TicketsUC Women To Play In St. Croix Classic
Tournament begins Friday
Contact: Shawn Sell
3/10/2005
Hillery Wilson leads the Bearcats in average this season. |
SETTING THE SCENE: The University of Cincinnati women?s golf team will compete in its second tournament of the spring season this weekend when it travel to the St. Croix Collegiate Classic. Action from the Carambola Golf Club in St. Croix, Virgin Islands gets underway on Friday (March 11) for the first of three days of action.
PREVIEWING THE TOURNAMENT: The three-day, 54-hole St. Croix Collegiate Classic gets underway at 7:30 a.m. on Friday (March 11) with the first 18 holes of competition. The final two days of play also kick off with shotgun starts at 7:30 a.m. each day. Local rival Xavier will serve as the host school and will be joined in the field by UC, Barry, Eastern Kentucky, Marshall, Notre Dame, Texas-Pan American and Wofford. Southern Methodist won the inaugural edition of the tournament last year.
IN THE RANKINGS: The latest Golfweek rankings show the Bearcats as the 152nd ranked team in the country. Individually, six of UC?s nine players are in the rankings. The players with their rankings include: Hillery Wilson (500), Allison Mayborg (572), Alysa Few (701), Allison Couch (859), Sarah Bires (966), Mya Pronschinske (1027).
PERFECT SHOT: Freshman Allison Mayborg became the second UC women?s golfer to score a hole-in-one during final round play of the East/West Rio Verde Invitational on March 5. Mayborg fired in a shot on the 158-yard, par three sixth hole for an eagle and her first collegiate hole-in-one. Mayborg?s feat matches that of sophomore classmate Sarah Bires who pulled the trick during the Great Smokies Intercollegiate last fall. Bires got her first collegiate hole-in-one on the 11th hole of the Waynesville Country Club, firing the shot on a par-three from 145 yards. A total of 23 female players nationally have scored a hole-in-one this season, including three Conference USA players. UC is the only team with more than one recorded hole-in-one this season.
TOURNAMENT WIN: Freshman Hillery Wilson has already made a big impact on the Cincinnati women?s golf program this year, but none bigger than her performance at the Huskie Classic Oct. 3-4. In just her third tournament, Wilson earned medalist honors, finishing with a two-round score of 157 and tied with Lisa Bailey of Northern Illinois. The win was the first by a Bearcat since Allison Couch put up back-to-back victories in the Krump Kup and Bronco Invitational last spring.