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Colorado State
Bryan National Collegiate Day 3
Recap: Prendergast earns 4th consecutive top-20 finish
4/2/2017 12:00:00 AM | Women's Golf
Results
BROWNS SUMMIT, N.C. - Colorado State golfer Katrina Prendergast recorded her fourth consecutive top-20 finish, placing tied for 14th out of 98 golfers at the Bryan National Collegiate. Prendergast now has six top-20 performances this year, including in all four spring tournaments.
The standout sophomore was the lone bright spot for the Rams, who finished 16th out of 18 teams in the weekend tournament. Originally scheduled to open play on Friday, rain pushed back the opening round to Saturday. The Rams sat in 15th place after two rounds, before falling back one spot during Sunday's final round.
"She's doing a really good job," head coach Annie Young said of Prendergast. "She seems to have control of her game and her emotions. If you ask her, she would say she didn't play as well as she would have liked in the fall, so this spring has been really good for her. She's been working really hard and this weekend she beat a lot of really good players."
Prendergast carded a 1-over 73 on Sunday, moving up one spot from Saturday. She was consistent all weekend, recording a 2-over 74 in the opening round and a 2-under 70 during Round 2. She closed the weekend with a team-most 10 birdies.
Behind Prendergast, however, the Rams struggled. Senior Brianna Becker had her best round of the tournament on Sunday (5-over 77), finishing at 20-over 236, along with freshman Ellen Secor. They tied for 76th place, ahead of senior Elisabeth Rau (24-over 240; T-84th) and Jessica Sloot (39-over 255; 93rd).
"It's been the same thing the whole year," Young said. "It seems like we'll put up a big number here or we get on a string of bogeys. The scores weren't quite there this week, but there was better golf played. It seems like it hasn't come together yet. We have two tournament lets and we hope it will by then."
No. 3 Alabama ran away with the title, finishing 13 strokes under par (851). Georgia was in second place (1-over 865), ahead of Baylor (3-over 867), North Carolina and North Carolina State (8-over 872), South Carolina (17-over 881), Miami (19-over 883), Michigan (21-over 885), Wake Forest (22-over 886), Virginia (33-over 897), UCF (36-over 900), Notre Dame (43-over 907), Oregon (50-over 914), Penn State (54-over 918), Georgetown (61-over 925), and CSU (65-over 929). The Rams placed ahead of College of Charleston (73-over 937) and North Carolina-Greensboro (85-over 949). Among the field were 11 nationally ranked top-50 teams.
CSU will play in one final tournament - the Dale McNamara Invitational, April 10-11, in Tulsa, Okla. - before traveling to the Mountain West Championship later in the month.
| Colorado State | 316 (+28) | 304 (+16) | 309 (+21) | 929 (+6)5 | 15th/18 |
| Katrina Prendergast | 74 (+2) | 70 (-2) | 73 (+1) | 217 (+1) | T-14th/98 |
| Ellen Secor | 82 (+10) | 76 (+14) | 78 (+6) | 236 (+20) | T-76th |
| Brianna Becker | 82 (+10) | 77 (+5) | 77 (+5) | 236 (+20) | T-76th |
| Elisabeth Rau | 78 (+6) | 81 (+9) | 81 (+9) | 240 (+24) | T-84th |
| Jessica Sloot | 83 (+11) | 87 (+15) | 85 (+13) | 255 (+39) | 93rd |
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