Ducks Scout Regional Course in Hornet Invite
EUGENE ? After impressive showings the last two tourneys, the No. 44 University of Oregon women’s golf team continues its successful spring run in the Sacramento State Invitational, Monday-Tuesday, March 31-April 1.
The Ducks claimed their first Duck Invitational team championship at home last Monday-Tuesday (3/24-25), while freshman Kendra Little won UO’s second straight individual title after junior Cathryn Bristow won the UNLV Spring Rebel Invitational two weeks before.
UO is one of 19 teams set to play two, 18-hole rounds Monday and a final round Tuesday morning on the par 72, 5,819-yard course. Action in the first-ever tournament starts both days at 8 a.m. on the Lincoln Hills Golf Club in Lincoln, Calif.
SIZING UP THE FIELD
No. 10 Denver is the top-ranked team in the field, and seven others rank top 60 - No. 44 Oregon, No. 45 San Francisco, No. 48 Washington State, No. 54 UNLV, No. 55 Colorado, No. 56 UC Davis and No. 57 UC Irvine. Other teams slated to play (including those with top-100 rankings in ()) include Cal Poly (75), Cal State Bakersfield, Cal State Northridge, Eastern Washington (97), Fresno State (89), Idaho (80), Nevada, Northern Arizona, Sacramento State, San Diego State and Santa Clara.
TOURNEY PLAY / RESULTS
Live stats will be available at the www.GolfStat.com website, and complete results will be posted after each round to the www.HornetSports.com website.
POLL POSITIONS
Complete team and individual weekly Golf Week magazine national rankings are available at the www.golfweek.com website.
DUCKS TO WATCH
Junior Cathryn Bristow leads the Ducks in this week’s Golfweek national rankings (122nd, 74.50), just ahead of freshman Kendra Little (134th, 74.66), and next is sophomore Felicia Eastick (266th, 76.21).
Bristow’s sixth-place Duck Invitational finish last week (75-77-72-224) was her fourth top-10 showing of the season. In those eight tournaments, she has paced UO twice and ranked second in three other stops.
Bristow’s four par or better scores the last two events give her seven in her 24 rounds this season. The pair of 3-under 69 scores the first two rounds at UNLV in early March tied her season best from the fall’s Stanford Intercollegiate, although that previous score was on the par 71 Stanford Golf Course. She had another 2-under 70 finale in Las Vegas, an even-72 final round in the recent Duck Invitational in Eugene, and a 1-under 71 in the Heather Fall Memorial second round and Edean Ihlanfeldt Invitational final round last fall.
Altogether, she has paced UO in eight rounds this year, including the last four of the fall slate in the Stanford Intercollegiate (two-under 69) and USF Invitational (second, 75-72-72). Her other top-10 effort came in the fall Edean Ihlanfedlt Invitational near Seattle (eighth, 77-73-71).
With her first collegiate win in the Duck Invitational last week, Little has led UO in five of her eight contests this season.
The tourney before in Las Vegas, her fourth-place finish marked her second top-five collegiate finish after her fourth-place Edean Ihlanfelt Invitational effort in Seattle last fall. The local product out of Sheldon High School, has three more top-15 placings and another top-25 effort in her seven collegiate tournaments.
Among her 24 collegiate rounds, the Eugene, Ore., native and Sheldon High School product has shot six rounds of 72 or better - a school 67 (-5) in Las Vegas in early March, two 69’s (-3, -2), a 70 (-2), two 71’s (-1) and two 72’s (par) ? and has paced UO in 11 rounds overall (spring-5, fall-6).
Also a team leader in four rounds last fall, sophomore Felicia Eastick shot a career low three-under 69 en route to a win in the fall opener, the Giustina Memorial Classic in Corvallis, Ore., (74-69-74). This week, her 15th-place Duck Invitational ranked her third on the team - the sixth time she has stood top-three for the Ducks in her seven appearances in 2007-08.
Sophomore Kate Hildahl opened the spring on fire with four of the six lowest rounds of her career in the spring’s first two stops (72, 73, 74 (x2)), and her two came her freshman season in 2006-07 (73 (x2)). The Tualatin, Ore., native led the Ducks in the first and third rounds and in the overall final standings in the spring opener, the Lady Gator Invitational (27th, 77-73-74-224).
