COMPETITION:Mount
St. Mary's at Northeast Conference Championships
WHEN: Fri-Sun, Apr. 24-26, 2009
WHERE: Hershey Links, Hershey, Pa.
COMPETING
TEAMS: Central Connecticut State, Fairleigh Dickinson,
Long Island, Monmouth, Mount St. Mary's, Robert Morris, Sacred
Heart, Saint Francis (Pa.)
2008
Team Champion: Fairleigh
Dickinson (984)
2007
Individual Champion: Lucie
Sarochova, Central Connecticut State (229)
OPENING
TEE: The
Mount St. Mary's women's golf team looks for its Northeast
Conference title at the Northeast Conference Championships at the
Hershey Links in Hershey, Pa. The Mount's best finish in the event
was a fifth-place standing in 1998 and 2006 while Shannon Prettyman
has the best individual standing with a 12th-place finish in
2005.
LAST TIME
OUT: Christina
Hall won individual medalist honors to power the Mount St. Mary's
women's golf team to the Kutztown Spring Invitational title on
Saturday. Hall, who came into the final round two strokes behind
the leader with a first-round score of 88, carded an 85 on Saturday
to win the event by one stroke with a two-day total of 173. It
marks the 13th time in program history a Mount women's golfer has
won an event and the first since Shannon Prettyman won the Seton
Hill Invitational on Oct. 4, 2004. Along with Hall, Christina
Koerper, Megan Corbett and Maddy Martin helped the Mount to the
team title by finishing in the Top-10. Koerper finished fourth with
a two-round score of 178, Corbett placed tied for fifth with a
total of 181 and Martin ended the competition in seventh place with
a score of 184. Ananda Rochita (17th place, 199) also competed in
the event for the Mountaineers.
LAST
TIME AT THE EVENT: Katie
Letsch finished 21st to lead the Mount St. Mary's women's golf team
to an eighth-place finish at the Northeast Conference Championships
on Apr. 27. After posting a season-best in the opening round to
rank seventh, Letsch carded a 91 on the second day and an 86 in the
final round to post a three-round score of 257. Christina Koerper
(28th place, 263), Caitlin Fortner (30th place, 264), Megan Corbett
(40th place, 286) and Emily Morrison (42nd place, 289) also
competed for the Mountaineers.
NEXT
ON THE GREEN: The
Northeast Conference Championships concludes the Mount's
season.
PRESEASON
POLL: The
Mount St. Mary's women's golf team has been picked to finish sixth
at the Northeast Conference (NEC) Championships, according to the
NEC Preseason Coaches' Poll. Defending NEC champion Fairleigh
Dickinson received six first-place votes to be tabbed as the
preseason favorite. Sacred Heart garnered the four other
first-place nods to place second in the poll, and Long Island and
Saint Francis (Pa.) finished 3-4 while Central Connecticut State,
the Mount, Monmouth, Robert Morris, Wagner and St. Francis (N.Y.)
rounded out the poll
MAKING
STRIDES: The
Mount established its two-best single round totals and a new
two-round record at the ECAC Championships on Oct. 4-5. The squad
shot a 333 on the first round to break the single-round mark and
then broke that mark in the second round by two strokes with a
331. The two round score of
664 shattered the program record for two rounds by 20 strokes. In
addition, freshman Christina Hall notched the second-best single
round in the first round with a 78 and then established a new
two-round mark with a 160. Junior Christina Koerper posted a 79 in
the second-round, the fifth time a player shot under 80 in program
history, and finished one stroke behind Hall for a 161 for the
second-best two-round mark in program history. Freshman Maddy
Martin posted the fifth-best standard for two rounds with a 165 at
the ECAC Championships. The Mountaineers posted some of its best
scores at the Bucknell Invitational on Sept. 7. The two-round score
of 690 was the fourth-best two-round total in program history
The
squad's 339 in the final round was the seventh-best single round in
program history. In addition, sophomore Megan Corbett carded a 167
in the event, the eighth-best two-round score in team history. The
Mount has posted a two-round score under 700 five times in program
history, including twice this season.
THE
70'S SHOW: The
Mount has had a player shoot a round under 80 seven times in
program history and three of those players are on the 2007-08
squad. Senior Katie Letsch shot a 77 in the final round of the
Monmouth Invitational on Apr. 2, 2007 and a 78 in the second round
of the Mount St. Mary's Spring Invitational on Apr. 6,2009.
