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Melanie Hannon

  • Award
    NEC Bowler of the Week
  • Week Of
    3/23/2016
  • Sport
    Women's Bowling
  • School
    FDU
  • Year
    Junior
  • Position
    Right
  • Hometown
    Cheektowaga, NY
  • High School
    Maryvale
Hannon's consistent play spearheaded Fairleigh Dickinson's 10-5 showing at Vanderbilt's Music City Classic. Similarly effective during both the baker and traditional portions of the three-day meet, the Empire State product accounted for a 19.94 overall frame average. Hannon filled frames at an 85 percent rate while logging a team-high 86 strikes in 194 attempts (.443). The veteran right-hander has posted a strike percentage in excess of 44 percent during each of the past seven tournaments that FDU has contested. Hannon encountered a team-high 17 splits over the weekend, successfully sparing only one of them, but the Western New Yorker had little difficulty with her makeable spares. She posted a team-high .909 non-split spare percentage. Hannon also led the Knights in traditional game average (199.2) during Saturday's traditional team rounds. She exceeded the 200-pin mark in four consecutive matches, including a 201 game in a triumph over No. 11 UMES and a 238 score that helped the Knights past nationally-ranked Garden State rival Monmouth. Hannon accumulated the highest baker pinfall of any Knight, helping the team to key victories over No. 6 Central Missouri and No. 8 North Carolina A&T. Over the course of nine matches, she averaged 19.96 pins per baker frame.