TicketsUC Preps For Lady Herd/El Diablo Intercollegiate
Tournament set for March 21-22
Contact: Shawn Sell
3/17/2005
Hillery Wilson tied for 24th at last week's St. Croix Collegiate Classic. |
SETTING THE SCENE: The University of Cincinnati women?s golf team continues its spring season when it travels to Citrus Springs, Fla. for next week?s Lady Herd/El Diablo Intercollegiate. The two-day 54-hole event is set to begin on Monday (March 21) with a 7:30 a.m. shotgun start. UC is coming off a sixth-place performance at the St. Croix Collegiate Classic that saw senior Allison Couch record her first top-10 finish of the season.
PREVIEWING THE TOURNAMENT: A total of 17 teams will converge on the El Diablo Golf and Country Club for the 2005 Lady Herd/El Diablo Intercollegiate. Marshall will serve as the host for the event which covers 54-holes over two days on March 21-22. A 7:30 a.m. shotgun start will begin play each day. Western Carolina is the defending champion of the event and will again be in the field this year. Joining WCU, Marshall and UC are Boston College, Charleston Southern, Cleveland State, Coastal Carolina, Dartmouth, Florida Atlantic, Florida Gulf Coast, Hartford, Illinois, Montana, Murray State, Ohio, Siena and St. John?s.
IN THE RANKINGS: The latest Golfweek rankings show the Bearcats as the 157th ranked team in the country. Individually, six of UC?s nine players are in the rankings. The players with their rankings include: Hillery Wilson (522), Allison Mayborg (595), Alysa Few (721), Allison Couch (881), Sarah Bires (1001), Mya Pronschinske (1067).
PERFECT SHOTS: 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.
LAST TIME OUT: Allison Couch?s seventh place finish led the Bearcats at the St. Croix Collegiate Classic. As a team, UC finished sixth in the standings. Couch fired a three-day total of 232, including two rounds of 77 that tied her season-low totals.