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The Winona State University women’s golf team shot a 338 in its second round of play to claim sixth place as a team on April 6 at the Upper Iowa Invitational in Columbus, Neb.
After their first round of play, the Warriors found themselves sitting in seventh place as a team after shooting a 365, but were able to improve their overall standing to sixth after four of the five team members bettered their first round play totals.
Marissa Geyer led Winona State with a two-round total of 172. She totaled 90 strokes during the opening round and finished her meet with an 82. Geyer tied for 17th place individually with Andrea Dwyer of Concordia University, St. Paul.
Katya Hoffman finished one stroke back from Geyer with a combined total of 173 to crack the top 20.
After shooting a 95 during round one and 78 after round two, she tied for 19th place overall with Katie O’Loughlin of Upper Iowa University.
Courtney Hagen and Kelly Blegen tied for 27th place, each with combined totals of 179.
In Hagen’s opening round, she shot an 89 followed by a 90 on her second day.
Kelly Blegen opened with a 91 and concluded her invitational with 88 shots.
Katie Blegen finished her meet 38th overall after shooting a 97 on day one and a 90 on day two to shoot a combined 187.
Augustana College won the invitational with a total of 319. Minnesota State University-Mankato was second (334), Concordia University, St. Paul was third (340), St. Cloud State University was fourth (352), host school Upper Iowa University was fifth (350), Winona State University was sixth (365), University of Central Missouri was seventh (361), Minot State University was eighth (386) and the University of Minnesota Crookston was ninth (405).
Kanyapak Sethasompobe of Minnesota State University-Mankato claimed the individual title with a total of 155 (80-75). Allie Ostrander of Augustana (81-76) and Dani Selberg of Minnesota State-Mankato (79-78) tied for second place, each with a total of 157. Marissa Toivonen of Augustana was fourth with a total of 160 (80-80) and teammate Maggie Leland rounded out the top five with a total of 161 shots (79-82).
On Saturday, April 12, the Warriors began play in the opening round of the Augustana Invitational in Sioux Falls, S.D.
Hoffman led the way for Winona State, after shooting an 81 during her first round to put her in 19th place overall.
Geyer tied for 28th place after shooting an 83 and Katie Blegen was one stroke back with an 84.
Hagen opened her invitational play by shooting an 89.
Kelly Blegen and Jessica Reagan round out the Warrior lineup with first rounds of 92 and 95, respectively.
Due to weather, the final round of the invitational was called off.
The Warriors finished in eighth place as a team with their day one total of 337 strokes.
Host school Augustana won the team championship with a total of 302 shots. Concordia University, St. Paul was second (305), Minnesota State-Mankato was third (310), Sioux Falls was fourth (313), St. Cloud State and Southwest Minnesota State tied for fifth (331), Nebraska-Kearney was seventh (335), Winona State was eighth (337), Minot State was ninth (353), Minnesota Crookston was tenth (384) and South Dakota School of Mines finished in 11th with a total of 389 shots.
Augustana’s Ostrander won the individual title with 69 total shots and her teammate, Leland was second with a 71. Rachel Gray of Concordia-St. Paul rounded out the top three with a 72.
The women’s golf team will have the upcoming weekend off to prepare for the final two rounds of the NSIC Championships on April 26-27 in Morton, Minn.
