HERSHEY, Pa. --Â
Brooke Graham (Carlisle, Pa./Boiling Springs) shot a tournament best 75 to win her sixth career tournament and the Kutztown University women's golf team dominated for its second team title in two tournaments this fall at Tuesday's Elizabethtown Fall Invitational.
Graham collected three birdies for the second consecutive tournament and added nine pars to hold off teammates
Eva Moawad (Harrisburg, Pa./Central Dauphin) and
Livia Andov (Pekanbaru, Indonesia/) in a top three sweep of the leaderboard for the Golden Bears. The senior started her round with five consecutive pars before a birdie at the par 4, 359-yard seventh. Graham also had birdies on the par 4, 343-yard 11th and par 5, 485-yard 14th, while shooting 2-over par on both the front nine (38) and back nine (37).
Playing close to her hometown of Harrisburg, Moawad compiled a team-high 11 pars on the way to her career low round of 81 (+10) and runner-up finish, another career best. Moawad had a streak of four straight pars between holes 11-14 during a 4-over back nine.
Andov matched her career-best finish of third by carding an 11-over 82 on the strength of eight pars. She put together a run of four pars in five holes between 13-17 to finish strong.
Freshman
Abby McCaffrey (Leesport, Pa./Schuylkill Valley) tied for sixth in the 20-player field with an 86 (+15). The Leesport, Pa., native sank birdie putts at the par 5, 412-yard sixth and par 4, 381-yard 18th. She also had six pars for her second top 10 showing in as many tournaments.
Madison Gibson (Cinnaminson, N.J./Cinnaminson) rounded out KU's lineup with a 93 (+22) on the 5,535-yard, par 71 Hershey Country Club East Course. She ended her round with four pars.
None of the four opposing teams could mount a serious challenge to the Golden Bears. Kutztown won its second straight tournament to open the season under first-year head coach
Glen McCartney by 44 shots with a 324 (+40).
Kean finished second at 368 (+84) and Alvernia took third at 396 (+112).
The Golden Bears return to Central Pennsylvania for Sunday's Dickinson Fall Invitational in Graham's hometown of Carlisle at the Carlisle Barracks Golf Course.
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