Colorado State University Athletics
CSU women's golf preview: MountainView Collegiate
3/27/2009 12:00:00 AM | Women's Golf
March 27, 2009
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Next on the tee...
The Colorado State women's golf team travels to Tucson, Ariz., Saturday and Sunday to compete in the 11th annual MountainView Collegiate Invitational. The tournament is the Rams' final tuneup before competing in the Mountain West Conference championships April 16-18 in Seaside, Calif.
The course...
The tournament will once again be held at the 6,263-yard, par-72 MountainView Golf Course in Tucson, Ariz.
The field...
The field will consist of 19 teams, including six programs, No. 19 San Jose State, No. 20 Louisville, No. 32 UNLV, No. 38 Colorado, No. 48 Michigan and No. 49 Texas Tech, ranked in the top 50 nationally in the Golfweek/Sagarin performance index. Other teams competing will be Arizona B, Boise State, Fresno State, Indiana, Iowa State, Kansas State, Missouri, Nebraska, Northwestern, Oklahoma, Oregon State, and Washington State. The Rams enter the tournament ranked 67th nationally.
Rams lineup...
Competing in the tournament for the Rams will be junior Natalie Stone, freshman Brianna Espinoza, freshman Melissa Martin, junior Kasey Claussen, and senior Stefanie Ferguson. Sophomore Cecilia Edlund will also be in action, competing as an individual.
BYU Dixie Classic recap...
Junior Natalie Stone and freshman Brianna Espinoza each posted career-best finishes, grabbing a share of fourth and finishing seventh, respectively, to lead the Colorado State women's golf team to a season-best second-place finish at the BYU Dixie Classic at La Entrada at Snow Canyon Golf Course Wednesday. Stone, a native of Bountiful, Utah, used a closing 74 to finish with a 7-over 223 and climb into a tie for fourth place. It marked Stone's career-best finish, eclipsing her 13th-place finish last fall at the Heather Farr/CU Memorial. Espinoza also posted a career-best finish, placing seventh overall with a 9-over 225 after shaving six strokes from her first and second rounds and leading the Rams with a 1-under 71 in the third round.
Notes...
• The team has placed in the top 10 six times so far this season.
• The Rams' second-place finish at the BYU Dixie Classic marked a season best, and the second consecutive year that the Rams posted a season-best finish at the tournament.
• Five Colorado State golfers rank in the top 20 in the Mountain West Conference in stroke average. Junior Kasey Claussen ranks ninth with an average of 74.83, followed by freshman Melissa Martin (13th, 76.00), senior Stefanie Ferguson (15th, 76.23), junior Natalie Stone (17th, 76.62) and freshman Brianna Espinoza (19th, 77.24). Colorado State and TCU are the only programs in the conference to have five individual golfers listed in the top 20.
• As a team, CSU ranks fourth in the MWC with a stroke average of 301.46. On its current pace, the team would break the school record of 303.87, set in 2004-05, by more than two strokes.
• Colorado State is eighth in the nation for par-3 scoring with an average of 3.14.
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