RESULTS

PHOENIX, Ariz. – The Eastern Washington University women's golf team finished tied for 11^th today (March 1) in its first day at the Grand Canyon Invitational in Phoenix, Ariz. The Eagles shot 310 strokes in the first round and 311 strokes in the second for a total of 621 strokes on 36 holes.

"Today was a little rough. The start of each round really hurt us into unrecoverable position. We definitely have some cobwebs coming off a long stretch of not competing," said head coach Brenda Howe. "Tomorrow we need to be mentally stronger in order to post a lower score. We did see some good rounds from Jaelin Ishikawa, and another from Stephanie Chelack. Hopefully we come back strong tomorrow and climb the leaderboard a little."

After two rounds, the Eagles placed fourth among the five Big Sky Conference schools competing, defeating Montana State (628) by seven strokes. EWU finished 44 strokes away from first-place Grand Canyon (577) and 27 strokes away from third-place conference opponent Northern Arizona (594). California Baptist shot a 579 to place second and Seattle shot a 594 to tie with NAU. Conference foe Idaho shot 604 strokes and finished 17 strokes ahead of Southern Utah (621) who tied with Eastern.

The Eagles play the final round of 18 tomorrow beginning with a shotgun start at 7 a.m. Pacific time. Live scoring for the tournament is available HERE.

INDIVIDUAL RESULTS
T21 Jaelin Ishikawa 75, 74
T37 Stephanie Chelack 78, 75
T58 Carisa Padilla 79, 78
T71 Alexa Clark 78, 84
81 Morgan Baum 85, 89

Following the second day of the GCU Invite, the Eagles are back in action March 8-9 for the Jackrabbit Invitational hosted by South Dakota State in Boulder City, Nev.