MANHATTAN, Kan. – The Kansas State girls’s golf staff will put the ending touches on its five-event fall schedule by internet hosting the Powercat Invitational, Monday and Tuesday, on the par-72, 6,446-yard Colbert Hills Golf Club.
This is the second version of the Powercat Invitational, an occasion Ok-State received final 12 months by 20 photographs with a 54-hole rating of 4-under par 860. The Wildcats had 4 gamers within the prime 10, led by particular person winner
Carla Bernat at 8-under par 208.
“We are really looking forward to finishing up the fall season at home,” head coach
Stew Burke stated. “Colbert Hills is in incredible shape, and we are lucky to have such a great place to call our home course. We dealt with a little bit of adversity this week and have made sure that we’re prepared as best we can be for this event. I’m sure that the ladies will rise to the occasion and give our hometown fans something to cheer about come Tuesday.”
The Wildcats have completed within the prime 4 in three of their 4 occasions this season, together with a tie for second place their final trip on the OU Intercollegiate at Prairie Dunes Country Club in Hutchinson. Ok-State produced a rain-shortened 36-hole rating of 20-over par 580, ending forward of a pair of top-25 groups in Baylor and Oklahoma State.
“The plan remains the same – regardless of where we play – which is to get off to a good start, keep the momentum throughout the round and battle the tough conditions that we know we are going to face,” Burke stated. “Ultimately, it is going to be a whole team effort this week to make sure that we post three good rounds and see where it adds up come Tuesday.”
Ok-State welcomes 15 colleges to its residence course in Bethune-Cookman, Bowling Green, Bradley, Cincinnati, Incarnate Word, Lindenwood, North Dakota, North Dakota State, Northern Colorado, Northern Kentucky, Oakland, South Dakota, Southern Illinois, Tarleton State and Wichita State.
All eight members of the squad will compete within the Powercat Invitational with sophomore
Nanami Nakashima, freshman
Keen Visavapattamawan, sophomore
Kelsey Chen, freshman
Casey Kang and senior
Noa van Beek making up the scoring lineup. Juniors
Julia Ballester Barrio and
Alenka Navarro, in addition to freshman
Stalee Fields, will compete as people.
A product of Kani, Japan, Nakashima holds a 72.55 scoring common in her 4 occasions with three top-20 finishes. Her finest exhibiting of the 12 months was a tie for eleventh place on the Schooner Fall Classic at 3-under par 207. In her first collegiate occasion in final 12 months’s Powercat Invitational, Nakashima completed in second place at 1-under par 215.
Visavapattamawan, a local of Bangkok, Thailand, has seen time in each occasion throughout her rookie marketing campaign as she holds a 72.91 scoring common. She is coming off back-to-back top-20 finishes, together with a tie for thirteenth place on the OU Intercollegiate.
A switch from Georgia Southern, Chen has averaged 72.36 strokes per spherical with three top-20 showings. The Dalian, China, product tied for eighth place on the season-opening Sam Golden Invitational at 7-under par 209.
Kang, one other Chinese native from Lanzhou, is part of the scoring lineup for a third-straight occasion. She is coming off a tie for twenty fifth place on the OU Intercollegiate at 9-over par 149.
A local of Oene, Netherlands, van Beek leads the staff with a 71.73 scoring common and enters the autumn finale with two-straight top-10 showings. She had a career-best end of a tie for sixth place on the Blessings Collegiate Invitational earlier than topping that mark with a tie for fourth place on the OU Intercollegiate.
A local of Castellon, Spain, Ballester Barrio is enjoying in her second-straight occasion after tying for thirty seventh on the OU Intercollegiate. Navarro, a product of Mexico City, is competing for the primary time because the season-opening Sam Golden Invitational when she tied for 61st place at 5-over par 221. Fields, who hails from Fort Worth, Texas, is seeing motion in her fourth occasion this season. Her finest end was a tie for twenty eighth place on the Schooner Fall Classic with a rating of 1-over par 211.
The Powercat Invitational will get underway on Monday with a shotgun begin to the primary 36 holes of play starting at 8:15 a.m. Ok-State’s scoring lineup will start on Nos. 1-3, and the Wildcats will likely be paired with Bowling Green, Cincinnati and Wichita State within the first two rounds. Another 8:15 a.m. shotgun begin will start play for the ultimate spherical on Tuesday, and pairings will likely be based mostly on outcomes from the primary two rounds.
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