BOULDER CITY, Nev. (October 27, 2026) - The Northern Arizona women's golf team closed out The Clash at Boulder Creek with a final-round score of +1, bringing its three-day total to +12 and securing 12th place. The Lumberjacks climbed three spots on the leaderboard in the final round.
Kansas claimed the team title with a score of -47, setting a new scoring record for the event and besting San Francisco's mark of -41 from 2024. Kansas' Ebba Nordstedt won the individual title, shooting rounds of 66-66-67 (-16) to set a new tournament record. Previously, Vunissa Vu (Fresno State) and Eva Pett (San Francisco) shared the record at -15 in 2024.
Frankie Dezis led the Lumberjacks with rounds of 70-72-76 (+2). The senior tied for the tournament lead in pars, tallying 42 overall. She averaged 3.08 (+1) on par 3s, 4.00 (E) on par 4s and 4.92 (-1) on par 5s. Dezis finished tied for 36th on the leaderboard.
Three Lumberjacks carded rounds of 71 (-1): Ella Zanatta, Kristyna Malinova and Gracie Heinle.
Zanatta began the day on hole 15 and opened with a birdie. She added two more birdies on holes one and 13. She led the team in par-5 scoring, averaging 4.75 (-3), which ranked tied for 24th in the tournament. With rounds of 74-75-71 (+4), the junior finished tied for 50th.
Malinova also finished tied for 50th after posting rounds of 72-77-71 (+4). She began the third round on hole 16 in the shotgun start and recorded her first birdie of the day on the par-5 18th. The freshman from the Czech Republic carded 15 pars in the final round, with just one bogey on hole 12. She ended the tournament on a high note, recording her sixth birdie of the event on her final hole, the par-5 10th.
Zanatta and Malinova each climbed 20 spots on the leaderboard from the previous day with their under-par rounds.
Heinle climbed 21 spots with her third-round score to finish tied for 62nd. The senior from Texas recorded four birdies in the final round, bringing her tournament total to nine. Her birdies came on holes 3, 6, 7 and her closing hole, the 16th.
Rounding out the lineup, Sofia Blanco finished tied for 76th with rounds of 72-75-78 (+9). The freshman from Bolivia recorded birdies on holes 17 and seven.
Competing as individuals, fellow freshman Martyna Muchajer finished tied for 81st with rounds of 76-73-77 (+10), while junior Alexa Ouellet shot 77-73-78 for a 12-over-par total, finishing tied for 84th.
As a team, Northern Arizona recorded 185 pars, the most of any team in the tournament, along with 33 birdies and two eagles. The 'Jacks averaged 3.17 (+10) on par 3s, 4.11 (+16) on par 4s and 4.92 (-5) on par 5s.
NAU will return to action in the spring at the Alice and John Wallace Women's Golf Classic, scheduled for February 14-16 in Palm Desert, Calif.
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