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Sunday, September 14
Defiance, Ohio
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Falcons to Compete at Jon P. Spiess Memorial on Sunday, Sept. 14
September 13, 2014 | Women's Golf
Bowling Green, Ohio – The Bowling Green State University women's golf team will return to the links for competition this Sunday, Sept. 14, as the Falcons will compete at the one-day Jon P. Spiess Memorial Invitational event at the Eagle Rock Golf Club in Defiance, Ohio.
The event, which is hosted by Defiance College, is a one-day 18-hole tournament with a 10 a.m. shotgun start on Sunday. The tournament field includes local institutions such as Cleary University, Lourdes University, host Defiance College, Rochester College, Siena Heights University, the University of Northwestern Ohio and Jackson College.
Head Coach Stephanie Young's lineup will feature five players that will be making their season debuts this year, including two new faces in freshmen Madelynn Swank and Miranda Dubler.
Swank will be making her intercollegiate debut for the Falcons this Sunday, as the 2014 graduate of Hinsdale Central High School in Clarendon Hills, Illinois is coming of a high school career in which she helped her team go undefeated for four straight years from 2011-14 in regular season matches and in both conference sectional and regional events. Last year as a senior in 2014, she was a third-place finisher at the IHSA State Tournament, having also finished third in the state event in 2011 as a freshman. Swank also placed fourth at both the 2013 and 2012 IHSA State Tournaments in her junior and sophomore seasons.
Sophomores Mikayla Baer and Fran Rodriguez will both be making their first appearances this season for the Falcons at the Spiess Memorial event, as both will be entering their second full seasons on the team for BGSU.
Last year as a freshman, Baer posted a stroke average of 80.90, playing 20 rounds overall, and carded a low round 73 at the Great Smokies Intercollegiate. She finished tied for 17th overall at the Cleveland State Invitational (76-83) and recorded a 27th-place finish at the Redbird Invitational (79-79-74), the first intercollegiate tournament of her career last fall.
Rodriguez turned in a stroke average of 81.20 over five rounds of play as a freshman in 2013-14, as she finished 16th overall at the Cleveland State Invitational with rounds of 78 and 80. She also carded rounds of 82 and 83 at the Dolores Black Falcon Invitational and played for the Falcons at the WMU vs. BGSU Dual Match.
The lone upperclassman in the lineup will be junior Julia Hoffman. In 2013-14, Hoffman recorded a stroke average of 88.20 over five rounds on the year, posting rounds of 93 and 84 at the Cleveland State Invitational and rounds of 89 and 90 at the Dolores Black Falcon Invitational. Like Rodriguez, she also competed at the WMU vs. BGSU Dual Match last year.
Dubler, like Swank, will be making her intercollegiate debut, as the 2014 graduate of William Mason High School in Mason, Ohio was a two-time First-Team All-Conference selection for the Greater Miami Conference (GMC) and was named to the Division I OHSAA First-Team in 2013 and the Division I OHSAA Second-Team in 2012. Tabbed the Team MVP in 2013, Dubler led the GMC with a scoring average of 38.1 that season and helped guide her team to back-to-back District, Sectional and Greater Miami Conference Championships in 2012 and 2013. Dubler, who finished in fifth-place overall at the State Tournament in both 2012 and 201, was also the 2012 Junior Met Champion and the 2014 Golf Week Junior Tour Champion at Bowling Green. She finished in second-place at the 2013 Ohio Junior Girls event and most recently finished as the runner up in the first flight at the 2014 Women's Met Tournament.
A recap of the one-day event will be available online at BGSUFalcons.com at the conclusion of the tournament.
The Falcons are coming off rounds of 314, 312 and 316 at the Redbird Invitational on Sept. 7-8, in which BGSU finished in eighth-place overall out of the 16 team field with a combined 54-hole team score of 942, +78. BGSU finished ahead of South Dakota State, Loyola, Oakland, Western Illinois, Drake, Marshall, Central Michigan and Evansville.
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The event, which is hosted by Defiance College, is a one-day 18-hole tournament with a 10 a.m. shotgun start on Sunday. The tournament field includes local institutions such as Cleary University, Lourdes University, host Defiance College, Rochester College, Siena Heights University, the University of Northwestern Ohio and Jackson College.
Head Coach Stephanie Young's lineup will feature five players that will be making their season debuts this year, including two new faces in freshmen Madelynn Swank and Miranda Dubler.
Swank will be making her intercollegiate debut for the Falcons this Sunday, as the 2014 graduate of Hinsdale Central High School in Clarendon Hills, Illinois is coming of a high school career in which she helped her team go undefeated for four straight years from 2011-14 in regular season matches and in both conference sectional and regional events. Last year as a senior in 2014, she was a third-place finisher at the IHSA State Tournament, having also finished third in the state event in 2011 as a freshman. Swank also placed fourth at both the 2013 and 2012 IHSA State Tournaments in her junior and sophomore seasons.
Sophomores Mikayla Baer and Fran Rodriguez will both be making their first appearances this season for the Falcons at the Spiess Memorial event, as both will be entering their second full seasons on the team for BGSU.
Last year as a freshman, Baer posted a stroke average of 80.90, playing 20 rounds overall, and carded a low round 73 at the Great Smokies Intercollegiate. She finished tied for 17th overall at the Cleveland State Invitational (76-83) and recorded a 27th-place finish at the Redbird Invitational (79-79-74), the first intercollegiate tournament of her career last fall.
Rodriguez turned in a stroke average of 81.20 over five rounds of play as a freshman in 2013-14, as she finished 16th overall at the Cleveland State Invitational with rounds of 78 and 80. She also carded rounds of 82 and 83 at the Dolores Black Falcon Invitational and played for the Falcons at the WMU vs. BGSU Dual Match.
The lone upperclassman in the lineup will be junior Julia Hoffman. In 2013-14, Hoffman recorded a stroke average of 88.20 over five rounds on the year, posting rounds of 93 and 84 at the Cleveland State Invitational and rounds of 89 and 90 at the Dolores Black Falcon Invitational. Like Rodriguez, she also competed at the WMU vs. BGSU Dual Match last year.
Dubler, like Swank, will be making her intercollegiate debut, as the 2014 graduate of William Mason High School in Mason, Ohio was a two-time First-Team All-Conference selection for the Greater Miami Conference (GMC) and was named to the Division I OHSAA First-Team in 2013 and the Division I OHSAA Second-Team in 2012. Tabbed the Team MVP in 2013, Dubler led the GMC with a scoring average of 38.1 that season and helped guide her team to back-to-back District, Sectional and Greater Miami Conference Championships in 2012 and 2013. Dubler, who finished in fifth-place overall at the State Tournament in both 2012 and 201, was also the 2012 Junior Met Champion and the 2014 Golf Week Junior Tour Champion at Bowling Green. She finished in second-place at the 2013 Ohio Junior Girls event and most recently finished as the runner up in the first flight at the 2014 Women's Met Tournament.
A recap of the one-day event will be available online at BGSUFalcons.com at the conclusion of the tournament.
The Falcons are coming off rounds of 314, 312 and 316 at the Redbird Invitational on Sept. 7-8, in which BGSU finished in eighth-place overall out of the 16 team field with a combined 54-hole team score of 942, +78. BGSU finished ahead of South Dakota State, Loyola, Oakland, Western Illinois, Drake, Marshall, Central Michigan and Evansville.
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