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  • Page 9 WESTERN CAROLINIAN socio onsenonnnentannsetpeneisonesintinstecncencceisentenaettneentieecnuanen Sip O RTS BAYER 26 WCU WOMEN's GOLF TEAM WOMEN'S SOCCER TEAM HAS STRONG WINS GREAT SMOKIES INTERCOLLEGIATE TOURNAMENT By Placing Three Players in Tourna- ment Top Ten, Cat- amounts Grab Title By Kaitlyn Mullis Staff Writer The Western Caro- lina womens golf team cap- tured the team title at the tenth-annual Great Smokies Intercollegiate Tournament on Tuesday, Sept. 16. It was their sixth ever team tourna- ment title and their first since 2006. The tournament be- gan on Sunday, Sept. 14 and wrapped up Tuesday, Sept. 16. The team showed great promise during the open- ing round Monday, Sept. 15 by breaking a three-year-old tournament single-round scoring record by two strokes, scoring a 284. Leading the team on Monday were fresh- man Blaire Minter, who shot 30 on the back nine and 37 on the front for a two-under-par score of 70. Junior Desiree Karlsson tied Minters score of 70 and junior Elin Mick- elsson followed with a score of 71. All three golfers stood in the top ten at the end of the day, with Minter and Karls-. son tied for fourth and Mick- elsson tied for eighth place. Tuesdays championship round opened with overcast skies, cool temperatures and the threat of rain, but the tournament finished without delay as WCU continue posting successful tourna- ment scores. fe Western junior Mickelsson and freshman Blaire Minter finished the tournament in a three-way tie for fourth with Samfords Katelyn Stamier, with a final score of 142. Also finishing in the top ten for the Catamounts was junior De- siree Karlsson, who tied for seventh with a two-day to- tal of 143. Freshman Rachel Nelson and sophomore Jose- fine Sundh had strong scores for WCU, rounding out the top finishers for the team. Placing in first was Lorie Worren of Belmont College with a score of 69 for the first round and a total score of 138. One stroke behind, in second place, was Woffords Sarah Hurt. In third place was Tennessee Techs Dianna Carson, scoring 141. Western Carolina finished the tournament in first place with a score of 578. Confer- ence member Wofford proved to be the challenger of the tournament to the Lady Cata- mounts, who have won this tournament six times out of the past seven years. Wofford scored 583 to place second. The total team score of 578 ranked as the second-lowest round in tournament history, two strokes off the all-time record of 576 shot in 2005 by WCU, a record that won the championship title. Western Carolina and Wofford were followed by two-time champion, Tennes- see Tech, who posted a total score of 586 to place third. Samford finished fourth, two strokes back at 588, with Winthrop scoring 589 to fin- ish fifth. WCU is off to its best start since the 2004-2005 season with a runner-up finish in the Intercollegiate Tournament. The team returns to action on Oct. 11-14 at UNC Greens- boros Starmount Fall Clas- sic, being held at the Star- mount Forrest Country Club in Greensboro, NC. hi Draper! Valley Hitercollegiate he * Tournament on Sept"9and")" ~------the-wir ir the Great Smokies | SHOWING IN YALE SOCCER CLASSIC Weekend Tournament Ends with Catamounts 2-4 on the Season By Kaitlyn Mullis Staff Writer The Western Carolina womens soccer team trav- eled out to New Haven, Con- necticut for the Yale Soccer Classic on Sep 12, taking one of the two matches. The team faltered in the first game, suffering a 3-1 loss to the Yale Bulldogs after the opposing team scored all of their goals in the first half. A little over ten minutes into the game, Yale senior and team captain Emma Whitfield scored the first goal of the match, also her first on the season, after receiving a cross from fellow teammates Maggie Westfal and Becky Brown. The Bulldogs followed the first goal with another nine minutes later, with Brown, a sophomore, receiving a pass from Whitfield and making a goal, allowing the score to be 2-0. Yale struck again less than ninety seconds _ later. Catamount keeper Katie Ja- cobs made the initial save be- fore Brown followed up with a rebound shot which made it in. Two minutes into the sec- ond half of the game, junior forward Nikki Collins made a play down the right side of the field, cut to the middle, and scored past Yale goal- keeper Adelaide Gay after receiving a pass from junior Nikki Lombardo. The score remained the same for the re- mainder of the game, putting the Catamounts at a record of 1-4 and setting them up