Monday, February 12
Kyle, Texas (Plum Creek G.C.)
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Texas State Invitational
Women’s Golf Begins Spring Season Monday at Texas State Invitational
2/11/2018 7:24:00 PM | Women's Golf
Ladyjacks compete against 16 other teams in Kyle, Texas, including six from the Sun Belt Conference and five Southland Conference rivals
NACOGDOCHES, Texas – The Stephen F. Austin women's golf team will begin its spring championship season Monday morning competing in the 2018 Texas State Invitational held Monday and Tuesday, Feb. 12-13, at the Plum Creek Golf Course in Kyle, Texas. The Ladyjacks, who have not seen the links for competition since Oct. 31, 2017, will take on the par-71, 6,059-yard course among a tournament field of 17 total teams.
Five fellow Southland Conference teams join SFA at the Texas State Invitational, including Central Arkansas, Lamar, Houston Baptist, Texas A&M-Corpus Christi and McNeese. Six of the other teams competing are representatives of the Sun Belt Conference – host Texas State, Arkansas State, Georgia Southern, Little Rock, Louisiana-Monroe and UT Arlington – while UTSA, ranked 57th nationally according to Golfstat.com, James Madison, UTEP, North Dakota State and UT Rio Grande Valley complete the tournament field.
The two-day, 54-hole invitational will get underway Monday at 9:30 a.m. with a shotgun start. The first day of play will feature two rounds as Tuesday's final round will tee off at 8:30 a.m. The Ladyjacks have been paired up with Texas A&M-Corpus Christi and UT Arlington for Monday's opening round and will tee off from holes 12-15. SFA's lineup consists of redshirt juniors Jamee Jorgensen (Boerne, Texas) and Erica Lautensack (Arlington, Texas), sophomores Alexandra Batista (Trophy Club, Texas) and Paola Cortes (Allen, Texas) and freshman Alexis Szewczyk (McKinney, Texas).
A year ago, the Ladyjacks finished fourth out of 16 teams at the Texas State Invitational with a 65-over 917, their best tournament placement during the spring. Lautensack tied for fourth at the event with an 8-over 221 as she shot a 1-under 70 in the final round, tying her lowest round of the season.
SFA will be competing in its sixth tournament of 2017-18 after wrapping up its fall slate of play with an 11th-place tie at the Little Rock Women's Golf Classic. The Ladyjacks averaged a 313.93 per round as a team during the fall through 15 rounds and registered a season-best third-place finish at the Sam Houston State Bearkat Invitational with a 58-over 910.
Both Lautensack and Batista led SFA in the fall with a 78.00 per round scoring average and a top-10 finish each. Jorgensen tied for 11th at the Bearkat Invitational and averaged a 79.40 per round through the five tournaments.
Live scoring of the Little Rock Women's Golf Classic can be followed via Golfstat.com.
Stay tuned to SFAJacks.com, as well as SFA's social media platforms, for complete coverage of Ladyjack golf throughout the spring.
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