the Informer

This past weekend The University of Hartford Women’s golf team finished fourth overall out of 13 total teams in the 2011 Eastern College Athletic Conference Division I Women’s Golf Championship at the Twisted Dune Country Club in Egg Harbor, N.J.

With a total two-day score of 648, all but one Hawk saw improvements from their day one scores on Sunday Oct. 2 to their day 2 scores on Monday, Oct. 3, including a margin of 13, to allow Hartford to finish behind Hofstra’s third place 638, last year champion and only returning team Sacred Heart’s second place 620 two-day score and Dartmouth College’s tournament winning 611 two-day score.

Hartford’s Sarah Sideranko lead her Hawk squad with a 155 two-day score, good enough for seventh overall followed by Emily Lin with a 157 two day score, good enough to tie for ninth overall.

Third place for Hartford went to Marissa Kallaugher who finished T20 overall while fourth went to Aubrey Ungvarsky who finished T33 and Kirsten LaPointe who finished 50 overall.

As a whole, the Hartford team combined for a 322 day one score which sat them at sixth overall at the time, 24 strokes off from the leading Big Green, and was composed of Sideranko’s 77 score, Linn’s and Kallaugher’s 84 scores, Ungvarsky’s 87 score and LaPointe’s 91 score.

Day two saw Hartford’s Sideranko’s 78 final-day finish joined by Hawk teammate’s improved second go around scores with Linn’s 73, Kallaugher’s 81 score, Ungvarsky’s 84 score and LaPointe’s 87 score for a 316 total second round team score.

Fellow New England Region schools rounded out the other comepetitors involved in the field of play with fifth overall Central Connecticut State, sixth overall Farleigh Dickinson University, seventh overall Fairfield University, eighth overall Mount Saint Mary’s University, ninth overall Wagner College, tenth overall New York St.- Albany, eleventh overall Boston University, twelfth overall Quinnipiac University, thirteenth overall Holy Cross College and fourteenth overall Saint Francis College-N.Y.

Women’s golf will return to the Garden State on Oct. 14-15 to compete in their next 36-hole event as part of the Rutgers Invitational at Rutgers University Golf Club in Piscataway.