BULLDOGS MOVE UP TO FINISH SECOND PLACE AT MOUNTAIN SHOOTOUT
Runner-Up Finish Represents Ferris State's Third Straight This Fall
 | Sophomore Meghan Hunter tied for 12th place with a 154 at the 36-hole Northern Arizona Mountain Shootout. |
Ferris State women's golf team moved up one place in Tuesday's (Sept. 19) final round to garner second place of eight teams at the Northern Arizona La Quinta Inn & Suites Mountain Shootout (Sept. 18-19) in Flagstaff, Ariz.
The Bulldogs fired a tourney second-round best 304 score and finished 11 strokes in back of first-place California Poly (606, +22) with a 617 team stroke total (+33). FSU shot an opening-round 314 score in Monday's (Sept. 18) play to claim third place. Sacramento State's 627 score (+43) was good for third place while host Northern Arizona posted a 638-stroke total (+54) to place fourth.
Individually, junior Becky Hoffman was the Bulldogs' top finisher with an eighth-place tying 152 (78-74=152, +6). Sophomore Meghan Hunter and senior Casey McKinnon both placed among the top 20 golfers by tying for 12th and 19th place, respectively. Hunter fired an eight-over par 154 (78-76=154, +8) and McKinnon turned in a 12-over par 158 (79-79=158, +12).
Junior Missy Ward carded a 162 (79-83=162, +16) to place 25th and sophomore Alison Meyer rounded out the scoring for Ferris with a 29th-place tying 164 (90-74=164, +18) on the par 73, 6,032-yard Continental Country Club course.
Recording a noteworthy effort as a non scorer was sophomore Raquel Hansen, who tied McKinnon for 19th place with a 158-stroke total (83-75=158, +12).
The second-place finish represented the third straight for Ferris State to date this fall.
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