Freshman Christina Hall broke Letsch's old standard with a 76 at
the Mount St. Mary's Fall Invitational on Oct. 28 and registered
the fourth-best mark in program history at the ECAC Championships
with a 78 in the first round at the ECAC Championships on Oct. 4
while junior Christina Koerper posted a 79 in the final round of
the ECAC Championships on Oct. 5 for the seventh-best mark in team
history. Sophomore Megan Corbett tied the second-best mark of 77 in
the first round of the home invitational. Prior to this group,
Shannon Prettyman held the old standard after shooting 78 twice in
her career.
NEW
TO THE MOUNTAIN: Freshmen
Maddy Martin and Christina Wall joined the team in 2008-09, joining
sophomore Megan Corbett, junior Christina Koerper, senior Katie
Letsch and sophomore Ananda Rochita.
TOP
OF THEIR GAME: Senior
Katie Letsch leads the team with an 3727 strokes per round average
in 42 rounds of competition. Junior
Christina Koerper is right behind her with an 3123 strokes per
round average in 36 rounds of play.
DOUBLE
DUTY FOR KELLER: Colyn
Keller assumed the head coaching duties of the women's golf team
after the Bucknell Invitational on Sept. 7. Keller enters his first
season as the head coach of the men's and women's golf team. Keller
is no stranger to the program after serving as an assistant to the
team for the last three years. Keller owns Quail Valley Golf Course
in Littlestown, Pa., the home the men's and women's golf
programs.
NEC
TOURNAMENT RECORDS
Top Finishes
Place Name
Date
12th Shannon
Prettyman 2005
15th Katie
Letsch
2006
17th Christina
Koerper 2007
17th Maria
Oristaglio
2005
18th Shannon
Prettyman 2006
One Round Score Top-20
Score Name
Year
(Round)
80 Katie Letsch 2008 (1st)
81 Shannon Prettyman 2005 (1st)
83 Shannon Prettyman 2006 (2nd)
85 Caitlin Fortner 2008 (2nd)
85 Katie Letsch 2007 (2nd)
85 Katie Letsch 2006 (1st)
85 Maria Oristaglio 2006 (1st)
85 Shannon Prettyman 2006 (2nd)
86 Katie Letsch 2008 (3rd)
86 Christina Koerper 2008 (3rd)
86 Christina Koerper 2007 (3rd)
86 Katie Letsch 2006 (2nd)
86 Molly Gorman 2006 (2nd)
87 Maria Oristaglio 2006 (2nd)
88 Christina Koerper 2008 (1st)
88 Christina Koerper 2007 (1st)
88 Christina Koerper 2007 (2nd)
88 Erika Gundersen 2002 (2nd)
89 Christina Koeper 2008 (2nd)
89 Caitlin Fortner 2008 (3rd)
89 Melissa Lowder 2005 (1st)
Two Round Score Top-10
Score
Event Year
166 Shannon
Prettyman 2006
171 Katie
Letsch
2008
171 Katie
Letsch
2006
172 Shannon
Prettyman 2006
175 Caitlin
Fortner 2008
175 Shannon
Prettyman 2006
178 Christina
Koerper 2007
179 Molly
Gorman
2006
180 Rowena
Pedrena 2006
181 Maria
Oristaglio
2003
Three
Round Score Top-10
Score
Event Year
257 Katie
Letsch
2008
262 Christina
Koerper 2007
263 Christina
Koerper 2008
264 Caitlin
Fortner 2008
274 Katie
Letsch
2007
281 Molly
Gorman
2007
285 Kelly
Leonard
2007
286 Megan
Corbett
2008
288 Autumn
Serruta 2007
289 Emily
Morrison
2007
All-Time
NEC
Championship
Results
Year
Finish(Score)
1998
5th/1028
1999
6th/833
2001
6th/796
2002
7th/759
2003
6th/741
2004
6th/744
2005
6th/697
2006
5th/702
2007
7th/1093
2008
8th/1063
* 1998-1999 NEC
Championship
took place in
the fall
Team
One Round Score Top-10
Score Year
(Round)
1. 345 2006
(2nd)
2. 348 2005
(2nd)
3. 349 2005
(1st)
4. 353 2008
(1st)
5. 354 2008
(3rd)
6. 356 2008
(2nd)
7. 357 2006
(1st)
8. 360 2007
(3rd)
9. 364 2007
(2nd)
10. 364 2003
(1st)
Team
Two Round Score Top-10
Score
Year
1. 697
2005
2. 702
2006
3. 709
2008
4. 733
2007
5. 741
2003
6. 744
2004
7. 759
2002
8. 796
2001
9. 833
1999
10. 1028
1998
Team Three Round Score Top-10
Score
Year
1. 1063
2008
2. 1093
2007
