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Brown Invitational
QU Women's Golf's Nicole Scola Finishes 3rd and Breaks Program Record At 2015 Brown Bear Spring Invitational
4/13/2015 12:00:00 AM | Women's Golf
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Quinnipiac women's golf sophomore Nicole Scola (Westerly, Rhode Island) finished third - one stroke off the lead - at the 2015 Brown Bear Spring Invitational at Metacomet Country Club in East Providence, Rhode Island. Quinnipiac finished 10th out of 16 teams. Scola's 145 for the two-day event is a Quinnipiac program record for a 36-hole tournament. Scola previously set the mark with a 147 at last season's Dartmouth Invitational before shooting a 146 at the Quinnipiac Classic in October.
"It was another fairly good day today," head coach John O'Connor said. "Nicole [Scola] continued to play well, finishing third at 145. The wind got the best of the rest of the team. Emily [Ribbins] did pretty well with an 81."
Yale won the event after shooting the two lowest rounds of the tournament, followed by Princeton, Brown, Boston University, Pennsylvania and Fairleigh Dickinson. LIU Brooklyn, Albany, Brown and Dartmouth finished ahead of Quinnipiac, who placed ahead of Central Connecticut State, Hofstra, Sacred Heart, Hartford, Siena and Hofstra.
Scola followed a first-round 72 with a 73 on the final 18 holes at Metacoment, highlighted by one of five eagles in the entire tournament on Hole No.14. Scola's combined 145 for the two-day event was a season-best for the Bobcats in 36-hole tournament play this year.
Scola has now finished in the top three in four of her last six tournaments, and in the top six in five of her last eight times out. The second-year Bobcat was also one of five players to shoot par or better on 24 or more out of the 36 holes for the tournament.
Emily Ribbins (Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands) tied for 42nd place, out of 86 golfers, after combined for a 160 (79-81) for the 36-hole event. Estefania Morales (Caracas, Venezuela) finished tied for 62nd at 166 (79-87) while Jenn Whaley (Farmington, Connecticut) tied for 66th at 167 (83-84).
"We dropped a few stops, but I'm still encouraged. We're moving in the right direction and I'm looking forward to the MAAC Championship," O'Connor said.
Quinnipiac returns to action at the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference Championship on Apr. 24-26 at Disney's Magnolia Course in Lake Buena Vista, Florida.
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