Tuesday, September 20
Flossmoor, IL
All Day
Southern Illinois University
at
Loyola Chicago Rambler Invitational
Cusumano wins Loyola Fall Invitational
09/20/2016 | 8:21:00 | Women's Golf
Southern finishes third behind three top-15 finishers
Senior Brooke Cusumano continued her strong start to the season with a medalist performance at the Loyola Fall Invitational in Flossmoor, Ill. It was the first win of the season for Cusumano and the second of her career. She shot a 76 in the final round to leapfrog Loyola's Morgan Brown for first. Cusumano was the only player in the field to shoot in the 70s in all three rounds.
It was the third straight top-2 finish for Cusumano. She is coming off of back-to-back runner-up finishes at the UIC Fall Invite and the Murray State Drake Creek Invitational. It was Cusumano's first win since the Murray State Invitational last September.
As a team, Southern finished tied for third behind Butler and Loyola. The Salukis were 17 strokes ahead of fourth place Indiana State. Southern was led by Cusumano and sophomore Sun Jung. Jung finished in ninth place after showing improvement throughout the three rounds of the tournament. Senior Kristie Yang finished tied for 13th with a three round score of 247.
Butler and Loyola finished the tournament tied at the end of play and had to go to a scorecard playoff to determine a winner. Butler's fifth player, Rachel Gathof, shot 253 in the tournament and outscored Loyola's fifth player, Natalie Meyers, to clinch the win for the Bulldogs.
Southern will take a week off before hosting the rest of the Missouri Valley Conference at the MVC Preview at Dalhousie Golf Club in Cape Girardeau, Missouri, on Oct. 3 and 4.
Final Leaderboard
T1 Butler 314 330 319 963 (Won in a tiebreaker)
T1 Loyola 324 323 316 963
3 Southern Illinois 318 330 320 968
4 Indiana State 339 327 319 985
5 Chicago State 326 336 336 998
6 Evansville 333 332 335 1000
7 Illinois-Chicago 350 335 332 1017
8 Wisconsin-Green Bay 337 342 349 1028
Team scores
1 Brooke Cusamano (1) 79 77 76 232
9 Sun Jung (4) 82 81 80 243
T13 Kristie Yang (5) 78 87 82 247
T19 Alice Ho (2) 81 87 82 250
21 Hanna Netisingha (3) 80 85 86 251
It was the third straight top-2 finish for Cusumano. She is coming off of back-to-back runner-up finishes at the UIC Fall Invite and the Murray State Drake Creek Invitational. It was Cusumano's first win since the Murray State Invitational last September.
As a team, Southern finished tied for third behind Butler and Loyola. The Salukis were 17 strokes ahead of fourth place Indiana State. Southern was led by Cusumano and sophomore Sun Jung. Jung finished in ninth place after showing improvement throughout the three rounds of the tournament. Senior Kristie Yang finished tied for 13th with a three round score of 247.
Butler and Loyola finished the tournament tied at the end of play and had to go to a scorecard playoff to determine a winner. Butler's fifth player, Rachel Gathof, shot 253 in the tournament and outscored Loyola's fifth player, Natalie Meyers, to clinch the win for the Bulldogs.
Southern will take a week off before hosting the rest of the Missouri Valley Conference at the MVC Preview at Dalhousie Golf Club in Cape Girardeau, Missouri, on Oct. 3 and 4.
Final Leaderboard
T1 Butler 314 330 319 963 (Won in a tiebreaker)
T1 Loyola 324 323 316 963
3 Southern Illinois 318 330 320 968
4 Indiana State 339 327 319 985
5 Chicago State 326 336 336 998
6 Evansville 333 332 335 1000
7 Illinois-Chicago 350 335 332 1017
8 Wisconsin-Green Bay 337 342 349 1028
Team scores
1 Brooke Cusamano (1) 79 77 76 232
9 Sun Jung (4) 82 81 80 243
T13 Kristie Yang (5) 78 87 82 247
T19 Alice Ho (2) 81 87 82 250
21 Hanna Netisingha (3) 80 85 86 251
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