GOODYEAR, Ariz. - The Eastern Washington University women's golf team finished the Bobcat Desert Classic today tied for seventh place after shooting 946 (304, 325, 317) strokes at the Golf Club of Estrella in Goodyear, Ariz. The Eagles tied with Montana State and Dixie State, while finishing ahead of Idaho State and Northern Colorado to complete their regular season schedule.
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Jaelin Ishikawa had a great tournament in pretty bad conditions. I'm proud of the maturity she showed when winds became a factor," said head coach
Brenda Howe. "Next week it'll be important that, as a team, we keep our composure and eliminate the big numbers. We didn't play our best, but we were able to compete with a lot of conference schools. That's important as we head into the conference tournament next week."
Ishikawa shot an impressive 74 strokes in round three to finish with 225 total strokes, landing an overall sixth place individual spot. She tied with Utah Valley's number one player, Victoria Estrada (70, 79, 76).
The Eagles shot three strokes ahead of 10
th place Idaho State and four strokes better than 11
th place Northern Colorado.
INDIVIDUAL RESULTS
T6
Jaelin Ishikawa (72, 79, 74) 225
T30
Kami Twining (79, 77, 80) 236
T35
Stephanie Chelack (74, 84, 81) 239
50
Meghan Singh (79, 85, 82) 246
58
Carisa Padilla (81, 85, 0) 166
Up Next
Eastern Washington will prepare for the Big Sky Conference Championships next Monday-Wednesday on April 18-20 in Scottsdale, Ariz. A practice round on Sunday, April 17 will be available for each team before competing in an 18-hole round play each day of the championships.The Eagles are scheduled to tee-off at 7:50 am Pacific Time on Monday with Idaho and Montana State.
