Griz end ninth at last fall match

The Montana girls’s golf staff wrapped up its fall season with a ninth-place displaying on Tuesday on the French Broad Collegiate Invitational in Arden, N.C.

The match, held at The Cliffs at Walnut Cove, was scheduled to be 54 holes however was reduce to 36 when rain pressured the suspension of play on Monday earlier than groups had performed even 9 holes.

Round 1 was accomplished on Tuesday morning, adopted by Round 2, all of it performed in chilly, damp circumstances on a soggy course.

Montana shot rounds of 328 and 326 to complete ninth out of 10 groups. Of the sector’s 20 staff scores over the 2 rounds, there have been twice as many scores of 320 or larger (9) than sub-300 (4).

Clemson (290-288) and UNC Charlotte (298-298) had been the lone groups to shoot sub-300 rounds. Host UNC Asheville (304-304) completed third.

“It rained over two inches yesterday, so it was pretty rough out there,” stated coach Jimmy Mee. “Today it was chilly and the course was nonetheless soaking moist, so it performed actually lengthy. That was the difficult half.

“It’s hard to get excited when you know it’s going to be miserable and cold and nasty. Everybody had moments of battling through it. It’s just hard to do for hours on end.”

Griz underclassmen Katie Lewis (79-80) and Bella Johnson (79-80) each tied for twenty fifth within the 52-golfer discipline.

“They got back to acting like themselves on the golf course,” stated Mee. “It was fun to see them get back into the normal charisma they have.”

Raina Ports (86-77) tied for thirty sixth, Hannah Ports (85-89) tied for forty seventh, Kate Bogenschutz (85-90) completed forty ninth.

UNC Charlotte’s Pinky Chaisliprungruang (70-69) and Clemson’s Isabella Rawl (71-71) each completed underneath par on the par-72 course. UNCC’s Emma Heyman (69-77) was third.

“You hope for it to be 75 and sunny with no wind,” stated Mee. “It was still a really cool experience despite what Mother Nature had planned. The host families we stayed with were awesome.”

Montana will not be again in competitors till the Bowling Green Intercollegiate in Litchfield Park, Ariz., in mid-February.