WEEK 9 STATS: 13 appearances, 22.49 overall frame average, .873 filled frames pct., .643 strike pct.
Leading Sacred Heart up against the nation’s elite programs, Nardiello enjoyed a super Super Bowl weekend at the prestigious Prairie View A&M Invitational. The SHU senior southpaw averaged 22.49 pins per frame while throwing 85 strikes in 134 attempts (.634) at the three-day event in Arlington, TX. Off to a slow start on Friday, Nardiello quickly picked up the pace after making a footing adjustment. She threw a clean game in a 1078-1000 baker match triumph over No. 2 McKendree, the defending national champions. The Garden State product threw six strikes in a 19-pin win over No. 8 Maryland-Eastern Shore. Nardiello remained red hot during Saturday’s traditional team rounds, accounting for a 236.0 game average that earned the senior the tournament’s MVP award. The lefty threw a 268 game to spearhead an 18-pin win over No. 17 North Carolina A&T. Nardiello also fired a 257 in a narrow setback to National No. 1 Nebraska. She converted 90.6 percent of her single-pin spare attempts en-route to an .873 filled framed percentage for the tournament.