KirkwoodGolf: LOUISE MCGILLIVRAY MAKING HER MARK AT MERRIMACK UNIVERSITY, BOSTON

Wednesday, May 01, 2013

LOUISE MCGILLIVRAY MAKING HER MARK AT MERRIMACK UNIVERSITY, BOSTON



Louise McGillivray from Banchory, a student at Merrimack University, Boston, finished a close-up joint third in the ECAC women's college conference championship - and helped her college to win the title - by the runaway margin of 30 strokes - for the first time at the Country Club of Ithaca, New York this week.
Louise, end right in above pictures, was also chosen for the "All-Tournament Team."
Louise had two rounds of 80 for a total of 160 over the par-72 Country Club of Ithaca, New York State's course of 5,800yd.
Sharon Li (Ithaca) (79-77) and Jessica Ngui (Merrimack) (77-79) tied on 156. 
Sharon, playing over her home course, won the sudden-death play-off at the second extra hole.
Merrimack (649) won the team title ahead of New York University (679) at the head of a field of eight teams.   

FROM THE MERRYMACK UNIVERSITY WEBSITE
In their first-ever appearance in the ECAC Championships, the Merrimack women's golf team collected their first victory of the spring season. The Warriors shot a two-day team total of 649 at the par 72, 5,800 yard Country Club of Ithaca, 30 shots ahead of second place, New York University.
The 30 stroke victory for the young Warriors was the most decisive win in program history and their first-ever ECAC Conference Championship.
The host Ithaca College, the reigning Division III National Champions, came in third place with a team two-day total of 682 while St. Lawrence and Hamilton wrapped up the top-five.
Jessica Ngui (Richardson, Texas)
paced the Warriors once again as she fired a 79 on day two after shooting a field-low 77 in the opening round. Ngui and Sharon Li from Ithaca tied for medalist honours so a playoff was needed to decide the winner. Li edged out Ngui on the second play-off hole to take the medalist honors.
Louise McGillivray (Banchory, Scotland)
finished off her impressive weekend with back-to-back 80's on her way to a third place overall finish and finding herself on the All-Tournament team. 

Fellow Warrior, Ali Reed (Westborough, Mass.) also found herself on the All-Tournament team after carding a 83 on Sunday and a two-day total of 161. Reed took home a fifth place individual finish.
Freshman Jaclyn Drew (Lunenburg, Mass.) continued her consistent play as she shot back-to-back rounds of 86 on her way to a 12th place finish while fellow teammate Lloyd Hoehle (Fullerton, Calif.) backed up her opening round 86 with a 92 on Sunday, earning a 17th place finish as a individual.
Coming in at No. 11 in the most recent regional ranking poll, the Warriors will now await their fate of a possible NCAA Division II Tournament at-large bid. It would be the program's first-ever berth in the national tournament in only its second year of competition.

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