KFDM COOP Posted September 8, 2006 Report Posted September 8, 2006 http://lamarcardinals.cstv.com/ Lady Cardinals Golf Opens 2006-07 Season at Centenary Fall Classic Lamar has won two straight and three of the last four Southland Conference women's golf championships. Sept. 8, 2006 BOSSIER CITY, La. - The Lamar University women's golf team, who is coming off its second straight Southland Conference championship, opens the 2006-07 season today and Sunday at the Centenary Fall Classic at Stonebridge Golf Club. The tournament field includes host Centenary, Chicago State, Louisiana-Monroe, McNeese State, Nicholls State and Oral Roberts. The field will play 18 holes today and 18 holes Sunday for a 36-hole tournament. Stonebridge GC, which is a Fred Couples/Gene Bates design, plays to a par-72 at 6,900-yards. Lamar will send all six golfers to the season-opening tournament led by sophomore Therese Nilsson and junior Hillary Zeigler. Nilsson, who transferred to Lamar at the semester break last January from the University of New Orleans, won two of the four events she played in for the Lady Cardinals. A native of Sweden, Nilsson won medalist honors at the UTSA Rowdy Round-Up and the SLC championship. She led the team with a 75.33 spring scoring average over 20 rounds, which included a low-round of 1-under par 71 at the CenturyTel Bobcat Classic. Nilsson was named SLC freshman of the year and first-team all-SLC. A native of Livingston, Zeigler was second on the team last year with a 76.91 season scoring average over 34 rounds and was named second-team all-SLC. She posted a pair of Top 5 finishes in the fall, placing second at the SHSU/Ellingson Waterwood Classic and third at the Chris Banister Gamecock Classic. She posted three Top 10 finishes in the spring, culminating with a fifth-place finish at the SLC championships. Also back for the Lady Cardinals are sophomores Channing Norton, Whitney Doverspike and Adrienne Overton. A Cleveland native, Norton posted an 82.00 season scoring average over 23 rounds last season. Her best tournament was a 15th place finish at the Lady Cardinal Invitational. Doverspike, a native of Carrollton, posted an 82.13 season scoring average over 23 rounds last season. She posted a season-best seventh-place finish at the Lady Cardinal Invitational. An Austin native, Overton played in three spring tournaments last spring after joining the team at the semester break. Bonnie Howard, a junior transfer from Oklahoma City University, is the team's lone newcomer. A Carrollton native, Howard helped OCU win back-to-back NAIA national championships in 2005 and 2006. She posted a runner-up finish at the 2005 NAIA national tournament.
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