The Montana girls’s golf workforce closed the Girl Thunderbird Invitational with a 313 on Saturday because the Grizzlies wrapped up their spring opener on the Sunbrook Golf Course in St. George, Utah.
Montana tied for thirteenth out of 16 groups in its first of 4 spring tournaments main as much as subsequent month’s Large Sky Convention Championship. The Griz will return to motion subsequent weekend on the Pink Rocks Invitational in Sedona, Ariz.
“I’m actually inspired,” stated coach Kris Nord, whose workforce shot rounds of 311, 310 and 313 in St. George. It was Montana’s finest 54-hole spring opener since 2018. “We’re not going to take a seat again and use being from Montana and never being on turf as an excuse. We need to hit the bottom working and go carry out. That’s the purpose going to Sedona subsequent week.”
The Grizzlies had been led by senior Tricia Joyce (77-72-76), who was Montana’s high finisher for the primary time for the reason that Battle at Previous Works within the fall of 2021. She completed twenty first general.
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“She deserves it. She’s labored arduous. She had some hiccups at this time that sometimes would have thrown her off observe and he or she simply hung in there and completed her final 5 holes at 1-under,” Nord stated. “She had all-in-all an awesome event. It was good to see.”
Jessica Ponce (78-81-77) tied for 63rd, Madison Cecil (78-78-81) completed seventieth and Kylie Franklin (78-79-82) and Raina Ports (79-81-79) tied for 72nd. Ponce led Montana with 37 pars, simply 5 off the event lead, however she was the lone Grizzly to go 54 holes with out a birdie.
“Jess hit the ball fairly darn properly all three days. She simply couldn’t make many putts,” stated Nord, who watched two of his golfers begin their closing day with a double bogey. “Actually tough begin for a few our children, beginning out with some large numbers, so it was a matter of enjoying gap by gap and hanging on. We’re grinding higher, however we’ve to not have large holes. We’ve bought to eradicate doubles and triples. That would be the focus.”
Wyoming (290-302-293) and California Baptist (296-297-292) tied for the workforce lead, with Boise State (293-303-291) two strokes again. Cal Baptist’s Samantha Dizon (74-67-71) completed 4-under, the lone golfer to play 54 holes beneath par.