University of Southern Indiana Women’s Golf has been selected for the NCAA II East Super Regional, which will take place May 8-10 at Glenmoor Country Club in Canton, Ohio. USI is ranked 10th of the 12 teams selected.
Junior Taylor Howerton (Evansville, Indiana) has paced the Screaming Eagles for much of the season, leading the team with an average of 77 strokes per round. She has finished in the top ten in each of the last five events and has five top-five finishes on the year.
Freshman Grace Davis (Valparaiso, Indiana) is second on the team with an average of 81.39 strokes per round. She won the Screaming Eagles Classic in September at Cambridge Golf Course.
As a team, the Eagles have one win at the Maryville Fall Invitational and nine top-five finishes, most recently a fifth-place finish in the Great Lakes Valley Conference Championship.
There are four other GLVC teams in the regional. They are GLVC champion University of Indianapolis, the University of Missouri-St. Louis, the University of Illinois Springfield, and Lewis University. The five teams from the Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference are the University of Findlay, Grand Valley State University, Northern Michigan University, Ashland University, and Northwood University. Rounding out the field are two members from the Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference, Gannon University and California University of Pennsylvania.
The Super Regional is a 54-hole event, with the top three teams and top three individuals not on a qualifying team advancing to the NCAA II Women’s Golf Championships at Findlay Country Club May 17-20 in Findlay, Ohio.
