The University of Southern Indiana women’s golf team has one event remaining in their regular season to be played this weekend. The Screaming Eagles will participate in the UIS Spring Invitational hosted by the University of Illinois Springfield at Annbriar Country Club April 16-17. The event will be held at the same course as the Great Lakes Valley Conference Championship the following week on April 22-24.
The Eagles in 2015-16
The Eagles have won four team championships during the 2015-16 season breaking the team record for most team wins in a season. USI sits in fourth-place in the latest East Region Rankings.
Winning Streak
USI has won the past two tournaments they have competed in. This past weekend, in the rain shortened Triton Spring Invitational, the Eagles brought home the win by three strokes. The weekend prior, four USI players placed in the top-ten to seal a victory for the Eagles at the Maryville Spring Invitational.
Breaking Records
Along with the four team wins, earlier this spring, at the Perry Park Spring Fling, the Eagles finished in third place out of 27 teams, breaking four records in the process. The team recorded a 911 in the three round tournament breaking the 54-hole team record, while the opening round score of 295 broke the single round team record. Senior Brittanie Garrison (Evansville, Indiana) broke two individual records with her three round total of 219 and round one score of 68. Fellow senior Anastasia Carter (Granger, Indiana) is on pace to break the season scoring average record of 78.1 set by Alisha Luigs in 2005-06.
The Field
The 16-team field will host seven teams ranked in the top-14 of the East Region rankings. The University of Indianapolis leads the group and is ranked second with USI and the University of Missouri-St. Louis in fourth and fifth. Also, four more GLVC teams are ranked 10-13 in William Jewell College, Illinois-Springfield, Drury University, and Lewis University.
The Course
Annbriar Country Club is a par 72, 617 yard course in Waterloo, Illinois and will host the event for the seventh consecutive year.
Back-to-Back Champions
The past two individual GLVC Champions are still on the USI roster. In 2014, Carter went two-under in round one to finish the two round event five strokes ahead of the rest of the field, claiming the title. In 2015, junior Allison Koester (Wadesville, Indiana) finished the three rounds with a total score of 22 and earned the Eagles second straight individual titles.
Last year
Koester earned the individual championship with a six-over-par 222 in the three round event. The 2014 Champion, Carter finished in a tie for eighth with a 233. The Eagles finished in third place, one stroke shy of UMSL and 15 strokes off the pace set by Indianapolis.
