STOCKBRIDGE, Ga. – The FGCU women's golf team finished with a fourth-place standing through the final round of action at the Georgia State John Kirk Panther Intercollegiate Tuesday, Mar. 29. The Eagles carded a team score of 303 in the last of three rounds at Eagle's Landing Golf Club and produced a total team score of 905 after carding scores of 297 and 305 in the first two rounds.
 
The team again saw four individual scores at 78 or better in the third round and maintained the fourth-place position on the leaderboard through the event. The final team score ranks 18 strokes behind tournament champion Elon and just six strokes out of Western Kentucky's second-place score. Western Michigan took third place only one stroke ahead of FGCU, while Western Carolina and Eastern Kentucky tied for fifth with scores of 910.
 
"I'm very proud of the way we played today," said head coach Sarah Trew. "The hole locations were tricky but we played smart and still managed to make quite a few birdies. We had a few tough holes in the middle of the round but fought back for every shot and bounced back for a great finish. One of our team goals has been to put three solid rounds together and we did that this tournament. I'm proud of Myka for her consistent play to finish top-10 as an individual. It's exciting to post our best tournament of the spring heading into the conference tournament."
 
Senior Mei Khuan Yong (Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia/ S.M.K. Cochrane) led the Green and Blue with a three-round score of 221 and a sixth-place finish among the field of over 80 golfers. Yong carded scores of 74 in the first and second rounds and concluded play with a 73 on Tuesday. After teeing off on hole four, Yong began her round with a bogey and added a double just four holes later but quickly rebounded with a birdie on hole nine. Yong went into hole 10 at plus-2 but quickly moved to plus-4 with back-to-back bogeys. With 10 holes to play, the senior fired seven even-par holes and added birdies on 12, 15 and one to conclude the round. The strong end-game play brought Yong's score to plus-1 and gave her the team's best finish.
 
Madeline Marck-Sherk (Ridgeway, Ontario/Ridgeway Crystal Beach High School) matched her best round of the event with a 75 in the third round. The rookie finished the three-day tournament with a total score of 227 and a 16th-place standing. After rounds of 75 and 77 in the first two days, Marck-Sherk got off to a quick start Tuesday morning. She fired birdies on her first two holes and even after struggling on two holes, held a plus-1 score through nine. Marck-Sherk carded a birdie on hole 15 and finished her round with three bogeys and five even-par holes for the 75.
 
Junior Megan Blonien (Altus, Okla./Altus High School/Oklahoma State) struggled with eight bogeys on her first 15 holes but finished her round with consecutive birdies on holes three and four. The birdies saved her round from entering the 80s as the junior finished the day with a plus-6 score of 78. Blonien's Tuesday score added to marks of 73 and 77 in the first two rounds and gave her a top-20 individual finish with a score of 228.
 
Madison Easterbrook (Burlington, Ontario/Aldershot High School) finished just one stroke behind Blonien with a 229 final score through three rounds. Easterbrook carded a 75 and 77 in the first two go arounds and added a 77 in the final day of play. Her third round included three bogeys, two doubles and two birdies with 11 even-par holes. The plus-5 round Tuesday pushed Easterbrook for a 20th place finish in the field.
 
Senior Sara Detlefsen (Eagan, Minn./Minnesota Virtual Academy) rounded out FGCU's lineup with a third-round score of 84. Detlefsen finished the event with a total score of 242 with rounds of 76, 82 and 84 at the John Kirk Panther Intercollegiate.  
 
The John Kirk Panther Intercollegiate concludes the regular season for the Green and Blue. The team will compete in the 2016 Atlantic Sun Conference Championship April 10-12 in Kissimmee, Fla.
 
TEAM RESULTS (GolfStat Ranking)

1	Elon (93)	293	297	297	887
2	Western Kentucky (123)	293	304	302	899
3	Western Michigan (153)	301	295	308	904
4	FGCU (148)	297	305	303	905
5	Western Carolina (151)	303	299	308	910
	Eastern Kentucky (105)	295	310	305	910
7	CSU Fullerton (117)	301	305	309	915
8	South Alabama (171)	303	305	311	919
9	Georgia State (170)	314	303	306	923
10	UAB (177)	319	303	308	930
11	Appalachian State (173)	311	312	308	931
12	Illinois State (198)	314	311	313	938
13	Brown (N/A)	316	324	307	947
14	ULM (223)	329	321	332	982
15	Central Michigan (234)	345	330	319	994

 
INDIVIDUAL RESULTS

6	Mei Khuan Yong	74	74	73	221
T16	Madeline Marck-Sherk	75	77	75	227
19	Megan Blonien	73	77	78	228
T20	Madison Easterbrook	75	77	77	229
T62	Sara Detlefsen	76	82	84	242

 
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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.