Tulsa Women Golfers Open Spring Season with Third Place Finish at the Texas State Invitational

Tuesday, February 12

Kyle, Texas

Tulsa

Texas State Invitational

Photo by: Jay Drowns

Tulsa Women Golfers Open Spring Season with Third Place Finish at the Texas State Invitational

2/12/2019 3:52:00 PM | Women's Golf

KYLE, Texas – Top 10 finishes by Lorena Tseng and Johanna Samuelsson led the Tulsa women's golf team to a third-place team performance at the Texas State Invitational Tuesday at the par-71 Plum Creek Golf Course.

Tulsa carded a final round 298 to finish the 54-hole event with a 23-over par score of 875, while the freshman Tseng had her fifth top-10 finish in six tournaments this season, placing third overall today.Samuelsson had a 10^th place performance for her top performance of the season.

Tseng had her best score of the three rounds with a 2-under par 69 today for a 3-under par 210 total. She sank birdie putts on the par-5 11^th hole, the par-4 14^th and the par-3 17^th hole and had just one bogey on the day. Samuelsson shot a final round score of 74 for a 3-over par 216 total score.

First-year player Sammy Liu, who joined the Tulsa program in January, had a 25^th place performance in her first collegiate event. She shot a final round 77 for a 9-over par 222. Fellow freshman ShaeLee Scarberry had a final score of 227 for 45^th place, while senior Olivia Jackson finished in 58^th place with a score of 231. Both Scarberry and Jackson turned in rounds of 78 today.

Tseng has now turned in first, second, third, fourth and ninth-place finishes in five of her first six collegiate events.

As a team, the Hurricane has finished among the top-5 in four tournaments this year, marking the most since Tulsa had four top-5 finishes for the entire 2012-13 campaign. Tulsa has four tournaments remaining in the regular season.

UTSA claimed the team title with an 854 score, while Sam Houston's State's Hannah Alberto won medalist honors with a 6-under par score of 207.

Tulsa will be in action later this month, Feb. 24-26, at the Edwin Watts Kiawah Island Classic in Charleston, South Carolina.

Team Results
1.      UTSA 284-285-285=854
2.      Kansas State               295-284-295=874
3.      Tulsa 287-290-298=875
4.      Houston Baptist           292-285-302=879
5.      Texas State                 282-288-310=880
6.      ORU 282-294-305=881
7.      Sam Houston State     292-291-299=882
8.      Cal State Fullerton      291-295-299=885
9.      UTEP 294-286-311=891
10.     Boston College          298-294-302=894
11.     Lamar                         294-297-304=895
12.     Stephen F. Austin       298-299-312=909
13.     Texas A&M-CC          296-299-316=911
14.     Little Rock                  301-298-316=915
15.     UT Arlington 308-307-302=917
16.     UTRGV                      295-309-315=919

Tulsa Individuals
3.      Lorena Tseng 70-71-69=210
10.     Johanna Samuelsson   73-69-74=216
29.     Sammy Liu 71-74-77=222
T48. ShaeLee Scarberry       76-73-78=227
59.     Olivia Jackson 77-76-78=231

Top-5 Individuals
1.      Hannah Alberto, Sam Houston          70-68-69=207 (-6)
2.      Julie Houston, UTSA 71-68-69=208 (-5)
3.      Lorena Tseng, Tulsa 70-71-69=210 (-3)
4.      Madison Kidd, UTSA 71-72-69=212 (-1)
T5.    Elsa Lundquist, Cal Sate Fullerton     70-73-71=214 (+1)
T5.    Sarah White, Texas State 71-70-73=214 (+1)