AMERICAN COLLEGE NEWS
LOUISE HELPS JACKSONVILLE STATE TO RETAIN
OHIO VALLEY CONFERENCE TITLE
Scottish Under-21 girls’ champion Louise Fleming from Kelso has helped her American college, Jacksonville State University in Alabama, to win the Ohio Valley Conference women’s championship for the second year in a row.
Jacksonville State (915) won the team title by five shots from Eastern Kentucky (920) with Murray State (941) third of the eight-strong field.
Louise had rounds of 75, 77 and 78 for a 54-hole total of 230 over the par-72, 6,178yd course at Drake’s Creek Country Club, Smithland in Kentucky to finish joint sixth behind winning team-mate Shanelle Howett from South Africa.
Shanelle had rounds of 78, 73 and 74 for 225.
Portia Abbot, a freshman Jacksonville State University student from Wiltshire, scored 79, 77 and 78 for a share of 10th place on 234.
Aberdeenshire women’s champion Michele Thomson from Ellon will be enrolling at Jacksonville State after the summer holidays.
OHIO VALLEY CONFERENCE TITLE
Scottish Under-21 girls’ champion Louise Fleming from Kelso has helped her American college, Jacksonville State University in Alabama, to win the Ohio Valley Conference women’s championship for the second year in a row.
Jacksonville State (915) won the team title by five shots from Eastern Kentucky (920) with Murray State (941) third of the eight-strong field.
Louise had rounds of 75, 77 and 78 for a 54-hole total of 230 over the par-72, 6,178yd course at Drake’s Creek Country Club, Smithland in Kentucky to finish joint sixth behind winning team-mate Shanelle Howett from South Africa.
Shanelle had rounds of 78, 73 and 74 for 225.
Portia Abbot, a freshman Jacksonville State University student from Wiltshire, scored 79, 77 and 78 for a share of 10th place on 234.
Aberdeenshire women’s champion Michele Thomson from Ellon will be enrolling at Jacksonville State after the summer holidays.
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