Eastern Michigan Athletics
Monday, February 9
Lakewood Ranch, Fla.
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MAC Match Play
Photo by: EMU Athletics/Randy Mascharka
Women's Golf's Spring Season Begins with Match Play Challenge
2/6/2015 3:30:00 PM | Women's Golf
No. 1-seeded Eagles open two-day tournament against No. 8-seeded Chippewas
Live Scoring.
LAKEWOOD RANCH, Fla. (EMUEagles.com) — The Eastern Michigan University women's golf team returns to action for its spring stanza on Monday, Feb. 9, when it travels to Lakewood Ranch, Fla. to tee off in the Mid-American Match Play Challenge. The Mid American Match Play Challenge is tied for the earliest spring season start in program history as well as just the second time the squad participated in a match play format tournament. The tournament is hosted by Bowling Green State University and takes place at Lakewood Ranch Golf & Country Club.
The two-day event will consist of 54 holes of match play competition. Teams are seeded one through eight based upon the Golfstat rankings and then placed into a bracket. All teams are guaranteed three matches with losing teams from the first and second rounds continuing to compete in a consolation bracket. Each team match will consist of six individual matches.
The first round will begin Monday at 8 a.m. with a shotgun start, followed by continuous play for the second round. The third and final round will be played Tuesday, Feb. 10, with an 8 a.m. start.
There will be a total of seven Mid-American Conference teams participating in the tournament, including EMU, BGSU, Akron, Central Michigan, Northern Illinois, Ohio and Western Michigan. Also joining the action is IPFW.
In the first round, the top-seeded Eagles will be matched with the Chippewas of Central Michigan. Live scoring and tournament results will be available at GolfStat.com.
First Round Pairings
No. 1 Eastern Michigan vs. No. 8 Central Michigan
No. 4 Northern Illinois vs. No. 5 Ohio
No. 2 Western Michigan vs. No. 7 IPFW
No. 3 Bowling Green vs. No. 6 Akron
Individual Seedings based on GolfWeek Rankings
1) Kelsey Murphy
2) Karyn Lee Ping
3) Lois Schoof
4) Thelma Beck
5) Kylie Raines
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