WOMEN'S GOLF
The women's golf team will compete in the Illini Spring Classic this weekend in Urbana, Ill.
Ball State is coming off its best finish this spring, placing 10th at William & Mary Invitational last weekend.
Carmen Bodine has paced the Cardinals in the first three events. The sophomore leads the team in scoring average at 79.14 in seven rounds and has finished in the top 25 in each tournament this season. Her best showing came at NIU Snowbird Classic, where she finished 14th.
Senior Lisa Robertson has the second-lowest scoring average on the team (83.00). Her best finish this year came at the last tournament, where she finished in a tie for 33rd. Joining her Ali Meyer, who also notched her best performance of the season by firing a final round 78.
Following competition this weekend, the team will have only one more tournament before the Mid-American Conference Championships.
Bodine explained that the team is using every tournament as a chance to improve. "We want to be ready when MAC rolls around," she said.
MEN'S GOLF
The men's golf team heads to Guyan Golf Club in Huntington, W. Va., this weekend to compete in the Marshall Invitational. This tournament marks the halfway point in the spring season, with the Mid-American Conference Championships less than a month away.
Ball State is coming off a seventh-place finish at the Johnny Owens Invitational. The Cards' battled some brutal weather but managed to finish above the three other MAC schools that also competed.
Brandon Boomsma led the way for the Cardinals last weekend. The sophomore finished in a tie for eighth place.
The 14-team field this week will feature one of the hottest teams around, Eastern Kentucky. EKU enters having won the previous three tournaments and is ranked 62nd nationally.
The rest of the field includes Akron, Bowling Green, Charlotte, Marshall, Marquette, Northern Illinois, Ohio State, Ohio, Charleston, Wright State, Xavier and Penn State.
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