Feb. 27, 2001
The University of Missouri women's golf team opened its 2001 spring season with a solid 5th-place team performance at the Midwest Classic, which was held from Feb. 23-25 at the Hyatt Bear Creek Golf Course in Dallas.
Missouri finished 5th of 18 teams in the competition, and were just three strokes behind 3rd-place Oklahoma. Oklahoma State claimed the tournament title with a three-round team score of 906, followed by Ohio State (2nd - 914), Oklahoma (3rd - 924), Baylor (4th - 926) and Missouri (5th - 927).
Individually, senior Amelia Moses led the way as she narrowly missed claiming individual honors. Moses finished in 2nd place for the tournament with a three-round score of 221. She finished just four strokes behind champion Mollie Fankhauser of Ohio State, who won with a 217 total. Moses' final-round four-over par 76 proved costly, as Fankhauser overtook her with a final-round 70.
Junior Nisha Sadekar gave MU another top-20 finisher, as she carded a three-round total of 233 to tie for 20th place individually. Sadekar fired rounds of 78-78-77 to reach her total.
Sophomore Elin Ohlsson (T-30th - 236), senior Jamie Tucker (T-47th - 240) and freshman Tara Jacobsen (72nd - 250) rounded out the Tiger competitors.
Missouri is off until the first week of March, when they'll return to the state of Texas to compete in the GTE MO-Morial, to be held March 5-6 in Houston. Missouri is the two-time defending champion in the tournament.
TEAM STANDINGS Pl Team 1st 2nd 3rd Total 1 Oklahoma St. 295 308 303 906 2 Ohio St. 302 309 303 914 3 Oklahoma 299 309 316 924 4 Baylor 308 317 301 926 5 MISSOURI 306 309 312 927 6 Texas A&M 318 315 297 930 7 Purdue 311 319 305 935 8 Kent St. 312 317 309 938 9 Northwestern 315 312 312 939 10 Michigan 316 318 309 943 11 Nebraska 318 319 315 952 12 Minnesota 326 318 310 954 13 Arkansas-LR 326 318 313 957 14 Arkansas St. 323 330 314 967 15 SMU 324 320 327 971 16 Wisconsin 336 322 320 978 17 SW Missouri St. 333 339 337 1009 18 Iowa 334 359 344 1037
INDIVIDUAL STANDINGS Pl Player (School) 1st 2nd 3rd Tot 1 Mollie Fankhauser (Oh.St.) 73 74 70 217 2 Amelia Moses (MU) 71 74 76 221 3 Mira Bendevis (A&M) 75 77 70 222 4 Maria Boden (Ok.St.) 71 77 75 223 5 Melanie Hagewood (BU) 75 79 71 225 Linda Wessberg (Ok.St.) 75 75 75 225 20 Nisha Sadekar (MU) 78 78 77 233 30 Elin Ohlsson (MU) 76 81 79 236 47 Jamie Tucker (MU) 81 79 80 240 72 Tara Jacobsen (MU) 87 78 85 250