GWU Women's Golf to Wrap up 2013 Fall Season This Weekend at the Winthrop Intercollegiate
November 01, 2013 | Women's Golf
Boiling Springs, N.C. - The Gardner-Webb women's golf team will wrap up its 2013 fall slate this weekend, as the Runnin' Bulldogs will compete at the Winthrop Intercollegiate hosted by the Winthrop Eagles on November 2nd & 3rd in Rock Hill, S.C.
The two-day, 36-hole, Winthrop University Intercollegiate hosted by Winthrop University will be held at the par 72, 5,979-yards Rock Hill Country Club golf course in Rock Hill, S.C.
Last season, Gardner-Webb took second-place overall with a two-round combined score of 610, +34. The Runnin' Bulldogs finished behind Appalachian State who won the event with a team score of 592, +16.
Gardner-Webb is coming off an 11th-place team finish at the 2013 Fighting Camel Fall Classic back on October 21-22nd in which the Runnin' Bulldogs carded rounds of 328, 310 and 319 to finish with a 54-hole combined team score of 957, +93.
Head Coach Tee Burton will have his entire roster tee-off at the Winthrop Intercollegiate, but will construct a lineup of Taylor Dodson, Mary Katherine Donovan, Julia Henderson, Sarah Bertram and Courtney Yanch, while Pilar Morgan and Tessy Tuschen will compete as individuals at the two-day event.
Dodson will close out her first fall season at GWU this weekend, as the freshman will be competing in her sixth match of the fall slate. Dodson, who is coming off rounds of 82, 80 and 79 at the Fighting Camel Fall Classic, has posted two fourth-place finishes and a stroke average of 76.75 thus far this fall.
Like Dodson, Donovan will be playing in the sixth tournament of the fall season this weekend, as the sophomore is coming of a 54-hole combined score of 248, +32, two weeks ago at the Fighting Camel Fall Classic. The sophomore, who enters play this weekend with a stroke average of 79.5 overall, carded rounds of 79 and 80 to finish in a tie for 25th-place overall at this same event last fall.
Henderson, who led GWU with a combined score of 234, +18, last time out, is coming of her best 54-hole tournament performance during her short time at Gardner-Webb. The freshman has carded a low round of 73 over her four fall events thus far this fall and has recorded a stroke average of 80.18.
GWU's Bertram will also compete in her sixth tournament this fall season, as the freshman is coming off a three-round combined score of 240, +240, to place in a tie at 48th-place overall at the Fighting Camel Fall Classic. The local Concord, N.C. product has posted a top-four finish and a stroke average of 78.5 in her first semester of play at GWU.
Yanch breaks back into the lineup this weekend, as the freshman has posted rounds of 84, 87 and 89 in her two tournaments of action this fall season for GWU.
Both Morgan and Tuschen will tee-off as individuals over the weekend, as both played in this event last season in Rock Hill, S.C. Last year, Morgan carded rounds of 81 and 84 to finish in a tie for 34th-place overall with her 36-hole score of 165, +21, while Tuschen shot rounds of 86 and 85 to finish with a score of 171, +27, and in 43rd-place overall.
The Runnin' Bulldogs have two-top five team finishes this fall season and will look to add to that total this weekend in its final fall event of the 2013 calendar year.
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