Racers Win Banister Classic - Folke Medalist - Murray State University Athletics

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Racers Win Banister Classic - Folke Medalist

9/27/2016 2:56:00 PM | Women's Golf

Results

The Murray State women's golf team put together three brilliant rounds and coasted to a 18-shot win at the Chris Banister Golf Classic at Silver Lakes Golf Club in Glencoe, Alabama.

The Racers put together rounds of 294-297-296=887 and won the title ahead of second place UAB who had a total of 905. Tennessee Tech (928), Samford and South Alabama (935) and host Jacksonville State (947) made up the top-6.

The Racers won their second Banister title after the first in 2002.

Moa Folke, who won the 2015 Ohio Valley Conference championship last spring, was medalist at the Banister Classic with scores of 71-74-70=215. She won by five shots over UAB's Sydney Snodgrass who had scores of 74-74-72=220. Folke's 215 was the third-lowest total score in the 22 year history of the event.

Folke is the second Murray State player to win medalist after Nikki Orazine did it in 2005.

Racer freshman Lucila Puente Rodriguez de Austria made the All-Tournament team with a third place showing on scores of 72-74-75=221 and Linette Holmslykke placed eighth on rounds of 78-72-75=225. Sydney Trimble placed 15^th with scores of 81-77-76=234 and Raeysha Surendran had scores of 73-81-82=236 and placed 22^nd.

MSU's Jane Watts played the event as an individual and placed 13^th on scores of 79-76-75=230.

The rest of the field included La.-Monroe (952), Alabama State (964) and Lipscomb (973

Silver Lakes played a distance of 5,943 yards and to a par-72.

The Racers are back in action (Oct. 3-4) at Dalhousie Golf Club in Cape Girardeau, Mo., in the MVC Preview.