Michigan
Women's Collegiate Shootout
Season-Low Rounds Highlight Tie for Sixth at Shootout
10/8/2002 12:00:00 AM | Women's Golf
FRANKLIN, Ind. -- Paced by sophomore Laura Olin's (Eden Prairie, Minn./Eden Prairie HS) season-best, even-par 72 and freshman Amy Schmucker's (Cold Spring, Minn./Rocori HS) career-best 74, the University of Michigan women's golf team tallied a final-round 301 team total Tuesday (Oct. 8) to move up one spot and tie for sixth at the Women's Collegiate Shootout at the Legends of Indiana. The Wolverines, who carded rounds of 308 and a season-best 299 during the first day, tied Northwestern (309-298-301) for the sixth spot with 908 tournament totals, a season-best 54-hole performance for the Maize and Blue.
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Senior Kim Benedict (Rochester Hills, Mich./Rochester Adams HS) opened with a season-best 73 in the first round and followed with a 75 in the second round, but ran into trouble with a final-round 80 to drop into a tie for 22nd with a 228 total. Junior Sarah Kruer (La Jolla, Calif./La Jolla Country Day) continued to play well with rounds of 79, 75 and 76 -- including two chip-ins -- for a 230 total, tying her for 26th with teammate Schmucker, who had rounds of 81, 75 and a career-best 74 for her 230 total.
After shooting 82 in the first round, fifth-year senior Stephanie Stasik (Lubbock, Texas/Coronado HS) rallied in the second round with a season-best 74 and closed with a 79 to give her a 235 total and tie for 48th. Junior/sophomore Courtney Goebel (Huntington Beach, Calif./Marina HS) tied for 84th with a 248 total (82-80-86).
Kent State led from start to finish as the Golden Flashes took home the team trophy after tallying rounds of 301, 288 and 299 for an 888 total. Runner-up Missouri (298-297-300) was the seven strokes behind Kent with an 895 total and Indiana (298-294-305/897) was third. The Hoosiers' Karen Dennison also led from start to finish and captured medalist honors by four strokes after her four-under 212 total (68-70-74). Wisconsin's Malinda Johnson vaulted into second place after firing a tournament-low 66 in the final round to give her a 216 total (74-76-66).
The Wolverines are off for just under two weeks before they close out the fall season with a trip to Knoxville, Tenn., Friday through Sunday (Oct. 18-20) for the Mercedes-Benz Collegiate Championships. The 54-hole tournament will be played at the Gettysvue Polo and Country Club.
Team Standings
1. Kent State 301-288-299 = 888 2. Missouri 298-297-300 = 895 3. Indiana 298-294-305 = 897 4. Wisconsin 302-301-299 = 902 5. Illinois 303-296-304 = 903 6. MICHIGAN 308-299-301 = 908 Northwestern 309-298-301 = 908 8. Minnesota 306-299-308 = 913 9. Iowa State 300-308-306 = 914 10. Kansas State 318-301-302 = 921 11. Kansas 309-306-310 = 925 12. Toledo 313-307-316 = 936 13. Notre Dame 316-309-318 = 945 14. Iowa 326-313-318 = 949 15. Eastern Michigan 322-317-313 = 952 16. Bradley 326-318-318 = 962
Top Individuals
1. Karen Dennison, Indiana 68-70-74 = 212 2. Malinda Johnson, Wisconsin 74-76-66 = 216 3. Veronique Drouin, Kent State 75-73-71 = 219 4. Katie Connelly, Wisconsin 74-72-74 = 220 Terra Petsinger, Minnesota 73-72-75 = 220 Gabby Wedding, Kent State 74-71-75 = 220 7. Karyn Stordahl, Minnesota 75-74-72 = 221 Martina Gillen, Kent State 74-74-73 = 221 9. LAURA OLIN, U-M 75-76-72 = 223 Stephanie Cheney, Illinois 75-74-74 = 223 Louise Kenney, Iowa State 72-72-79 = 223 Laurin Kanda, Illinois 73-72-78 = 223
Other Michigan Scores
T22. Kim Benedict 73-75-80 = 228 T26. Sarah Kruer 79-75-76 = 230 T26. Amy Schmucker 81-75-74 = 230 T48. Stephanie Stasik 82-74-79 = 235 T84. Courtney Goebel 82-80-86 = 248
Q U O T E S
Head Coach Kathy Teichert
On Wolverines' performance at the Legends ... "Overall I was pleased with our performance. We had a pretty consistent tournament. No, I shouldn't say pretty consistent -- it was consistent. Laura Olin had yet another good tournament for us. She is just playing solid golf right now. Kim Benedict slipped a little in the final round, but overall she was right in the thick of things. Amy Schmucker came back for us and Sarah Kruer is still playing really well. I just think it is a shot here and a shot there that kind of catches up to us. We are improving each day, and as we keep going I think we will get right back to the top of these tournaments -- tournaments in which we feel we should be at the top of."
