Greensboro, N.C. – Western Carolina women's golf finished off a tremendously strong effort at the Aggie Invitational, matching the third-lowest round in program history with a final-round 284 on Tuesday to cruise to its second tournament championship to start the season at the par-72, 6,323-yard Players Course at Bryan Park. The Catamounts obliterated the school's 54-hole record of 872 set a year ago by 24 strokes, finishing with a program-best 848 over the three-round event.
Senior
Madison Isaacson claimed individual medalist honors on the strength of a school-record 54-hole score of 10-under par 206. The Greensboro, N.C., product was seven strokes better than the previous school benchmark of 213 shot by Amy Wooten back in the spring of 2019. Isaacson carded rounds of 69, 70, and 67, each of which either matched or bested her previous low collegiate round.
Paced by Isaacson, the Catamounts held the top five positions in the final standings with four of its scoring five and one individual amassed at the top of a Purple and Gold-laden leaderboard. Isaacson matched her best career finish after tying for the Judaculla Cup championship back in 2019. The next four in the standings for WCU – runner-up
Elizabeth Lohbauer, freshman
Brie Mapanao in third, redshirt freshman
Kayleigh Baker in fourth and individual competitor
Kaitlyn Wingnean in fifth-place – each posted the best finish and 54-hole scores of their career.
Tied with Isaacson for the individual lead after 36 holes, Lohbauer came home second with a 2-over par final round of 74 for a three-round total of 3-under par 213. The Venice, Fla., native edged out Mapanao for the runner-up spot by one stroke as the Australian-born striker finished third at 2-under par 214, matching her career-low round of 71 over the final 18 holes.
Rounding out WCU's side was Baker in fourth at 1-over par 217, finishing with an even-par round on Tuesday, and Greensboro native
Victoria Ladd in a tie for seventh with a 54-hole score of 225.
Playing unattached,
Kaitlyn Wingnean came home fifth with a score of 6-over par 222 with freshman
Sadler Miller shooting 228 to finish in a tie for 14th in a solid collegiate debut.
WCU outpaced the field by 53 total strokes as runner-up Appalachian State finished second at 901 and Alabama State was third with a score of 910. Host North Carolina A&T finished fourth at 928 with Elon rounding out the five-team field at 936. The team win was the third under head coach
Courtney Gunter including victories the first two weeks of the 2022-23 season.
Western Carolina returns to action Oct. 3-4 as it travels to Florida for the Jupiter Women's Invitational, hosted by Florida Atlantic at the Jonathan's Landing Golf Club. Keep track of everything related to Catamount women's golf and WCU Athletics through its social media outlets on Facebook (fb.com/catamountsports), Instagram (@wcu_catamounts), and Twitter (@catamounts, @CatamountWGolf).
1 – Western Carolina – 278 – 286 – 284 = 848 (-16)
1 –
Madison Isaacson – 69-70-67 = 206 (-10)
2 –
Elizabeth Lohbauer – 69-70-74 = 213 (-3)
3 –
Brie Mapanao – 71-72-71 = 214 (-2)
4 –
Kayleigh Baker – 69-76-72 = 217 (+1)
T7 –
Victoria Ladd – 74-74-77 = 225 (+9)
5 –
Kaitlyn Wingnean (ind.) – 72-75-75 = 222 (+6)
T14 –
Sadler Miller (ind.) – 77-73-78 = 228 (+12)
