The Fairleigh Dickinson University women's bowling team will begin competition on Thursday, April 12 at the 2007 National Championships.

The Knights, who took home the title last year after defeating Alabama A&M in the finals in Houston, TX, will compete in an eight-team field that includes University of Central Missouri, University of Maryland-Eastern Shore, Minnesota State University- Mankato, University of Nebraska- Lincoln, New Jersey City University, Sacred Heart University and Vanderbilt University.

The qualifying round, which determines a team's seed based on total pinfall, will have each team bowling four five-person

regular team games and four five-game Baker matches using total pinfall to determine the winner. The fourth Baker set will

serve as the position round. The pinfall from the position round will serve as the tiebreaker. The Baker format allows

five team members to follow each other in order, each bowling a complete frame until a complete (10-frame) game is bowled.

Based on the qualifying round, teams are placed in a double-elimination bracket. Teams compete against each other in a

best-of seven Baker-style bowling competition. Ties within a Baker game will be decided by a ninth and 10th frame roll-off.

Once bracket play has commenced, the higher seed gets starting lane choice for the final game of the match if it is an odd number AND/OR if there is a tie-breaker game that must be played.