BALTIMORE, Md. (Feb. 16, 2013) - Following day two the Saint Francis U bowling team sits seventh out of 25 teams at the James Brown Invitational heading into Sunday's championship bracket round of action.

Saint Francis showed consistency in its five matches, with scores over 900 in all five of its matches. The Red Flash won in their matches against Fayetteville State, Cheyney and Elmhurst, and lost hard fought matches against two top-five teams in Arkansas State (No. 4 in the nation) and Nebraska (No. 3 in the nation). SFU is 7-3 against top-10 teams since the winter break, and 2-2 against top ten teams in the Midwest Region.

Shelby Derr (Sunbury, Pa./Shikellamy) and Christina Leid (Ephrata, Pa./Ephrata) paced the Red Flash, averaging 212.6 & 202.4, respectively. Sarah Ross (Crescent, Pa./Moon Area) entered play in game four and averaged 203.5 for two games.

"We saw Shelby and Christina get comfortable playing a great strike line and they repeated good shots all day," head coach Tom Falbo said. "Sarah had another good outing. As a team we struggled with pin carry in key scoring opportunities, and tomorrow we work hard to improve in that area."

Match scores for the day finished as follows:

SFU 933

No. 4 Arkansas State 989

SFU 980

Fayetteville State 852

SFU 905

Cheyney University 752

SFU 961

No. 3 Nebraska 1,080

SFU 933

Elmhurst 873

Saint Francis faces Sacred Heart Sunday in the first round of championship match play, which is based on the best-of-7 baker format.