Golfers Head to Arizona
2/23/2006 12:00:00 AM | Women's Golf
Montana State hits green grass this weekend, traveling to Sedona, Ariz., for the First Red Rocks Invitational. Northern Arizona University hosts a 13-team field which features half the Big Sky Conference.
COMINGS AND GOINGS
About Red Rocks
Montana State plays a course Saturday and Sunday designed by Robert Trent Jones and Robert Trent Jones, Jr. nestled among Sedona’s red rocks, between Arizona’s dessert and pine regions. The teams play 18 holes beginning at 9 am each day.
The Rest of the Field
Big Sky members NAU, MSU, Montana and Portland State join Creighton, Gonzaga, Grand Canyon, Northridge, UC Riverside, Santa Clara, UTEP, W. Michigan, and Wyoming at Sedona this weekend.
So Far This Spring
MSU finished 17th in its spring debut at last week’s Lady Braveheart Classic in Beaumont, Calif. The Bobcats improved 13 strokes from the first round to the second, with soph. Kelly Gillum leading the way.
Player of the Week
Soph. Kelly Gillum became MSU’s first Big Sky Player of the Week this season for her performance at Beaumont. Gillum was the top Big Sky finisher, sixth, with a two-round 156.
NOTING THE ‘CATS
Team Notes
MSU posted only one round over 320 during the fall season, a 326 in the middle round of the Ron Moore Intercollegiate in Highlands Ranch, Colo... MSU also scored under 310 only once, the season-opening 309 at Colorado State... MSU’s rounds of 343 and 330 last week at Beaumont, Calif., stand as the team’s highest two rounds of the 2005-06 season to this point, but came in extreme wind
Individual Notes
Sophomore Kelly Gillum (77.1) joins senior Kylie Anderson (79.5) as the only Bobcats averaging under 80 this season... Kelly Gillum has shot the low Bobcat score in four of the team’s five tournaments this year, and in eight of the team’s 14 rounds... Stephanie Simmons and Kylie Anderson have led the team in scoring in two rounds, while Kristina Kurcinka and LaRae Smith have each posted the low MSU score once each... Kelly Gillum’s 72 is the only par round shot by a Bobcat this season... Kelly Gillum has fired 11 sub-80 rounds this season, while the rest of the team has combined for 15 in 2005-06... Kylie Anderson shot a 90-87 last weekend while battling a hand injury... Anderson averaged 76 in the first two rounds and 81 in the third of her first two tourneys, but in the last three averaged 83.7 in the first round and 79 in the final two rounds... freshman LaRae Smith averages 81.8, fourth-best on the team... Smith has not shot over 85 this season, joining Kelly Gillum as the only Bobcats in that category this season... Shannon Donegan joins the team in Arizona this weekend, playing as an individual
BOBCAT COACHING STAFF
BRITTANY BASYE
HEAD COACH
Brittany Basye, a former state champion at Billings Central and WAC Champion at New Mexico, is in her fourth season as MSU head coach. She was Dan Davies’ assistant for three seasons. Basye was WAC Player of the Year in ‘94, was ranked 17th nationally at one point, and qualified for ‘95 U.S. Open.
FROM BRITTANY BASYE
“I think we are ready to play this weekend, we’re definitely looking forward to playing on green grass and in warm weather. We have prepared for this weekend’s tournament better mentally than we have all season, and we’re trying to do the kind of preparation work more like what we do on the course. Kylie Anderson’s hands are feeling better, so that should help her, and Kylie playing well really helps the team. We look at this tournament as another step for us toward the Big Sky Championships. The Big Sky tournament is only a couple of weeks away, so it’s time for us to step up our game and start competing and playing well.”
COMINGS AND GOINGS
About Red Rocks
Montana State plays a course Saturday and Sunday designed by Robert Trent Jones and Robert Trent Jones, Jr. nestled among Sedona’s red rocks, between Arizona’s dessert and pine regions. The teams play 18 holes beginning at 9 am each day.
The Rest of the Field
Big Sky members NAU, MSU, Montana and Portland State join Creighton, Gonzaga, Grand Canyon, Northridge, UC Riverside, Santa Clara, UTEP, W. Michigan, and Wyoming at Sedona this weekend.
So Far This Spring
MSU finished 17th in its spring debut at last week’s Lady Braveheart Classic in Beaumont, Calif. The Bobcats improved 13 strokes from the first round to the second, with soph. Kelly Gillum leading the way.
Player of the Week
Soph. Kelly Gillum became MSU’s first Big Sky Player of the Week this season for her performance at Beaumont. Gillum was the top Big Sky finisher, sixth, with a two-round 156.
NOTING THE ‘CATS
Team Notes
MSU posted only one round over 320 during the fall season, a 326 in the middle round of the Ron Moore Intercollegiate in Highlands Ranch, Colo... MSU also scored under 310 only once, the season-opening 309 at Colorado State... MSU’s rounds of 343 and 330 last week at Beaumont, Calif., stand as the team’s highest two rounds of the 2005-06 season to this point, but came in extreme wind
Individual Notes
Sophomore Kelly Gillum (77.1) joins senior Kylie Anderson (79.5) as the only Bobcats averaging under 80 this season... Kelly Gillum has shot the low Bobcat score in four of the team’s five tournaments this year, and in eight of the team’s 14 rounds... Stephanie Simmons and Kylie Anderson have led the team in scoring in two rounds, while Kristina Kurcinka and LaRae Smith have each posted the low MSU score once each... Kelly Gillum’s 72 is the only par round shot by a Bobcat this season... Kelly Gillum has fired 11 sub-80 rounds this season, while the rest of the team has combined for 15 in 2005-06... Kylie Anderson shot a 90-87 last weekend while battling a hand injury... Anderson averaged 76 in the first two rounds and 81 in the third of her first two tourneys, but in the last three averaged 83.7 in the first round and 79 in the final two rounds... freshman LaRae Smith averages 81.8, fourth-best on the team... Smith has not shot over 85 this season, joining Kelly Gillum as the only Bobcats in that category this season... Shannon Donegan joins the team in Arizona this weekend, playing as an individual
BOBCAT COACHING STAFF
BRITTANY BASYE
HEAD COACH
Brittany Basye, a former state champion at Billings Central and WAC Champion at New Mexico, is in her fourth season as MSU head coach. She was Dan Davies’ assistant for three seasons. Basye was WAC Player of the Year in ‘94, was ranked 17th nationally at one point, and qualified for ‘95 U.S. Open.
FROM BRITTANY BASYE
“I think we are ready to play this weekend, we’re definitely looking forward to playing on green grass and in warm weather. We have prepared for this weekend’s tournament better mentally than we have all season, and we’re trying to do the kind of preparation work more like what we do on the course. Kylie Anderson’s hands are feeling better, so that should help her, and Kylie playing well really helps the team. We look at this tournament as another step for us toward the Big Sky Championships. The Big Sky tournament is only a couple of weeks away, so it’s time for us to step up our game and start competing and playing well.”
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