Also in the Duck Invitational, freshman Erica Omlid ranked fourth for UO for the second time in three spring contests, and junior Blair Ressler had the second-highest finish of her collegiate career behind her 2007 fall opener debut, the Giustina Memorial Classic (24th-t, 79-76-76).
LAST WEEK’S REWIND
EUGENE ? In the 14th annual Duck Invitational (3/24-25), freshman Kendra Little and No. 43 UO swept the team and individual titles at the Eugene Country Club. In the final round, Little added three strokes to her lead with her 1-under 71 on the par-72, 6,052-yard course to claim her first collegiate title by four strokes (70-73-71-214) over Washington State’s Amy Eneroth (second, 72-72-74-218). Two other Ducks placed top 15 overall ? Cathryn Bristow (sixth-tie, 75-77-72-224) and Felicia Eastick (15th, 75-78-75-228). Junior Blair Ressler (30th-tie, 77-75-82-234), freshman Erica Omlid (35th-tie, 77-83-76-236) and sophomore Kate Hildahl (39th-tie, 79-81-77-237) added top-40 finishes overall.
In the team standings, the Ducks won their first-ever home tourney title and added three strokes to their lead in the final round (297-309-294-900) thanks to the tourney’s low round and won by four strokes over UC Davis (second, 302-305-297-904). Since the first event in 1989, Oregon had finished second four times prior (1990, ’99, 2004 and ’05) and had placed top five three other times - 1989 (fifth, 971),’ 92 (fourth, 945) and ’07 (fifth, 943).
OTHER SPRING ACTION
Three weeks ago in the UNLV Spring Rebel Invitational (3/10-12), junior Cathryn Bristow won her third collegiate title, the Ducks broke both the team round and tournament scoring records, and freshman Kendra Little rewrote the UO single round best in the finale. Bristow became the first Duck ever to shoot three consecutive under-par rounds in the same tourney (69-69-70-208) and won by two strokes on the par 72, 6,202-yard Boulder Creek Golf Club. Little broke the school single round record with her five-under 67 and finished fifth overall (72-74-67-213). Little’s record final round ? the best of the tourney ? bettered the previous Duck record of 4-under shot by Kim McCready in 2006 (67, -4), Paula Patterson in 1997 (68, -4) and Jerilyn White in 2001 (68, -4).
As a team, the Ducks ended with a three-round school best that was punctuated by a record final round (292-291-286-869) to finish in a third-place tie with No. 48 Texas Tech (292-286-291-869). Other Ducks that played included Hildahl (42nd, 78-74-72-224), Eastick (46th, 75-74-77-226) and Omlid (56th, 76-75-77-228). Thanks to its previous team season-low opening rounds of 291 and 292, UO enjoyed a three-round tally of 869 that improved upon the previous school record of 885 that it shot once during the 1996-97 and 1999-2000 seasons.
In early February, the Ducks opened the spring with a ninth-place finish in the Lady Gator Invitational (2/22-24) at Gainesville, Fla., against a field that featured seven, top-50 ranked teams. UO climbed four spots in the second round and two spots in the finale (321-295-303). Hildahl shot the Duck low in the first and third rounds (27th, 77-73-74-224) and was the Ducks’ top finisher overall for the second time in her career. Other Oregon entries included Eastick (44th, 83-71-77-231), Bristow (53rd-t, 80-76-78-234), Omlid (56th-t, 81-75-79-235), Little (60th-t, 85-78-74-237) and Ressler (72nd-t, 88-77-77-242).
FALL REWIND
The Ducks opened the fall season with third-place finishes in two of their first three tourneys ? the Giustina Memorial (299-304-300) and Edean Ihlandfeldt Invitational (307-290-303) in Corvallis, Ore., and Sammamish, Wash., respectively. Oregon also competed in the Heather Fall Memorial (sixth, 038-298-295-901), Stanford Invitational (16th, 310-319-303-932) and USF Invitational (fourth, 308-307-303-918).
