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RIVER FALLS (September 1, 2017) - The UW-Stout women's golf team looked like a team shaking off the competitive rust Friday at the season-opening UW-River Falls Triangular.
Fortunately for the Blue Devils, they won't have long to think about the outcome.
Sophomores
Madison McCambridge and
Trystin Kluess shot 84s to tie for second place, six strokes behind medalist Paige Isensee of River Falls, as the defending WIAC champions shot 345 and tied for first place with the host Falcons. Northwestern (Minn.) was third (416).
"There's not much to say," said Stout coach
Howie Samb, whose team determined its playing order for its opening weekend via a 54-hole qualifier earlier in the week that featured two promising rounds at Whitetail GC, its home course in Colfax, but culminated in a lackluster showing at Reedsburg CC, site of the annual WIAC Championships.
"I'm very disappointed in how the team has played the last couple days. Our fundamentals have been poor, some are worrying about their score instead of focusing on the shot at hand (and) others are just making stupid mistakes that we talk about not making every day we are together as a team.
"I was hoping the team would report to campus and pick up where we left off last year. That has not happened and, in fact, we are not nearly as good as a team as we were Sept. 1 last year."
McCambridge, playing in the No. 3 spot, led the five-player unit competing for Stout's team score. The Blue Devils also counted a pair of 86s from No. 1 golfer
Rachel Hernandez and No. 4
Alexa Filipiak as well as an 89 from No. 2
Marie Allo, tossing a 99 from No. 5
Haley Seifert.
Kluess competed as an individual based on scores from a 54-hole qualifier earlier in the week. Freshman
Alyssa Bee made her collegiate debut with a 96 and junior
Hannah Baker shot 97.
Collectively, Stout counted 29 bogeys, 11 double bogeys and two triples among its four scoring golfers. Hernandez had the only birdie of the day among the five golfers playing for the team.
The Blue Devils will have an opportunity to bounce back from their sluggish opener Saturday and Sunday. They will compete at the UW-Oshkosh Titan Classic at Oshkosh CC.
"I guess the good news is that we get right back out there (Saturday) at Oshkosh," Samb said. "Everyone in the lineup has to play smarter and focus on the basics or it's going to be one very long weekend."
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