DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. - Megan Corbett (Danbury, Conn./Danbury)
finished 18th to lead the Mount St. Mary's women's golf team to an
eighth-place finish at the Northeast Conference (NEC) Women's Golf
Championships on Saturday.
Corbett, who is the only player in program history to notch a
Top-10 finish at the championships, posted an 87 in the first
round, a 78 in the second round and an 86 in the final round to
card a three-round score of 251 and finish in 18th place, 26
strokes behind the medalist. It marks the seventh time in program
history a player has finished in the Top-18 in the tournament to
earn a flag. Corbett joins Shannon Prettyman as the only two
players to notch two Top-18 standings and Corbett also owns the top
finish in program history after finishing eighth in 2009. The
senior now owns the two-best marks in program history with her 78
in the second round on Friday and a 71 in the second round at the
2009 championships while her 165 two-round total is the third-best
mark and her third-round score is good for fourth-best in program
history at the NEC Championships.
Sarah Roe (Floral Park, N.Y./Floral Park Memorial) (19th place,
253), Autumn Serruta (Avon, Conn./Avon) (28th place, 260),
Christina Hall (Wall,N.J./Wall) (42nd place, 271) and Nicole Fazio
(Lower Gwynedd, Pa./Gwynedd Mercy Academy) (52nd place, 301) also
competed for the Mountaineers. Roe and Serruta also posted Top-10
three-round marks in program history at the league tournament.
Fairleigh Dickinson won its fourth-straight title with a
three-round score of 941, 36 strokes ahead of Sacred Heart (977)
while Robert Morris (987), Saint Francis (Pa.) (992), Wagner (994),
Long Island (1000), Monmouth (1007), Central Connecticut State
(1037), St. Francis (N.Y.) (1095) and Quinnipiac (1235) rounded out
the 11-team field. The Mountaineers shot 341 in the first round,
346 in the second round and a 348 in the final round to post a
score of 1035. Each of the three single-round rank in the Top-10 in
program history at the championships while the 687 two-round score
and the 1035 total are both the second-best marks in team
history.
