UW-Eau Claire Leads Women’s Golf Championship
WISCONSIN RAPIDS, Wis.--Two-time defending champion, University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire, leads the 2011 Wisconsin Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (WIAC) Women’s Golf Championship following the first of three days of competition at Bull’s Eye Country Club.
The Blugolds compiled 328 strokes to surpass UW-Stevens Point’s second-place sum of 347 strokes. UW-Whitewater is third with 356 strokes, UW-Platteville fourth with 359, UW-Stout fifth with 360, UW-River Falls sixth with 369 and UW-Oshkosh seventh with 376.
Individually, UW-Stevens Point’s Mary Welch tops the 54-player field with 79 strokes. UW-Eau Claire’s Catherine Wagner is second with 80 strokes, while UW-Whitewater’s Nicole Wescott and UW-Eau Claire’s Sara Mattes, the defending WIAC medalist, are tied for third with 81. UW-Eau Claire’s Emily Swift, Kate Engler and Maggie Lattery are fifth, sixth and seventh, respectively, with scores of 83, 84 and 85. UW-Whitewater’s Megan Ramp is tied with Lattery for seventh. UW-Platteville’s Kelsey Lieving and UW-Stevens Point’s McKenna Prestigiacomo are tied for ninth with 86.
The 54-hole event will continue October 8 with tee times beginning at 10 a.m.
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