TicketsUC Women To Open Spring Golf Season
Bearcats travel to Arizona this week
Contact: Shawn Sell
3/2/2005
Hillery Wilson led the women's golf team in average during the fall season. |
SETTING THE SCENE: The University of Cincinnati women?s golf team opens the spring portion of its 2004-05 schedule this week when they travel to Rio Verde, Ariz. to compete in the East/West Rio Verde Collegiate Invitational. Action from the Rio Verde Country Club begins on Thursday (March 3) at 1 p.m. and continues for each of the next two days.
PREVIEWING THE TOURNAMENT: The third annual East/West Rio Verde Collegiate Invitational will be played over three days at the White Wing Course of the Rio Verde Country Club. Action gets underway at 1 p.m. each day beginning on Thursday, March 3. This marks the first time in tournament history that the event will be utilize the 54-hole format. Joining Cincinnati in the tournament field will be Arkansas-Little Rock, Bowling Green, Bradley, Eastern Michigan, Illinois, Iowa, Marshall, Michigan, Minnesota, Montana State, North Texas, Ohio, SW Missouri State, Southern Illinois, Toledo and Western Michigan and Xavier. Kent State is the defending champion of the event, but will not compete this year.
SCHEDULE CHANGE: A couple of adjustments have been made to the Bearcats? 2005 schedule, including the addition of a home tournament. UC will not compete in the Krump Kup as previously scheduled, but have added the two-day UC/UD Golf Invitational on April 4-5. The event will be held in cooperation with the University of Dayton and will see the first 18 holes played at Clovernook Country Club in Cincinnati and the final round played at Yankee Trace Country Club in Dayton.
IN THE RANKINGS: The latest Golfweek rankings show the Bearcats as the 156th ranked team in the country. Individually, seven of UC?s nine players are in the rankings. The players with their rankings include: Hillery Wilson (482), Alysa Few (665), Allison Mayborg (686), Allison Couch (953), Sarah Bires (1010), Mya Pronschinske (1148), Emily Elliott (1181).
PERFECT SHOT: Sophomore Sarah Bires had a golfer?s dream during the first round of the Great Smokies Intercollegiate on Oct. 18 when she carded the first hole-in-one of her collegiate career. On the 11th hole of the Waynesville Country Club, Bires fired the shot on a par-three from 145 yards. Her hole in one is one of 17 in the nation this season by a women?s player and the second by a Conference USA player.