STOCKBRIDGE, Ga. – The FGCU women's golf team held onto a fourth-place standing through the second round of action at the Georgia State John Kirk Panther Intercollegiate Monday, Mar. 28. The Eagles carded a team score of 305 in the second of three rounds at Eagle's Landing Golf Club and hold a total team score of 602 after producing a 297 in the opening round.
 
The team saw four individual scores at 77 or better in the second round and maintained its position on the leaderboard. The total score stands just 12 strokes behind tournament leader Elon and five strokes out of third place. Western Michigan and Western Kentucky round out the top-three, while FGCU maintains a tie with Western Carolina. The Green and Blue stand ahead of 10 teams in the 15-team field with just one round to play.
 
"The course conditions changed quite a bit today as the course dried out and got considerably faster," said head coach Sarah Trew. "I think tomorrow we can expect to see a totally different golf course than the first day of play. We left a few shots out there coming in but are still in a good spot for a high finish. Tomorrow we have talked about making some adjustments on and around the greens that should help us save some shots. We will look to have a solid finishing round before the conference tournament."
 
Senior Mei Khuan Yong (Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia/ S.M.K. Cochrane) leads the Green and Blue after carding scores of 74 in both of her first two rounds. Yong's total score of 148 stands sixth in the field of over 80 golfers. The senior recorded two birdies and a single bogey on her first nine holes and took the turn at 1-under in Monday's round. Yong carded bogeys on 10, 13 and 18 to finish the round at plus-2 and help FGCU maintain its position from the first round.
 
Megan Blonien (Altus, Okla./Altus High School/Oklahoma State) stands just behind Yong with a two-round score of 150. Blonien led the team with a 73 in the first round and fired a 77 in Monday's round. Her two-round total stands among the field's top-15. In Monday's round, Blonien started with two bogeys on her first four holes but responded with a pair of consecutive birdies. She finished her first nine holes even but picked up three strokes on the next three holes. Blonien added two holes late in the round and finished with a score of plus-5 on the day.
 
Underclassmen Madison Easterbrook (Burlington, Ontario/Aldershot High School) and Madeline Marck-Sherk (Ridgeway, Ontario/Ridgeway Crystal Beach High School) each carded a score of 75 in the event's first round and followed with 77 in the second round. The duo holds a two-round total of 152 and sits within the top-30 in the field. Easterbrook carded seven bogeys in the second round but added birdies on holes three and 13 to move to plus-five on the day. Marck-Sherk started slow with two bogeys on her first two holes and moved to plus-4 after seven holes with a birdie, a double and a bogey on three-straight holes. The rookie evened out after seven and recorded 10 even-par holes in her last 11 to finish at plus-5 on the day.
 
Senior Sara Detlefsen (Eagan, Minn./Minnesota Virtual Academy) rounded out FGCU's lineup with a second-round score of 82. Detlefsen stands at 158 through two rounds after carding a 76 in the opening day of competition.
 
The Green and Blue will play one final round at the John Kirk Intercollegiate and will tee off Tuesday morning at 9 a.m. FGCU will be paired with Western Carolina and Eastern Kentucky in the third round as they look to continue the strong play and stay near the top of the leaderboard to conclude the tournament..
 
Life scoring for the Panther Intercollegiate is available via GolfStat.com and can be accessed here. Complete results will be available at FGCUAthletics.com.
 
TEAM RESULTS (GolfStat Ranking)

1	Elon (93)	293	297	590
2	Western Michigan (153)	301	295	596
3	Western Kentucky (123)	293	304	597
4	FGCU (148)	297	305	602
	Western Carolina (151)	303	299	602
6	Eastern Kentucky (105)	295	310	605
7	CSU Fullerton (117)	301	305	606
8	South Alabama (171)	303	305	606
9	Georgia State (170)	314	303	617
10	UAB (177)	319	303	622
11	Appalachian State (173)	311	312	623
12	Illinois State (198)	314	311	625
13	Brown (N/A)	316	324	640
14	ULM (223)	329	321	650
15	Central Michigan (234)	345	330	675

 
INDIVIDUAL RESULTS

T6	Mei Khuan Yong	74	74	148
T14	Megan Blonien	73	77	150
T26	Madison Easterbrook	75	77	152
T26	Madeline Marck-Sherk	75	77	152
T49	Sara Detlefsen	76	82	158

 
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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.