POTTSBORO, Texas — St. Mary's finished the heavily stacked Texoma Chevy Dealers Lion Intercollegiate Tuesday, placing tied for 12th out of the 21 teams participating.
Bailey Furgeson (So., Newcastle, Calif.) led the way for the Rattlers, tying for 25th place after carding rounds of 85 and 82 for the tournament.
As a team, St. Mary's final tally was 688, good enough to tie with Texas A&M-Kingsville for 12th place. Lubbock Christian took the title, finishing 47 strokes ahead of the Rattlers at 641, followed by Arkansas-Fort Smith and Colorado St.-Pueblo.
Julia Dickens (Sr., Fredericksburg, Texas) finished second-best for the Rattlers, tying for 36th place followed by
Camille Furgeson (Sr., Newcastle, Calif.) and
Heather Wedige (Fr., San Antonio), both of whom tied for 53rd place with a final stroke count of 175.
Daryn Petermann (So., Comfort, Texas) finished in 82nd place and
Adela Elizonda (Sr., Monterrey, Mexico) finished tied for 76th in the medalist category.
St. Mary's tees off for its next tournament at the Midwestern State Invitational starting Monday in Wichita Falls, Texas.
St. Mary's University, as a Catholic Marianist University, fosters the formation of people in faith and educates leaders for the common good through community service, integrated liberal arts and professional education, and academic excellence. The University has six athletic national titles: men's basketball (1989–NAIA), baseball (2001–NCAA Div. II), softball (1986–NAIA and 2002–NCAA Div. II) and an individual national champion in men's golf (2006–NCAA Div. II) and a national academic championship in men's golf (2009–NCAA Div. II). St. Mary's also had more than 40 percent of its athletes named to conference, regional and/or national honor rolls this past year. St. Mary's student–athletes graduation rate is 65 percent, higher than the NCAA Division II average of 55 percent. To learn more about St. Mary's, visit www.rattlerathletics.com.
