QU Women's Golf Completes First Round of Towson Tignanelli Invitaitonal In 7th Place

Sunday, September 18

Eagles Nest Country Club - Phoenix, Md.

10:00 AM

Quinnipiac University

Towson Tignanelli Invitational

QU Women's Golf Completes First Round of Towson Tignanelli Invitaitonal In 7th Place

9/18/2016 7:18:00 PM | Women's Golf

Towson Tignanelli Individual First Round Results Towson Tignanelli Team First Round Results

By: QU Sports Information

PHOENIX, Maryland – The Quinnipiac University women's golf team completed the first round of the Towson Tignanelli Invitational in seventh place out of 13 teams. Quinnipiac sophomore Luciana Tobia-Palza (La Paz, Bolivia) and freshman Alexandra Sazhin (New Fairfield, Connecticut) both finished tied for 19 th out of 71 golfers.

Towson led the field with a 295 (+7) followed by Lehigh (300, +12), Lamar (306, +18), Bethune-Cookman (309, +21), Navy (310, +22) and Longwood (315, +27). The Bobcats slid into seventh place, followed by Central Connecticut State (320, +32), Saint Francis (Pa.) and Monmouth (322, +34), Fairfield (327, +29), Hampton (349, +61) and Delaware State (358, +70).

Tobia-Palza was +5 through the first nine holes at Eagles Nest Country Club, opening with a bogey before producing a birdie on hole No. 3 that was sandwiched by pars on holes No. 2 and 4. She followed with bogeys on holes No. 5-8, and would start the back nine with bogeys on holes No. 10 and 11. From there, Tobia-Palza was lights-out, birdying the Par 5 No. 12 before rolling to six-straight pars to finish at +1 on the back nine.

Sazhin got out to a hot start with pars on holes No. 1 through 6, and also No. 9, but bogeys on holes No. 7 and 8 put her at +2 through the first nine holes of the day. After making the turn, a birdie on hole No. 11 highlighted a seven-hole run in which she shot par or better. She finished with a double-bogey on hole No. 18 to shoot a +3 on the back nine and a +7 for the day.

Julia Kemmling (Berlin, Connecticut) finished tied for 34^th with an 81 (+9) while Abby Chase (Beaver Dam, Wisconsin) finished tied for 41^st with an 82 (+10). Nicole Scola (Westerly, Rhode Island) finished in 63^rd place after shooting an 88 (+16) and Emily Ribbins (Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands) – playing as an individual – finished tied for 54^th with an 84 (+12).

The Bobcats will play the final 18 holes of the Towson Tignanelli Invitational on Monday, Sept. 19.