Madison Alamillo carded a tournament-best 2-over 74 on Tuesday to place second overall for the Cavaleirs.
Seven straight, Cavs repeat as CCC champions
RESULTS
SPRINGFIELD, Ore.—With five of the top eight individual finishers, Concordia University rolled to a 73-stroke win at the Northwest Christian Invitational played at the Springfield Country Club on Tuesday, sealing the team's seventh straight regular-season Cascade Collegiate Conference title.
Concordia (315-323-311—949) posted a wire-to-wire win with the three best overall rounds of the tournament.
Behind the strength of individual medalist Baylee Borchers (77-76-80—233), College of Idaho (334-338-350—1,022) placed second overall in the standings with Northwest Christian (360-346-353—1,059) next in line.
Simpson University (361-355-356—1,072), Corban University (371-359-354—1,084) and Oregon Tech (398-409-392—1,199) rounded out the six-team field.
The regular-season championship is determined by the total number of strokes tallied over four conference tournaments with the Cavs sweeping all four events by an average of 62 strokes. Concordia tallied a four-tournament score of 3,879 strokes with College of Idaho (4,167) and Corban (4,335) in the second and third positions.
Borchers held off a late-charging attempt by Concordia's Madison Alamillo (79-82-74—235) to take first place overall after Alamillo posted the tournament's lowest single-round score of a 2-over 74 on Tuesday to jump from fifth to second on the final day of action.
Alamillo's teammates Jennifer Gibbons (76-80-80—236) and Sunny Powers (79-80-79—238) placed third and fourth with the team's final two competitors, Kelsey Whiles (81-81-80—242) and Lynsie Furuya (82-84-78—244) taking the seventh and eighth positions on the leaderboard.
In addition to Borchers play, C of I received a second top-10 performance as Gabriella Giesbrecht (84-83-86—253) came in at ninth overall.
The top golfers for Oregon Tech and Warner Pacific tied for 10th overall with OIT's Alyssa Clements (85-91-80—256) and WPC's Scotti Jo Helmick (82-89-85—256) leading their respective teams. The host Beacons were led by the duo of Haley Partridge (87-85-88—260) and Sami Pitts (88-86-87—261) who claimed 12th and 13th place, respectively, over the 5,801-yard course
The CCC Championships, the fifth conference event of the season that takes place April 21-22 in Nampa, Idaho. The CCC women's championship will not carry an automatic bid into the national tournament, so qualifying to nationals will require an at-large selection. The Cavaliers will be seeking their 10th straight appearance at the national championships. Concordia placed 16th nationally last season.