University of Delaware Athletics
University of Delaware Women's Golf Team To Open 2012 Fall Season This Weekend at Tignanelli Towson Invitational
9/8/2012 9:41:00 PM | Women's Golf
PHOENIX, Md. -- The University of Delaware women's golf team opens its second varsity season on Sunday and Monday when the Blue Hens compete in the Tignanelli Towson Invitational this Sunday and Monday at the Towson Golf & Country Club.
The tournament will be played on the par 72, 6,619-yard course which has a course rating of 71.7 and a slope rating of 120 on Bent grass. In addition to Towson and Delaware, the 17-team field includes Bethune-Cookman, Central Connecticut, Delaware State, Fairfield, Fairleigh Dickinson, Hampton, Hartford, Hofstra, Long Island, Mount St. Mary's, Old Dominion, Quinnipiac, Randolph-Macon, St. John's and William & Mary.
The 36-hole tournament will feature one round on Sunday with the final round beginning Monday morning.
The Blue Hens are coming off a successful inaugural season during 2011-12, when the squad posted seven top-10 finishes on the year under head coach Patty Post.
Sophomore Sarah Skurla (at right), who posted a team-best 79.38 stroke average and was the Blue Hens' top finisher during three of the five fall tournaments last year, returns after missing the spring season with an injury. Classmate Andrea Slane also returns after a solid freshman campaign in which she was named the UD Alumni Association Team MVP, was the Blue Hens' low scorer in four invitationals, and ranked second on the team with a 79.59 average round.
Fellow sophomore Amanda Terzian posted the best score by a Blue Hen in three tournaments a year ago, when she ranked fourth on the squad by averaging 81.69 shots per round. Classmate Annie Bowlsby was one of three Delaware players to compete in all 11 tournaments in 2011-12, when she was third on the Blue Hens with an 80.93 average round. The team's lone senior, Frida Nilsson, also returns after averaging 81.71 shots per round.
This fall the Blue Hens will also compete in the Michigan Wolverine Invitational on Sept. 22-23, the Rutgers Invitational on Oct. 5-6, the Indiana Hoosier Invitational on Oct. 13-14, and the Florida International/Pat Bradley Invitational on Oct. 21-13.
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