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November 1, 2006 The Saint Martin’s women’s golf team put together an impressive string of finishes to mark their most successful fall season ever. The Saints are ranked 23rd in the country according to Golfstat. The Saints started off the season with a fourth place finish at the Grand Canyon Invitational. As a team they shot the third best round on the final day to solidify their spot in the top five and beat out Western Washington University, for the first time, by one stroke with a 627. In a dual match against Concordia the Saints came up just shy of a victory as the fell by one stroke, 337-338. SMU’s Stacie Henden was the medalist for the event shooting an 80 for the round, beating out Concordia’s Miranda Silva by two strokes. The Saints then traveled to Bellingham to take part in the Western Washington Invitational. They posted a fourth place finish shooting 993 as a team over the three round tournament. One of the Saints biggest wins came at the University of British Columbia Women’s Golf Invitational as the team played two outstanding rounds of golf to finish second. The six team tournament included NAIA defending National Champions Oklahoma City University, two Division I schools, Santa Clara University and Montana State University, host University of British Columbia and Victoria, B.C. The Saints finished with a two-day total of 640 behind only OCU who finished with a 610. Babe Prante finished tied for third in the tournament at 153. She shot a single round low 74 the first day and 79 on day two. The Saints were led by Babe Prante who averaged 78.58 per round during the fall. Stacie Henden averaged 79.69 while Maria Laraisse posted an 82.85. Following that were Lauren Roberts and Alexi Coltom who averaged 83.10 and 84.10 respectively. Molly Jensen had an average score of 83.89. Bridget Kennedy put up an 86.00 on average and Emily O’Hollaren posted a 93.60. “I feel good about the success we had this fall and am looking forward to having a very competitive spring schedule while trying to reach the goal of qualifying for regionals. Based on our fall play, I feel we have individuals and a team that has the potential reach that goal,” said head coach Bob Grisham. “We need to be able to take the success from the fall and build on them. We know what we need to improve on individually and as a team and I think we are capable of that.” The Saints will resume play at the nationally ranked St. Edwards Invitational in February.
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