DUCK STATS
To see current UO women’s golf statistics, choose the STATISTICS link at the top of the UO women’s golf page or go to the http://www.goducks.com/ViewArticle.dbml?SPSID=36837&SPID=247&DB_OEM_ID=500&ATCLID=1283367 URL address.
TOP DUCK
In 2007-08, Duck head coach Shannon Rouillard returns for her eighth season at the helm and guided Oregon to 11th place in the 2000 NCAA Championships, while UO regional-qualifying squads just missed return NCAA trips three of the past seven seasons. As a player, she was a Pac-10 honorable mention all-conference honoree for UO in 1995 and took seventh in the 1993 Pac-10 Championships to help the squad to a fourth-place finish. She was tabbed twice as the team’s most improved player and was a team captain and MVP her senior season after she took 29th in the NCAA Championships that season.
After her collegiate career, Rouillard was a 1999 Women's U.S. Open qualifier and a medalist in the Lake Merced (Calif.) qualifying tournament. Before she returned to the Duck program as a coach, she played on the Players West Golf Tour (1995-96) and served as an assistant women's golf coach at California (1997).
Earlier this past fall, Rouillard was again busy as a player in the U.S. Women's Mid-Amateur, held in Carefree, Ariz., after she tied for 35th in stroke play qualifying (80-81-161). A month before, she claimed medalist honors in the U.S. Women’s Mid-Am qualifier at Oswego Lake Country County Club in late August, and won the single-round event by two strokes with her 74.
JONES JOINS IN
The Duck coaching staff is rounded out by first-year assistant Meredith Jones. The Eugene native was one of Baylor’s top players from 2003-06, and an All-Big 12 Tournament selection and top 15 conference championships finishers all three seasons. She enjoyed a seventh-place Big 12 placing as a sophomore, followed by 12th- and 14th-place efforts as a junior and senior, and also played on Baylor’s first-ever NCAA tournament qualifiers. As a prep, the three-time state champion helped Marist High School to five championships.
Off the course, she was honored as an Academic All-American, Academic All-Big-12, Commissioners Honor Roll and NCGA Scholar selection.
Her family enjoys strong ties to the Duck athletic department. Her father Dr. Donald Jones is a UO team doctor, and her brother-in-law Peter Sirmon was an All-Pac-10 linebacker for the Ducks.
RECENT RESULTS
Duck Invitational
Eugene Country Club, Par 72, 6,052 yards
University of Oregon - Eugene, Ore.
Tuesday, March 25, 2008
Team Results ? 1, Oregon, 297-309-294-900. 2, UC Davis, 302-305-297-904. 3, California, 314-301-297-912. 4, Washington, 309-306-308-923. 5, Idaho, 310-309-306-925. 6, Washington State, 304-309-313-926. 7, Colorado, 308-311-308-927. 8, Oregon State, 316-306-306-928. 9, Wyoming, 308-325-308-941. 10, Minnesota, 323-314-308-944. 11, Portland State, 318-321-312-951. 12t, Texas-San Antonio, 315-322-324-961. 12t, Montana, 316-323-322-961. 14, Long Beach State, 327-330-305-962. 15, Oregon, 326-317-325-968.
Individual Results ? 1, Kendra Little, Oregon, 70-73-71-214. 2, Amy Eneroth, Washington State, 72-72-74-218. 3, Shannon Yocum, California, 77-72-70-219. 4t, Katie Sisler, UC Davis, 72-78-73-223. 4t, Chelsea Stelzmiller, UC Davis, 77-74-72-223. 6t, Cathryn Bristow, Oregon, 75-77-72-224. 6t, Jessica Black, Washington State, 75-73-76-224. 8, Dominique Pytlewski, Colorado, 75-74-76-225. 9t, Lauren Archer, Oregon State (Individual), 78-74-74-226. 9t, Bryanna Gregory, UC Davis, 76-76-74-226. 9t, Julianna Uhrik, Oregon State, 77-71-78-226.
