COLUMBUS, Ohio -- The women's bowling squad at Shawnee State put together another strong effort -- particularly from its junior varsity bowlers -- at the first Ohio Bowling Conference event of the 2025-26 season as Bailey Mitchell won the Ohio Bowling Conference's Individual Championship from a junior varsity standpoint and finished 14th overall while Jackie Aubry finished third among all JV bowlers and 21st overall to lead Shawnee State's overall efforts in Columbus on Saturday.

Mitchell, who knocked down 530 pins to post a three-game average of 176.67 pins, dropped 182 and 212 pins in Games 2 and 3, respectively -- while Aubry amassed 182 and 174 pins in Games 1 and 3 en route to 505 pins and a 168.33-pin average.

Shawnee State was the only school among the nine junior varsity squads in the field to put two junior varsity bowlers inside the top-25 of the overall finishing order. Mitchell was the only JV bowler to finish inside the top-15 overall while Aubry joined Northwestern Ohio's Mackenzie Miller and Ohio State's Lindsay Holliday as the lone additional junior varsity bowlers to finish in the overall top-25 of the 128 bowlers who participated from an individual standpoint.

Onesti Evans, who led all members of the Shawnee State varsity bowling squad with her finish, posted a 23rd place showing after dropping 500 pins on the nose, while fellow sophomore Maria Mara made it four Bears in the top-30 overall, finishing 28th by dropping 491 tallies. True freshman Kaylee Randolph's 485 pins put Randolph 32nd overall on the leaderboard.

Morgan Higgins (45th), Coryn Darling (54th), Cali Baird (59th), Hannah Chandler (73rd) and McKenna Roades (82nd) rounded out the lineup for Shawnee State.

From a team standpoint, the Shawnee State women's bowling squad dropped 4,321 pins to finish seventh while the Shawnee State junior varsity squad, who knocked down 3,917 pins, edged Mount Vernon Nazarene's junior varsity squad by 54 pins for the junior varsity title. In Baker games, Shawnee State dropped the most pins in Game 8 (194) and tied for the most pins dropped in Game 4 (142).

Members of the championship winning junior varsity squad include Jackie Aubry, Cali Baird, Hannah Chandler, Bailey Mitchell and McKenna Roades.