JEKYLL ISLAND, Ga. - The University of the South women's golf team posted its second-best finish at the Jekyll Island Collegiate with a third place score of 910 as the program fired its second sub-300 score in program history. The event took place at Indian Mound.
INSIDE THE TOURNAMENT
Sewanee Women's Golf: Finished 3rd of 24 (910)
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TOURNAMENT LEADERBOARD
| 1. |
No. 2/2 Redlands (Calif.) |
901 |
| 2. |
No. 10/10 Pomona-Pitzer (Calif.) |
906 |
| 3. |
Sewanee (Tenn.) |
910 |
| 4. |
No. 4/3 Washington (Mo.) |
919 |
|
No. 5/5 Carnegie Mellon (Pa.) |
919 |
| 6. |
No. 17/17 Centre (Ky.) |
923 |
| 7. |
No. 8/8 Claremont-Mudd-Scripps (Calif.) |
927 |
| 8. |
No. 9/9 Methodist (N.C.) |
932 |
| 9. |
No. 6/7 Washington and Lee (Va.) |
935 |
| 10. |
No. 13/15 Denison (Ohio) |
945 |
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No. 19/19 New York University |
945 |
| 12. |
Rhodes (Tenn.) |
946 |
| 13. |
No. 23/21 Oglethorpe (Ga.) |
962 |
| 14. |
No. 21/22 Christopher Newport (Va.) |
966 |
| 15. |
Lynchburg (Va.) |
968 |
| 16. |
No. 18/16 Mary Hardin-Baylor (Texas) |
973 |
| 17. |
Berry (Ga.) |
975 |
| 18. |
Southwestern (Texas) |
984 |
| 19. |
Transylvania (Ky.) |
993 |
| 20. |
Huntingdon (Ala.) |
1,001 |
| 21. |
Piedmont (Ala.) |
1,003 |
| 22. |
Bridgewater (Va.) |
1,020 |
| 23. |
DePauw (Ind.) |
1,041 |
| 24. |
Randolph-Macon (Va.) |
1,151 |
Rankings are from the Women's Golf Coaches Association (WGCA) Coaches Poll; Second Set of Rankings are the Top-25 GolfStat Rankings for Division III
INDIVIDUAL RESULTS
-Four Tigers finished in the top-25, and all five finished in the top-30.
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Sabrina Nesbitt (75-75-78) and
E.C. Niebauer (77-72-79) each scored a 228 to take 14th place in the field. S. Nesbitt posted a 3.08 average on par 3s and a 4.23 scoring on par 4s. Additionally, she totaled seven birdies for seventh-best in the field.
-Niebauer was fifth-best in the field with a 4.10 average on par 4s, and her eight birdies were fourth-best.
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Nicole Nesbitt finished 18th overall with a three-round score of 229 (76-73-80).
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Merrick Semans recorded a 25th-place score of 231 (75-75-81), while Mary Browder Howell rounded out the scoring with a 31st-place score of 234 (75-82-77).
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Rylan Kennedy carded a 10th place score of 254 (82-87-85) in the individual invitational.
TEAM LEADERBOARD
-Sewanee secured its second-lowest score in program history with a 54-hole score of 910 (310-295-314). The team's best score of 902 came at the 2016 Jekyll Island event, when Sewanee won the tournament.
-Additionally, Sewanee's 295 in the second round is the lowest score for the program since the inception of the team in 1995.
-Redlands (901) won the team event by five strokes. Sewanee was back by nine strokes.
UP NEXT
Sewanee is back in action on April 3-4 with teh Max and Susan Stith Invitational from Glen Allen, Va.
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