The Mississippi State women’s golf team got its first taste of spring semester action this week, finishing second in the team standings at the UCF Challenge at Eagle Greek GC in Orlando, Florida, earlier this week.
The team posted a collective score of 20-under par, four strokes short of tournament winners Auburn and five ahead of third-place UCF, the tournament hosts.
Of the six Bulldog golfers competing at the tournament three finished under par with one finishing even.
Avery Weed, the tournament runner-up in the individual standings, recorded three rounds under par for a final score of -8, finishing one better than teammate Moa Stridh and two better than Ines Belchior.
Stridh and Belchior, both freshmen members of the team, posted new career bests at the tournament. Belchior finished in a tie for seventh place while Stridh tied for 10th in the individual standings, with both players shooting par or better in all three rounds for the first time as Bulldogs.
The team, currently ranked 18th in the country, is still looking for its first tournament win, but has two individual champions already this season. Weed won the Blessings Collegiate Invitational at Arkansas and Samantha Whateley won the Mason Rudolph Championship at Vanderbilt during the fall semester.
MSU will be back in the Sunshine State for tournament play again next month at the Moon Golf Invitational in Melbourne, beginning on Feb. 16.
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