Oregon Results ? 1, Kendra Little, 70-73-71-214. 6t, Cathryn Bristow, 75-77-72-224. 15, Felicia Eastick, 75-78-75-228. 35t, Erica Omlid, 77-83-76-236. 39t, Kate Hildahl, 79-81-77-237.
Oregon ?B’ Team Results ? 30t, Blair Ressler, 77-75-82-234. 49, Victoria Wenslow, 80-77-84-241. 61t, Monika Graf, 80-85-81-246. 64t, Tiffany Schoning, 89-80-79-248.
INDIVIDUAL SEASON BEST SCORES / FINISHES
Individual Victories
Duck, Year, Fall Tournament Rounds Average
Felicia Eastick, So., Giustina Memorial Classic 74-69-74-217 72.3
Cathryn Bristow, Jr., UNLV Spring Rebel I Inv. 69-69-70-208 69.3
Kendra Little, Fr., Duck Invitational 70-73-71-214 71.3
Additional Top-10 Finishes
Duck, Year, Fall Tournament, Place Rounds Average
Cathryn Bristow, Jr., USF Invitational, 2nd 75-72-72-219 73.0
Kendra Little, Fr., Edean Ihlanfeldt Inv., 4th-tie 76-69-75-220 73.3
Cathryn Bristow, Jr., Edean Ihlanfeldt, Inv., 8th-tie 77-73-71-221 73.7
Kendra Little, Fr., UNLV Spring Rebel Inv., 5th-t 72-74-67-213 71.0
Cathryn Bristow, Jr., Duck Invitational, 6th-t 75-77-72-224 74.7
Additional Top-25 Finishes
Duck, Year, Fall Tournament, Place Rounds Average
Kendra Little, Fr., Heather Fall Mem. Clas., 11th-t 78-71-72-221 73.7
Kendra Little, Fr., Giustina Memorial Clas., 12th-t 73-79-75-227 75.7
Kendra Little, Fr., USF Invitational, 13th-t 76-74-78-228 76.0
Cathryn Bristow, Jr., Giustina Mem. Clas., 16th-t 73-80-76-229 76.3
Blair Ressler, Jr., Giustina Memorial Class., 24th-t 79-76-76-231 77.0
Cathryn Bristow, Jr., Heather Fall Mem., 24th-t 77-71-77-225 75.0
Kendra Little, Fr., Stanford Intercollegiate, 26th-t 69-78-76-223 74.3
Felicia Eastick, So., Duck Invitational, 15th 75-78-75-228 76.0
Individual Best Tournament Scores (Par 72 unless otherwise noted)
Duck, Year, Fall Tournament, Place Rounds-Score Avg.
>Cathryn Bristow, Jr., UNLV Spring Rebel Inv. 69-69-70-208 69.3
Kendra Little, Fr., UNLV Spring Rebel Inv., 5th-t 72-74-67-213 71.0
Kendra Little, Fr., Duck Invitational 70-73-71-214 71.3
Felicia Eastick, So., Giustina Memorial Class., 1st 74-69-74-217 72.3
Cathryn Bristow, Jr., USF Inv., 2nd (par 71) 75-72-72-219 73.0
Kendra Little, Fr., Edean Ihlanfeldt Inv., 4th-t 76-69-74-220 73.3
Kendra Little, Fr., Heather Fall Memorial, 11th-t 78-71-72-221 73.7
Cathryn Bristow, Jr., Edean Ihlanfeldt Inv., 8th-t 77-73-71-221 73.7
Kendra Little, Stanford Int., 26th-t (par 71) 69-78-76-223 74.3
Cathryn Bristow, Jr., Duck Invitational, 6th-t 75-77-72-224 74.7
Cathryn Bristow, Jr., Heather Fall Mem.l, 24th-t 77-71-77-225 75.0
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Low Rounds (Overall Score)
Duck, Year, Fall Tournament Score Round
Kendra Little, Fr., UNLV Spring Rebel Invitational 67 (-5) 3rd Round
Felicia Eastick, So., Giustina Memorial Classic 69 (-3) 2nd Round
Kendra Little, Fr., Edean Ihlanfeldt Invitational 69 (-3) 2nd Round
