Aces travel to Florida for opening tournaments
 EVANSVILLE, Ind. – With their sights set on defending the Missouri Valley Conference Championship, the University of Evansville women’s golf team will begin its spring schedule next week at the Benbow Invitational.
Set for Monday and Tuesday, the tournament will feature 18 holes each day. Jacksonville Beach Golf Club in Jacksonville, Fla. will host the event with par set for 71 and the yardage coming in at 5,913.
It will be a full field for the ladies with 13 other teams set to play including: Butler, Eastern Illinois, Eastern Michigan, Indiana State, IUPUI, Monmouth, Purdue Fort Wayne, Radford, Savannah State, Troy, Valparaiso, Western Illinois and Western Michigan.
Evansville had a strong fall campaign, earning top five team finishes in three of its five events including a tie for fourth place at the Roseann Schwartz Invite. Mallory Russell completed the fall with the lowest stroke average on the team, averaging 77.20 strokes over 10 rounds. She shot a season-low 73 in the opening round of the Butler Fall Invitational while her top finish was a tie for sixth at the Briar Ridge Invitational.
Caitlin O’Donnell was second on the team with a 79.33 average and tied for UE’s low round of the year – a 72 in round one at Butler. Her performance at the Butler Fall Invitational was one of the best in her career with her rounds finishing at 72-75-73 on her way to a 7th out of 82 participants. Just behind O’Donnell was Alyssa McMinn. She finished the fall with a 79.54 average and opened the season with a tie for 10th at the Roseann Schwartz Invite. The final round of the event saw her shoot a season-low 74.
Allison Enchelmayer finished with a 79.69 mark. She matched O’Donnell’s low score of 72 in the fall. That also came in the same tournament and round as O’Donnell – at the Butler Fall Invitational. Her top finish was a tie for 14th at the Briar Ridge Invitational.
