LAKEWOOD RANCH, Fla. – With four scores of 76 or better in the final round, the FGCU women's golf team improved to a sixth place finish at the 38th Annual Pat Bradley Invitational Tuesday, Oct. 27 at the Lakewood Ranch Country Club. The Eagles carded a team score of 294 in Tuesday's round to finish at 901 overall and among the top half of the 14-team field.
 
The Green and Blue held 12th place after the first round but produced strong numbers in the second and third rounds to advance to the top-six. Toledo captured the tournament crown with a score of 879, while Memphis and host FIU made up the top three with scores of 884 and 891, respectively. Daytona State took fourth place with a score of 892, while James Madison finished in fifth at 900, just one stroke ahead of the Eagles.
 
With the 901 total score, FGCU led seventh-place Western Kentucky by five strokes and finished ahead of FAU, Bradley, Georgia State, Cincinnati, A-Sun foe Jacksonville, North Texas and Texas A&M Corpus Christi.
 
"I am so proud of our strong play again today," said head coach Sarah Trew. "We had a ton of birdies early and had things really rolling. We left some shots out there on the second 9, but posted a great team score overall. It's encouraging to see our girls score well and feel they can go even lower. I'm confident we will see some record team scores carrying this momentum into the spring and postseason."
 
Megan Blonien (Altus, Okla./Altus High School/Oklahoma State) led the Green and Blue with an eighth-place finish among the field of over 75 players. Blonien carded a round of 76 Tuesday to finish at 222 overall (76-70-76).
 
Blonien started the day with birdies on holes 11 and 12 and carded 11 holes at even par to finish at plus-4 in the final round of FIU's event. The junior finished just three strokes out of the top five and seven strokes behind the overall leader.
 
Senior Mei Khuan Yong (Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia/S.M.K. Cochrane) carded her collegiate best round in Monday's play and responded with a plus-1 score of 73 in her third round to finish at 225 (82-70-73) with a top-20 finish.
 
Yong was consistent in her third round with two birdies, three bogeys and 13 even holes.
 
Sara Detlefsen (Eagan, Minn./Minnesota Virtual Academy) improved to the top-30 with a plus-1 score of 73 in the final round and finished with a 227 (78-76-73) overall. The senior produced three bogeys and birdies on holes 11 and 17 en route to her best round of the three-day event.
 
Madeline Marck-Sherk (Ridgeway, Ontario/Ridgeway Crystal Beach High School) again cut six strokes off her second-round score to finish with the team's best round of the day. Marck-Sherk was plus-16 in the first round before improving to plus-6 Monday and finished with an even score of 72 in Tuesday's play. The freshman carded four bogeys with four birdies and finished with a total score of 238 (88-78-72).
 
Kelsy Holbert (Lutz, Fla./Steinbrenner High School) and Madison Easterbrook (Burlington, Ontario/ Aldershot High School) rounded out the team with scores of 82 and 81, respectively, in the final round. Holbert finished with a score of 237 (78-77-82), while Easterbrook carded a 247 (81-85-81) as an individual.
 
The Pat Bradley Invitational served as the team's final fall event. The Eagles will resume action Feb. 1 with the one-day Florida Challenge before heading back to Lakewood Ranch for the Bowling Green Mid-American Match Play Challenge, Feb. 8-9. The team will host the Eagle Invitational Feb. 12-14 at Stoneybrook Country Club and will play four additional spring tournaments before the 2015 Atlantic Sun Conference Championship.
 
 
COMPLETE RESULTS

	Team	1	2	3	Total	To par
1	Toledo	296	292	291	879	+15
2	Memphis	292	297	295	884	+20
3	FIU	297	295	299	891	+27
4	Daytona State	295	298	299	892	+28
5	James Madison	290	307	303	900	+36
6	FGCU	314	293	294	901	+37
7	W. Kentucky	306	296	304	906	+42
8	FAU	300	301	309	910	+46
9	Bradley	315	297	303	915	+51
10	Georgia State	315	303	299	917	+53
11	Cincinnati	307	306	308	921	+57
12	Jacksonville	303	317	304	924	+60
13	North Texas	311	317	303	931	+67
14	TX A&M Corpus Christi	311	307	330	948	+84

 
 

T 8	Megan Blonien	76	70	76	222	+6
T 17	Mei Khuan Yong	82	70	73	225	+9
T 27	Sara Detlefsen	78	76	73	227	+11
T 53	Kelsy Holbert	78	77	82	237	+21
T 60	Madeline Marck-Sherk	88	78	72	238	+22
T 74	Madison Easterbrook*	81	85	81	247	+31

*competed as an individual
 
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Head coach Sarah Trew enters her fifth season at the helm of the FGCU women's golf team. Trew took over in 2011 and has since guided the Eagles to the program's best-ever finish in the Atlantic Sun Tournament and to 20+ top-10 finishes. A year ago, Trew led the team to several records on and off the course. The 2013-14 squad set a new single-season scoring record with a team average of 307.88, while also setting a new benchmark academically. The team earned a team grade point average of 3.8 in the fall semester and set the FGCU team record with a 3.92 during the spring of 2014. The spring of 2015 saw the Eagles again take third place at the A-Sun Championship, and recording their best team score of the season.