Home tournament set for Monday and Tuesday
 The annual Charles Braun Jr. Intercollegiate will take place on Monday and Tuesday at Oak Meadow Country Club as the University of Evansville women’s golf team welcomes 12 other squads to town.
This year’s tournament will consist of one round on Monday, Oct. 22 and the final 18 holes on Tuesday, Oct. 23. A shotgun start commences play on each day at 10 a.m. CT. Par will be 72 and the yardage is 6,032. Supporters and fans are welcome to come and cheer on the Aces throughout the event.
Participating teams include: Butler, Central Michigan, Eastern Illinois, Evansville, Green Bay, UIC, Illinois State, Indiana State, IUPUI, Northern Kentucky, Southern Illinois, Tennessee State and Valparaiso.
UE is coming off of a huge outing at the Chi-Town/Ted Rhodes Fall Invite as the Purple Aces took the team championship while senior Sydney Anderson was the medalist.
All five of the Purple Aces team golfers finished in the top 12 as UE won the championship by eight strokes over Green Bay. Evansville tallied a 620 while the Phoenix finished with a 628. CSU Bakersfield finished in third place with a 643.
Anderson shot an even 72 in the last round, the lowest round of the tournament, on her way to the individual championship. Following her 79 on day one, Anderson finished the two rounds with a 151, defeating Green Bay’s Katie Warpinski by one shot.
Madison Chaney came home in fifth place. The senior carded a 79 in the final 18 and finished the event with a 156. Alyssa McMinn tied for 7th place. She posted an 80 in the opening round improved by two shots in the final round, registering a 78.
Sophia Rohleder came home in a tie for 9th place with a 2-round tally of 160 while Lexie Sollman took 12th place with a 162. Sollman made a huge leap for UE; she finished the first day with an 85 before firing off a 77 in the final 18 holes. Caitlin O’Donnell notched a 180 playing as an individual. After shooting a 93 in round one, she lowered her score by six, notching an 87 in the last round.
