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It Was a Good Day to be a Knight.

FDU is returning to familiar territory, headed to the NCAA Women's Bowling Final Four for the ninth time in program history after defeating longtime rival and second-seeded Nebraska, 2-0, in a Mega Match to capture the Rochester Regional.

Mount St. Mary’s had it it's Cinderella run at the Erie Regional come up just short, with a 4-2 setback in a best-of-seven winner-take-all match with No. 1 McKendree in the final.

Remaining unbeaten on the weekend, the Knights won the traditional portion of the Mega Match against Nebraska by 58 pins, 1,054-966.

The Knights started Quint Baker with a 203-194 win, but the Cornhuskers pushed back in the second, with a 206-202 victory, to close within five pins. The Knights stretched the lead to 16 after the third match, winning 177-166, before racking up a 237-200 win in the fourth to make its advantage 53 pins. FDU didn’t give Nebraska any room in the final match, winning 188-185 to earn the regional title.

The Knights are hunting for their third national championship after winning the crown in 2006 and 2012. FDU finished as runner-up at the 2012 championship.

The 2022 NCAA Championship is April 15-16 at Wayne Webb’s Columbus Bowl. The championship will be streamed live on NCAA.com.

Along with McKendree, FDU will be joined at the Final Four by Stephen F. Austin and Vanderbilt.

The Mount needed three wins on Saturday, and got two of them, before falling to McKendree.

In Saturday morning's elimination match, Medaille struck first with a 859-828 victory in the traditional leg. The Mountaineers led start-to-finish in the Quint Baker leg - their first must win of the day - pulling even in the Mega Match with the 1,005-943 victory.

In the best-of-seven, winner-take-all leg of the Mega Match, the Mount used a program record 289 in the second match on its way to a 4-0 sweep. The win advanced Mount to face top-seeded McKendree in a championship Mega Match, needing a win to stay alive in the region.

McKendree built a 12-pin, 427-415, lead midway through the traditional portion, before a Mount rally. The Mountaineers stormed back in the final five frames with a 51-pin swing to pull away for a 915-886 victory and the first point. Once again Mount led wire-to-wire in Quint Bakers, winning the point and the Mega Match 2-0.

That victory forced a winner-take-all best-of-seven match between the two squads. Mount earned the win in the first match, 170-163. McKendree won the second to square the match, 1-1. The Mount went in front 2-1 with a 190-175 victory in the third, but again the Bearcats responded, drawing even with a 201-171 victory in the fourth. McKendree won matches five and six to secure the 4-2 win and the regional crown.

The three NEC teams in the NCAA Tournament, FDU, Mount and Sacred Heart, posted a 6-4 record in regional play over the course of the weekend.