On Laura Olin's play ... "She really worked hard on her short game during the course of the summer and I think it really has paid off. She's really stepping up into a leadership role. She wants to be very competitive and yet she's a really nice player to watch. She's always smiling, always talking, she's like a breath of fresh air. I think she has a great attitude and that is always taken to the course. She doesn't get negative, she keeps her head up and when the going gets tough, the tough get going, and that is Laura."
Sophomore Laura Olin
On the Wolverines' performance at the Legends ... "It was a pretty good tournament. Coming into this tournament we had big expectations since we had won the tournament a year prior, but it just didn't all come together. But still, it was a good tournament. I think people picked their games up when other people didn't perform well. The first round we kind of struggled but after that we shot 299 and 301 and that was great. Those were some of our best scores of the season. We're just really close to shooting really, really well."
On her play so far this season ... "Even though I am playing well right now, I am so close to playing really, really well. I guess I am still waiting to go low and that has been real frustrating for me. So far the consistency for me is all summer long all I did was work on my short game. It was like, short game, short game, short game and that has helped me get scores in the 74s and 75s rather than 78s or 79s. I'm just not making those short-game mistakes."
Senior Kim Benedict
On the tournament ... "I thought we played well. I just didn't. I felt awful because I'm shooting 43 on the front nine and I think that I have to shoot real low just in case someone doesn't play well and I come in and I realize I don't have to count and that makes me feel really good. When I'm not playing really well, it is a good feeling when other people step it up. That is what I think we need to do. When someone isn't having a good day there definitely has to be someone else there to pick up the slack. That is what is going to make our team score great. We need to get some of the higher scores down, which we all know we need to do. We haven't had any rounds of 68 so we know that we are going to have some of those higher counting scores go down. I think everyone knows we have to do that and we know we have to do it on a consistent basis and that is the hardest part. Even though we played well, we are one step closer to really putting it all together."
N O T E S
Michigan's 908 Women's Collegiate Shootout total lowered the season best 54-hole total by two strokes, bettering the 910 tallied last week at the Lady Northern Invitational.
Michigan's second-round team total of 299 marked a season best, topping the 300 in the second round at the Lady Northern last week. The 299 is the 21st time in school history the Maize and Blue has scored under 300.
Sophomore Laura Olin's 223 total at the Women's Collegiate Shootout re-set her season best by four strokes. Her previous best was 227 tallied at last week's Lady Northern.
With her rounds of 75, 76 and even-par 72 at the Women's Collegiate Shootout, sophomore Olin has now fired 17 straight rounds of 78 or better, including all 12 this season. For the season, she leads the team with a school-record pace of 75.66 strokes per round.
Freshman Amy Schmucker's final-round, two-over par 74 at the Women's Collegiate Shootout topped her career-best score of 75 (+4) she carded in the first and final rounds of the Wolverine Invitational.
Fifth-year senior Stephanie Stasik's two-over 74 in the Women's Collegiate Shootout second round bettered her previous season best of 77, which she has carded three times -- in the second round of the Mary Fossum Invitational and in the first and second rounds of the Lady Northern.
Senior Kim Benedict played in her 41st consecutive tournament for the Wolverines. Her first round one-over 73 at the Women's Collegiate Shootout was a season best, topping the back-to-back 74s she carded in the first and second rounds of the Lady Northern.
For the fourth straight tournament, the Wolverines used the same six players in the lineup.
Contact: Tom Wywrot (734) 763-4423
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