Eagle women’s golf finishes subpar in final fall invite

By Kennie Gable

The CSC women’s golf team rounded out its fall season with a subpar sixth place finish at the CSU Pueblo Farmer’s Insurance Sam Proal Invite in Colorado on Oct 11.

“Our results from Pueblo were not what we expected,” Head Women’s Golf Coach John Ritzen said. “There are some teams finishing ahead of us that we know we can play with, but we just can’t seem to put a solid round together as a group.”

After coming back from a hand injury, Brooke Kramer, junior of Aurora, Colorado, led the Eagles shooting a 75 in the first round and 83 in the second for an overall score of 157, a score good enough to earn her eighth overall in the contest.

Close behind Kramer was Kinsey Smith, junior of Windsor, Colorado who shot an 82-78-160, good enough to earn her a fourteenth overall placement at the tournament.

10 teams, including eight from the RMAC, competed in the tournament. The Eagles kept consistent, shooting 648 overall just three over their previous invite in Marshall, Minnesota.

Ritzen expressed his hope that the team will find some more success going into the spring season.

“Being 100% committed to each shot will help us avoid those bad holes that seemed to haunt us this fall,” Ritzen said.

The team will look to fulfill some individual goals for the spring season. They hope a less than stellar fall season will spur on some more wins for the spring season to come.

The Eagles will return to competition when they travel to Litchfield Park, Arizona for the SMSU Spring Invite at the Wigwam Resort to open up the spring season.