Ball State University Athletics
Women's Golf Hosts Cardinal Classic Saturday, Sunday
September 22, 2012 | Women's Golf
MUNCIE, Ind. -- The Ball State women's golf team will host the 12th annual Cardinal Classic this weekend at The Players Club in Yorktown, Ind.
The 36-hole tournament will include 18 holes Saturday and 18 holes Sunday on the par-72 layout that will play to 6,258 yards. The action begins both days with a 9 a.m. shotgun start. Results will be available each day on ballstatesports.com at the conclusion of play.
The tournament will feature 12 teams as Ball State welcomes Dayton, IUPUI, Marshall, Northern Illinois, Northern Kentucky, Oakland, Ohio, Valparaiso, UIC, Western Illinois and Western Michigan.
The Cardinals' lineup for coach Katherine Mowat this weekend will include sophomore Jenna Hague, junior Sarah Westaway, senior Autumn Duke, junior Meghan Perry and senior Zoe Camus.
Additionally, Ball State freshmen Karley Dobis and Brenna Obergfell, sophomore Ashtyn Brown and junior Mary Welch will compete as individuals.
Hague was the Cardinals' top finisher in their first event this fall, placing fifth two weeks ago at Illinois State's Redbird Invitational, where she played the final two rounds of the 54-hole tournament better than any other golfer in the field.
It was the sixth top-10 finish in just 12 career tournaments for Hague, who helped Ball State to a fourth-place team finish out of 15 teams at the event.
At last year's Cardinal Classic, Ball State finished second out of 10 teams behind champion Southern Illinois. The Cardinals placed five golfers in the top 15 on the final leaderboard, including three who are back this year: Hague (7th), Perry (T-11th) and Duke (15th).
Ball State hosted the Cardinal Classic for the first time in the fall of 2001 and has hosted it each year since. The Players Club has been the site for the event every year but one.
The Cardinals have won the tournament twice (Spring 2008 and Fall 2008) and finished in the top 3 a total of six times. Ball State also had the individual medalist at the 2010 event when current Cardinals graduate assistant Rachael Pruett finished atop the leaderboard.
