Ball State University Athletics
Women's Golf Travels To MAC Championship This Week
April 26, 2006 | Women's Golf
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The Ball State women's golf team enters this weekend's Mid-American Conference Championship looking to improve on its best ever finish at the event a year ago.
Cardinal senior Katie Sundberg returns to the event as the reigning medalist.
With a two-round total of 149 at the weather-shortened tournament last spring, Sundberg became the first non-Kent State player ever to earn individual MAC champion honors. Her score helped the Cardinals to a fourth place team finish, the best in the short history of the program.
Ball State will look to build off that performance starting Friday at Walden Ponds Golf Course in Hamilton, Ohio.
"We left last year's tournament with very good feelings and memories," Ball State coach Katherine Mowat said. "This year will be special from the standpoint of having three seniors playing."
The team's other two seniors, Julie Harder and Carmen Bodine, also return for their final MAC Championship after top 20 finishes at last year's tournament.
Junior Kallie Harrison will join them at the event for the first time after transferring to Ball State a year ago. Harrison owns the team's top stroke average in the spring at 77.56 and has finished as the team's first or second best scorer at each event in which she has participated.
"Kallie has never seen the MAC Championship course, but I think she'll do very well," Mowat said. "We can count on her to post a low number."
Harrison posted the team's lowest score in leading the Cardinals to an eighth place finish in the 16-team Illini Spring Classic two weeks ago. Ball State finished just ten strokes out of fifth place and defeated the other three MAC teams in the field.
That performance came on the heels of a fourth place finish the previous week at the Eastern Kentucky Spring Invitational.
Ball State's best team result of the spring came at the Butler Spring Invitational, where the Cardinals edged the host Bulldogs by three strokes in an event that was shortened by rain to one round.
Mowat hopes her team can draw from some of its recent success this weekend.
"I'm very pleased with our performance this spring," Mowat said. "We're in as good of shape as I think we could be at this point."
