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Women's Golf Hosts Rutgers Invitational -Knights Win, Take 1st, 2nd and 2 Tie 3rd

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After several years where the event wasn't held, Women's Golf hosts the tournament at the Rutgers Golf Course for the 2nd year in a row. The field has been expanded from 9 to 17 teams to I assume bring more teams from Pa and the tri state area. Technically there's 18 if you count Lafayette who have 1 player entered as an Individual

Last year, the #89 at the time Knights ran away with the championship, winning by 26 strokes against, being honest, a weak field. This is more of the same although at #118 RU hasn't performed as well as last year. After RU, the highest ranked is Dartmouth at #143, followed by #175 Seton Hall, #186 Quinnipiac, and #196 St Johns. The rest of the 17 team field such as Monmouth, FDU, LIU, and Lehigh are ranked over 200.

Rutgers returns 4 members who competed last year. Soph Lorena Rossettin finished 5th and Sr Lucrezia Rossettin finished 12th. Playing as Individuals, So Emily James finished T6 and So Krystal Li T21. Lost to graduation are last year's tourney champion Rikki Nordvik, Leigha Devine T6, and Cathi Graf 8th.

Rutgers Lineup will be Sr Lucrezia Rossettin, So Lorena Rossettin, RSSo Grace Lu, Fr Joline Truong, and So Emily James. The rest of the roster, Grad Kayla Diaz, So Krystal Li, and Fr Judy Amano will compete as individuals.

Like last year, this year's edition could be affected by weather with, last I checked, rain predicted on and off all weekend.
 
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After the 1st Round, Rutgers is leading, holding a 4 stroke lead over 2nd place Quinnipiac.

Leading Rutgers was Soph Emily James, shooting an Even Par 71. James's round consisted of 4 Birdies, 2 Bogeys, and 1 Double. Like the team. she also finished Round 1 in 1st Place in the 92 player field. James holds a 1 stroke lead over Seton Hall's Marta Aguilar. Other Rutgers scores were RSSO Grace Lu with a 74, Fr Joline Truong a 76, Sr Lucrezia Rossettin a 77, and Soph Lorena Rossettin an 80. Playing as individuals,Soph Krystal Li shot 78, Fr Judy Amano 81, and Grad Kayla Diaz 83.

Top 5 Teams

1. #118 RUTGERS...............+14
2. #187 Quinnipiac............+18
3. #143 Dartmouth...........+19
4. #175 Seton Hall.............+25
5. #216 Merrimack............+28

Round 2 is underway.
 
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The 2nd Round saw the Knights extend their lead to 20 strokes. With a 9 Over Par, RU was the only team to shoot better than 20 Over. RSSO Grace Lu (Edison, NJ) led the way with a 1 Over 72. Following her were Fr Joline Truong and So Lorena Rossettin with 2 Over 73's. First Round leader So Emily James shot 75i, while Sr Lucrezia Rossettin shot 77. Playing as Individuals Fr Judy Amano shot 74, So Krystal Li 79 and Grad Kayla Diaz 80.

The race for the Individual title has a lot of Scarlet with James and Lu currently tied for 1st with Truong tied for 3rd, 3 strokes back.

Top 5 Teams

1. #118 RUTGERS.........................+23
2. #187 Quinnipiac......................+43
3. #175 Seton Hall.......................+46
4. #243 Albany..............................+51
5. #143 Dartmouth......................+52

Top 5 Individuals

T1. Emily James (RUTGERS)..........+4
T1. Grace Lu (RUTGERS)
T3. Joline Truong (RUTGERS).......+7
T3. Michelle Yang (FDU
T5. Caroline Chung (Dartmouth..+8
T5. Helen Brodahl (Stonehill)

Final Round tomorrow morningat 8:30 weather permitting
 
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Today was more of the same as the Knights inproved their score every round. The team shot a 5 Over 289 to finish the 3 Rounds 28 Over Par, 30 Strokes ahead of 2nd Place Seton Hall. In last year's event, RU shot 24 Over and 26 strokes ahead of Albany in 2nd.

This is the team's 3rd Tournament Championship in the past 51 weeks. Congrats to the team.

There was a really tight battle for the Individual Championship, Emily James fought off challenges from teammates all round. She and Grace Lu were tied at 1 point with Joline Truong 1 stroke and Lorena Rossettin 2 behind. Despite a Bogey on the 18th, James, the sophmore from Wales, was able to hold on just as she had for most of the 54 holes. Her 73 today gave her a 3 Round score of 6 Over, 290. Joline Truong shot 1 Over 72 for an 8 Over and 292 total. Lorena Rossettin improved her position 10 places shooting a team best 2 Under Par 69, tying Grace Lu, who shot 76, at 293. Team Capt Lucrezia Rossettin shot 76, finishing T20.

Playing as individuals Krystal Li shot 75 and finished T29, Judy Amano shot 78 finishing T33 and Kayla Diaz also shot 78 and finished T53.

This was a tourney Rutgers should expect to win but with a Freshman, 2 Sophs, and 1 RSSO all in the Top 4, you'd hope this is a boost to the young team's confidence going forward like last year when they went on to tie for their best ever finish in the B1G Championship, then win the Golfweek National Invitational.

Top 5 Teams

1. #118 RUTGERS.......................+28
2. #175 Seton Hall.....................+58
3. #143 Dartmouth....................+61
4. #187 Quinnipiac.....................+63
5. #239 Sacred Heart...............+65

Top 5 Individuals

1. Emily James (RUTGERS).................+6
2. Joline Truong (RUTGERS)..............+8
T3 Grace LU (RUTGERS)....................+9
T3. Lorena Rossettin (RUTGERS)...+9
5. Two tied at +12

Next up is the Therese Hession Invitational at Ohio State's GC. this coming weekend. Emtered along with Rutgers and OSU are the B1G's Indiana, Wisconsin, and Michigan St. After that comes the B1G Championship in Havre de Grace, MD
 
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