ROUND ONE RESULTS
PLAYER LEADERBOARD
TEAM LEADERBOARD
LAKEWOOD RANCH, Fla. (October 20, 2019) - Northern Arizona's women's golf team is in a three-way tie for 14th-place after the conclusion if the first round of the 42nd -nnual Pat Bradley Invitational hosted by Florida International at the Cypress Links-Lakewood Ranch Golf & Country Club in Lakewood Ranch, Fla., on Sunday.
NAU shot for 15-over during the first round of play to end the day at a team total of 303. Jacksonville and Texas A&M Corpus Christi tied the 'Jacks for the 14th spot on the team leaderboard. Southern Alabama leads the field at five-under as a team.
"The back end was tough for us today," said head women's golf coach
Brad Bedortha. "We had a decent bit of bogey's but there is room to improve tomorrow."
Sophomore
Aleksandra Chekalina led the way for Northern Arizona posting a two-over (74) performance to tie for 35th-place. She would shoot for birdie on the seventh and ninth holes, but two straight bogeys on the backend of the course on holes 14 and 15 proved to be costly. Chekalina is seven strokes out from the tournaments leader Lauren Waidner (-5, 67) of Florida.
Fellow sophomore
Ashley Croft (+3, 75) was one stroke behind Chekalina to earn a tie for 43rd-place. Coft was even on every hole, except the 10th and 13th-Holes where she swung for a double bogey and bogey respectively, Senior
Emma Reyes was four-over during the first round and found herself in a tie for 56th-place. Freshman
Alyza Flores and another sophomore
Elle Kocourkova each tied for 73rd-place at six-over (78) to round out the scoring for the Lumberjacks.
In the second round NAU will be paired with Eastern Michigan and Jacksonville. The second round of play is expected to get underway at 5:00 a.m. (MST) tomorrow on Monday, October 21.Â
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