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Sunday, February 25, 2018

Seton Hall claims one-shot victory in Rio Verde Invitational



   Seton Hall is never going to be the kind of women’s golf program that is challenging for a national championship, but there are some smaller goals that suddenly seem within reach for the Pirates.
   Seton Hall, bolstered by several PIAA standouts from recent years, finished off a solid fall campaign with a runaway victory in the Brown Bear Invitational. Which meant the opener of the spring portion of their season, this weekend’s Rio Verde Invitational, hosted by Western Michigan at the Quail Run Golf Course in Rio Verde, Ariz., presented the Pirates with an opportunity to do something no other Seton Hall team has ever done – win back-to-back tournaments.
   And, in a gritty, determined effort, Seton Hall did exactly that Sunday, chasing down Akron for a one-shot victory. Seton Hall is 107th in the latest Golfstat rankings, and was competing against teams also ranked in the 100s, but the Pirates got it done. And they did it without any of their players playing great, but with everybody contributing, with people picking each other up. It’s what good teams do and that’s what Seton Hall is right now.
   After struggling in an opening-round 307, Seton Hall still only trailed Akron by a shot. The Pirates put together a solid 8-over 296 in Saturday’s middle round while Akron carded a 5-over 293 and took a four-shot edge over Seton Hall into Sunday’s final round.
   Led by a 2-over-par 74 by Lizzie Win, a sophomore from Sylvania, Ohio, Seton Hall posted a final-round 299 to Akron’s 304. That gave the Pirates a 38-over 902 total, one shot better than the  903 total posted by the Zips.
   Arkansas State was another six shots behind Akron in third at 909 after a final-round 305, Bradley finished fourth at 913 after a final-round 299 and Wichita State was fifth in the 17-team field at 917 after a final-round 306. Arkansas State matched Akron’s 293 in the middle round, which was the low team round for the tournament.
   Akron was strong at the top its lineup, accounting for the top two spots in the individual standings. Danielle Nicholson, a junior from Geneva, Ohio, repeated as the Rio Verde individual champion with a 2-under 214 total over the 6,128-yard, par-72 Quail Run layout. The course played tough all weekend, but Nicholson tamed it with a 4-under 68, the only sub-70 round of the tournament, in Saturday’s second round and finished up with a 2-under 70.
   Teammate Jacinta Pikunas, a freshman from Youngstown, Ohio, was the runnerup, six shots behind Nicholson with a 4-over 220 total. Pikunas opened with a 1-under 71 and finished up with a 74.
   But Seton Hall was balanced and deep. The Pirates were led by freshman Mia Kness, the 2016 PIAA Class AAA champion as a senior at Peters Township. Kness opened with a 73 and added rounds of 76 and 75 to finish in a group tied for seventh at 8-over 224.
   Win and sophomore Maddie Sager, the PIAA Class AAA runnerup in 2015 as a senior at Owen J. Roberts, both ended up in the group tied for 16th at 227. Win opened with an uncharacteristic 83, but bounced back in a big way with a 2-under 70 in Saturday’s second round before finishing up with that final-round 74. Sager had rounds of 74, 75 and 78.
   Sophomore Sammie Staudt, a standout at Coatesville, and Cassie Pantellas, a senior from Canton, Ohio., finished in a group tied for 36th at 233. Staudt, like Win, opened with an 83, but bounced back with a pair of 75s. Pantellas opened with a 77 and added rounds of 81 and 75.
   The 77 by Pantellas in the opening round was big when Win and Staudt struggled and her final-round 75 was one of three 75s for the Hall, allowing it to toss Sager’s 78. Win’s bounce-back 70 in the middle round kept the Pirates in the hunt.
   Seton Hall also brought along senior Macky Fouse, the 2013 PIAA Class AA champion as a senior at Central Valley who competed as individual. And Fouse turned in a solid showing, finishing in the group tied for 30th at 231, highlighted by a 1-over 73 in the opening round when Quail Run was making it tough on most of the field.
   Kness, Win and Sager all earned trips to the U.S. Women’s Amateur at San Diego Country Club last summer, hinting at an improved team at Seton Hall. The Pirates finished 40 shots behind Big East champion Georgetown last spring in fifth place, the Hoyas earning an automatic bid to the NCAA regionals.
   Maybe that bid to the NCAA regionals is a goal worth shooting for for a Seton Hall team that seems to be playing some pretty solid tournament golf at the moment.
   Arkansas State’s Sarah Childers, a senior from Jonesboro, Ark., finished third in the individual standings at 5-over 221, a shot behind Akron’s Pikunas. Childers broke par with a 2-under 70 in the second round. Wichita State’s Taryn Torgerson, a senior from Buhler, Kan., was another shot back in fourth at 6-over 222. Torgerson matched par in the second round with a 72.
   Bradley’s Taylor Ledwein, a sophomore from New Prague, Minn., and Eastern Michigan’s Maria Connelly, a sophomore from Westerville, Ohio., finished tied for fifth, another shot behind Torgerson at 7-over 223. Ledwein finished strong with an even-par 72 while Connelly also climbed the leaderboard with her final round of  1-under 71.


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