Cathryn Bristow, Jr., UNLV Spring Rebel Inv. 69 (-3) 1st Round
Cathryn Bristow, Jr., UNLV Spring Rebel Inv. 69 (-3) 2nd Round
Kendra Little, Fr., Stanford Intercollegiate 69 (-2) 1st Round
Cathryn Bristow, Jr., Stanford Intercollegiate 69 (-2) 3rd Round
Cathryn Bristow, Jr., UNLV Spring Rebel Inv. 70 (-2) 3rd Round
Kendra Little, Fr., Duck Invitational 70 (-2) 1st Round
Kendra Little, Fr., Edean Ihlanfeldt Invitational 71 (-1) 3rd Round
Cathryn Bristow, Jr., Heather Fall Memorial 71 (-1) 2nd Round
Cathryn Bristow, Jr., Heather Fall Memorial 71 (-1) 3rd Round
Kendra Little, Fr., Duck Invitational 71 (-1) 3rd Round
Kendra Little, Fr., Heather Fall Memorial 72 (-) 3rd Round
Kate Hildahl, So., Heather Fall Memorial 72 (-) 3rd Round
Kendra Little, Fr., UNLV Spring Rebel Invitational 72 (-) 1st Round
Kate Hildahl, Fr., UNLV Spring Rebel Invitational 72 (-) 3rd Round
Cathryn Bristow, Fr., Duck Invitational 72 (-) 3rd Round
Cathryn Bristow, Jr., USF Invitational 72 (+1) 2nd Round
Cathryn Bristow, Jr., USF Invitational 72 (+1) 3rd Round
Kendra Little, Fr., Giustina Memorial Classic 73 (+1) 1st Round
Cathryn Bristow, Jr., Giustina Memorial Classic 73 (+1) 1st Round
Felicia Eastick, So., Lady Gator Invitational 71 (+1) 2nd Round
Kendra Little, Fr., Duck Invitational 73 (+1) 2nd Round
Low Rounds (By Par)
Duck, Year, Fall Tournament Score Round
Kendra Little, Fr., UNLV Spring Rebel Invitational 67 (-5) 3rd Round
Kendra Little, Fr., Edean Ihlanfeldt Invitational 69 (-3) 2nd Round
Cathryn Bristow, Jr., UNLV Spring Rebel Inv. 69 (-3) 1st Round
Cathryn Bristow, Jr., UNLV Spring Rebel Inv. 69 (-3) 2nd Round
Kendra Little, Fr., Stanford Intercollegiate 69 (-2) 1st Round
Cathryn Bristow, Jr., Stanford Intercollegiate 69 (-2) 3rd Round
Cathryn Bristow, Jr., UNLV Spring Rebel Inv. 70 (-2) 3rd Round
Kendra Little, Fr., Duck Invitational 70 (-2) 1st Round
Kendra Little, Fr., Edean Ihlanfeldt Invitational 71 (-1) 3rd Round
Cathryn Bristow, Jr., Heather Fall Memorial 71 (-1) 2nd Round
Cathryn Bristow, Jr., Heather Fall Memorial 71 (-1) 3rd Round
Kendra Little, Fr., Duck Invitational 71 (-1) 3rd Round
Kendra Little, Fr., Heather Fall Memorial 72 (-) 3rd Round
Kate Hildahl, So., Heather Fall Memorial 72 (-) 3rd Round
Kendra Little, Fr., UNLV Spring Rebel Invitational 72 (-) 1st Round
Kate Hildahl, Fr., UNLV Spring Rebel Invitational 72 (-) 3rd Round
Cathryn Bristow, Fr., Duck Invitational 72 (-) 3rd Round
Felicia Eastick, So., Lady Gator Invitational 71 (+1) 2nd Round
Cathryn Bristow, Jr., USF Invitational 72 (+1) 2nd Round
Cathryn Bristow, Jr., USF Invitational 72 (+1) 3rd Round
Kendra Little, Fr., Giustina Memorial Classic 73 (+1) 1st Round
Cathryn Bristow, Jr., Giustina Memorial Classic 73 (+1) 1st Round
Kendra Little, Fr., Duck Invitational 73 (+1) 2nd Round
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