-vanderbilt-commodores-football-roster","tag-vanderbilt-stadium","tag-vanderbilt-university","tag-vanderbilt-university-athletics","tag-vuc","tag-vuc-baseball","tag-vuc-basketball","tag-vuc-football"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18329","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18329"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18329\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18330"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}