EVANSVILLE, Ind. – The University of Southern Indiana women’s golf team gets its season underway when it hosts the 21st annual Screaming Eagle Golf Classic at Cambridge Golf Course Sunday and Monday. The two-day event will be the 12th consecutive year the Screaming Eagles host their home tournament at Cambridge.
USI is one of seven teams competing in this year’s tournament. Joining USI at Cambridge will be GLVC foes University of Illinois Springfield, University of Missouri-St. Louis, Lewis University, and Saint Joseph’s College, as well as Rend Lake College and Christian Brothers University.
At last season’s Classic, senior Allison Koester (Wadesville, Indiana) shot a six-over 150 (74-76) to take first place and help the Eagles to the overall team win. Koester will attempt to become the fourth person to repeat as tournament champion and second from USI. The Eagles won the event in 2015 with a total of 615, 18 strokes ahead of second place UMSL. USI is going for its fifth team title in 2016.
Koester, who had two wins last season, looks to lead an experienced Eagles team that returns six golfers from a year ago. Joining Koester to help guide the Eagles is junior Taylor Howerton (Evansville, Indiana), who was second on the Eagles last year with an average of 78, and senior Kori Jacobsen (Bedford, Indiana), who recorded four top-10 finishes, including a top-five at the UIS Spring Invite.
Play begins Sunday at 9 a.m., followed by a shotgun start Monday at 8:30 a.m. Cambridge Golf Course is located about a mile south of the Hwy. 41 and I-64 intersection.
