UE women travel to Murray for Friday/Saturday tournament

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Contest is the final tune-up before MVC Championship

 EVANSVILLE, Ind. – In its final tune-up before the Missouri Valley Conference Championship, the University of Evansville women’s golf team will play at the Jan Weaver Invitational on Friday and Saturday.

Hosted by Murray State, the tournament is scheduled to include 36 holes on Friday with the final 18 taking place on Saturday.  A shotgun start commences the action at 8:30 a.m. each day at Miller Memorial Golf Course.  Par is at 72 with the yardage coming in at 6,234.

The Purple Aces are one of 11 schools in the event, joining Austin Peay, Belmont, Fort Wayne, Murray State, North Carolina A&T, North Dakota, Samford, Southern Mississippi, Tennessee State and Tennessee Tech.

UE is coming off one of its best performances of the season, taking second earlier this week at the Indiana State Invitational.  The Aces took second place behind Green Bay and led a group of four MVC schools in the event (UNI, Indiana State and Valparaiso).   Earning the highest finish for the Aces was Magdalena Borisova.  Scoring her first top five finish, the freshman carded a 78 in the final 18 holes to complete the tournament with a 152.  Her score was tied for fourth, just two strokes off the winning score.  One behind her was Allison Enchelmayer.  She registered Evansville’s low round of the day, totaling 75 strokes.  Her 3-over round lowered her final score to a 153, putting her 8th in the final standings.

Tying for 14th was Alyssa McMinn.  After shooting a 79 in Sunday’s round, McMinn completed the final 18 holes with a 78 to finish with a 157.  Mallory Russell and Caitlin O’Donnell tied for the 17th position.  Russell tallied a 79 in each round while O’Donnell’s scores finished at 77 and 81.  Carly Frazier was second among the ten individuals.  Rounds of 81 and 80 saw her tie for 27th with a 161.