for a match against Sacred Heart University on Sunday, Sept. 14. Western took command of the game early with a goal scored by freshman Kayla Beauduy after she received a pass from sophomore Kel- lie Oberholtzer and shot the ball into the right corner of the net. It was Beauduys first collegiate goal. A half hour later, Lombardo took a cross from junior Bri Cunningham to improve the score to 2-0. The first half ended with the Catamounts earning a 6-to-4 shot advantage, with Sacred Heart having two op- portunities to put themselves on the board. Sophomore goalkeeper Caitlin Williams held the defense with two saves. The Sacred Heart Pioneers scored a goal ten minutes into the second half with a twenty-five-yard shot from senior midfielder Britney Du- pee. Playing with a defensive mentality, Western held the Pioneers to only three more shot opportunities in the half, and finished with an 11-to-7 shot advantage. The final score was 3-1, with the Catamounts improv- ing to 2-4 on the season, while Sacred Heart dropped to 0-6. The Yale Soccer Classic came after two dramatic sea- son opening games for the Catamounts. In the first game of the season, the womens soccer team battled Butler on Sept. 5 in double over- time, beating them 1-0 with a goal scored by junior Shan- non Fowkes. The goal came about halfway through the second overtime. The next game on Sept. 7 against Belmont University produced just as much thrill as the first, going into double overtime for the second day of the weekend. The result unfortunately did not pro- duce another win though for the Lady Catamounts. The score was 2-1 by the end of the game, with Westerns sole goal being shot from Fowkes. We have been incorpo- rating to the team to play the 90 full minutes and today I thought we did a tremendous job in the first half, said head coach Tammy DeCesare. But in the second half we gave a good team too many opportunities. The Catamounts begin play in the Southern Conference tomorrow, Sept. 26 at The Citadel in Charleston, South Carolina. They will play the College of Charleston, also a conference opponet, on Sept. 28. E.J. WHITMIRE STADIUM/BOB WATERS FIELD TURF REPLACEMENT BEGINS By Justin Caudell Sports Editor By the time the Catamounts have their next home football game on Saturday, Oct. 4 against Samford, they will be playing on a new turf. Hours following Western Carolina's home game against the Liberty Flames on Satur- day, Sept. 13, the turf replace- ment project at E.J. Whitmire Stadium/Bob Waters Field began under the lights. Sur- veyors took the field just be- fore 10:45 pm that night, with the heavy machinery rolling in around 11:00 pm. The first piece of old turf was peeled back from the southwest end (Ramsey Center, West side stands) of the field with the visiting sidelines rolled up end zone to end zone to begin the process. Carolina Green Corpo- ration of Indian Hill, North Carolina will handle remoy- ing the old turf, as well as the installation of the new artifi- cal playing surface. Western's new turf came from an overseas company, Desso Sports Systems, which is a leader in artificial sur- face fields in Europe. The company has provided turfs for football installations at schools such as Oklahoma State, Wyoming and Northern Colorado, as well as Denver and Green Bay in the Nation- al Football League (NFL). Started. The The turf was supposed to be in place for the Catamounts first home game of the season against Shorter, but the ar- rival of the turf was delayed by international travel and customs, which prompted officials to delay the installation until after the start of the season. As of press time, the old turf and previous base materi- als had al- ready been removed and the roll- ing out of the new turf material completion of the proj- ect was ex- pected to be some time the week of Monday, Sept: 225. - Carolina Green Corp., which was contracted in 2003 to handle the field. reno- vations at WCU Base- ball's Chil- dress Field/Hennon Stadium, has a web cam that shows the progess of the field comple- tion and a time lapse of the removal of the old turf in place. The web cam 1s mounted atop the press box at Whitmire Stadium and can be viewed on Carolina Green's web site at www.cgcfields. com by clicking on the link - for Renovations to Western Carolina University - View Project Progress. Acomplete look at the new turf, as well as feelings from WCU football fans, will ap- pear in the next edition of the Western Carolinan. Photo by Danielle
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