April 16, 2008
Final Results (PDF)
The University of Tulsa braved winds gusting up to 43 miles per hour on Wednesday to win the 2008 Texas Roadhouse Conference USA Women's Golf Championship in El Paso.
The tournament was played at the par-72, 6,294-yard Butterfield Trail Golf Club.
The Golden Hurricane shot the low round of the day, a 15-over-par 303, to compile a 54-hole total of 904 (304-297-303) and edge out runner-up East Carolina (303-305-314-922).
SMU finished third (308-310-314-932), with UCF fourth (303-314-328-945), Memphis fifth (309-318-324-951), UTEP sixth (303-321-329-953), Southern Miss seventh (301-331-322-954), UAB eighth (306-321-334-961) and Marshall ninth (316-338-339-993).
Tulsa, which captured its first C-USA title, earned the league's automatic bid to NCAA Regionals. Three Golden Hurricane players landed in the top-10 of the individual standings including medalist Woeri Shin, who carded a four-over-par 220 (76-71-73). Tulsa's Leisl Hasbrouck tied for second place (72-77-77-226), Michaela Cavener tied for fourth place (75-77-75-227), Tara Goedeken tied for 11th place (81-72-81-234) and Kelly Fuchik tied for 29th place (81-83-78-242).
Runner-up East Carolina was led by Abby Bools, who tied for fourth place (73-74-80-227). Amber Littman (tied for seventh, 75-78-77-230) and Emelie Lind (10th, 79-73-81-233) also garnered top-10 individual finishes for the Pirates.
Memphis' Alexa Porter tied for second place (73-78-75-226), SMU's Lacy Jones (74-78-77-229) took sixth place, and SMU's Paige Martin (78-79-73-230) and UAB's Jaime Brabb (72-76-82-230) tied for seventh place to round out the top-10 of the individual standings.
SMU's Martin matched Tulsa's Shin with Wednesday's low round of 73.
Host UTEP was led by Liz Sobczak, who tied for 19th place (76-79-83-238). Shang-Fan Huang finished 22nd (75-81-83-239), Deborah Martinez tied for 23rd place (75-79-86-240), Ana Pastor tied for 29th place (77-82-83-242) and Rosana Gomez tied for 34th place (80-88-80-248).
The All-Conference USA Tournament team was Shin, Porter, Hasbrouck, Cavener and Bools.
The All-Conference first, second and third teams, along with specialty award-winners, will be announced on Thursday.
