March 5, 2002
BRYAN, Texas -- Aided by the fourth-best team score of the final round, Northwestern's 26th-ranked women's golf team vaulted from an 11th-place tie to seventh at the Verizon "Mo"Morial Tournament at Briarcrest Country Club.
Veteran golfers Elizabeth Burden (Lake Bluff, Ill./Lake Forest) and Emily Gilley (Flossmoor, Ill./Homewood-Flossmoor) responded with much-improved rounds from the first day to finish 31st and 63rd, respectively. Burden took eight strokes off her first-round score to finish 18-over-par. Gilley, a three-time All-Big Ten selection, improved her second-round total by 10 strokes to finish 26-over-par.
Sophomore Hana Kim (Encino, Calif./Brentwood), the Wildcats' first-round leader, fired a 5-over-par 77 to finish 11-over for the tournament. She finished the tournament tied for eighth place. Kim's younger sister, Ina Kim (Encino, Calif./Harvard-Westlake), finished 17-over for the tournament, good enough for a 25th-place tie.
Ohio State and Michigan State finished one-two in the team race. Also placing just in front of the Wildcats in sixth was a third Big Ten team, Indiana. The Buckeyes' Mollie Fankhauser (+6) was the tournament's individual champion.
The Wildcats are off the next two weeks before returning to the Lone Star state to participate in the Betsy Rawls Longhorn Invitational in Austin on March 25-26.
Verizon Mo Morial Invitational -- FINAL RESULTS Briarcrest Country Club Bryan, Texas Tournament Dates: March 4-5, 20021 Ohio State 307 306 616 +40 2 Michigan State 317 313 630 +54 3 TCU 315 318 633 +57 4 Oklahoma 324 314 638 +62 5 Baylor 324 316 640 +64 6 Indiana 323 319 642 +66 7 Northwestern 332 315 647 +71 8 Missouri 323 329 652 +76 9 Texas A 323 331 654 +78 10 Kent State 332 323 655 +79 11 Texas-El Paso 330 326 656 +80 12 Minnesota 327 332 659 +83 13 Kansas State 332 329 661 +85 14 Iowa 336 330 666 +90 15 Iowa State 333 336 669 +93 T16 Texas Tech 335 335 670 +94 T16 Kansas 346 324 670 +94 18 Arkansas 351 327 678 +102
Northwestern Individual Scores T8 Hana Kim 78-77=155 +11 T25 Ina Kim 80-81=161 +17 T31 Elizabeth Burden 85-77=162 +18 T63 Emily Gilley 90-80=170 +26 T77 Lauren Grzebien 89-83=172 +28
For complete tournament results, visit: http://live.golfstat.com/active/public/index.cfm?tournament_id=114