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Carter Leads – Racers 2nd After Day-1 of OVC Championship
4/17/2022 4:54:00 PM | Women's Golf
The Racers’ women’s golf team is looking for their 13th OVC title in Muscle Shoals, Ala.
Payton Carter had a share of first place and the Murray State women's golf team a share of second place after the first round of the 28th Ohio Valley Conference championship at the Shoals Golf Club in Muscle Shoals, Alabama.
Taking on the Shoal's Fighting Joe course, the Racers carded a first round 299, as did Belmont, and trailed leader Austin Peay who posted a 295. Tennessee Tech (305) and Morehead State (307) made up the rest of the top-5.
Carter, a junior, shared the first-round individual lead with Austin Peay's Erica Scutt, each with a 1-under-par 71 as the only players in the field of 33 players to break par on the Shoals' Fighting Joe Course.
Other Murray State scores and places included Ana Picchi in third place after a 73, while Eliza Mae Kho was in 15th place on a round of 77. MSU's
Emmie Eriksson posted a 78 and had a spot in 18th place and Alma Garcia's 85 was good for a spot in 27th place.
Round two for the Racers begins Tuesday morning at 9:22 a.m. with MSU paired with APSU and Belmont.
Racer Golf Notes
The Shoals GC – Fighting Joe Course
Muscle Shoals, Ala. - April 17-19, 2022
Par-72, 6,027yds - GolfStat.com bit.ly/3M4m7kb
Team
Austin Peay 295 +7
Murray State 299 +11
Belmont 299 +11
Tennessee Tech 305 +17
Morehead State 307 +19
Eastern Illinois 331 +43
T2 Murray State 299
T1 Payton Carter (1) 71
T3 Ana Picchi (3) 73
T15 Eliza Kho (2) 77
T18 Emmie Eriksson (5) 78
T27 Alma Garcia (4) 85
About The Shoals
The Robert Trent Jones Golf Trail at The Shoals is home to two 18-hole championship courses and lies between the Wheeler and Wilson dams on the Tennessee River. Wheeler Dam is named in honor of General Joseph "Fighting Joe" Wheeler - the only Confederate General to attain the same rank later in the United States Army. The Fighting Joe course at The Shoals was the first Trail course to break 8,000 yards. Travel + Leisure Golf named Fighting Joe one of the top new courses in 2004. The second course, the Schoolmaster (named for President Woodrow Wilson who was responsible for getting Wilson Dam built and was also known as "The Schoolmaster" of politics), opened in the Summer of 2005.
About Murray State Athletics
Located in Murray, Kentucky, the athletics department of Murray State University is a NCAA Division I member and plays in the Football Championship Subdivision. The Racers have 15 programs including men's teams for baseball, basketball, cross country, football and golf and women's teams for basketball, cross country, golf, soccer, softball, tennis, track & field and volleyball, as well as a mixed gender rifle team. Currently a member of the Ohio Valley Conference, the Racers will join the Missouri Valley Conference on July 1, 2022. The Racers will begin play in the Missouri Valley Football Conference in 2023.
Taking on the Shoal's Fighting Joe course, the Racers carded a first round 299, as did Belmont, and trailed leader Austin Peay who posted a 295. Tennessee Tech (305) and Morehead State (307) made up the rest of the top-5.
Carter, a junior, shared the first-round individual lead with Austin Peay's Erica Scutt, each with a 1-under-par 71 as the only players in the field of 33 players to break par on the Shoals' Fighting Joe Course.
Other Murray State scores and places included Ana Picchi in third place after a 73, while Eliza Mae Kho was in 15th place on a round of 77. MSU's
Emmie Eriksson posted a 78 and had a spot in 18th place and Alma Garcia's 85 was good for a spot in 27th place.Round two for the Racers begins Tuesday morning at 9:22 a.m. with MSU paired with APSU and Belmont.
Racer Golf Notes
- Carter's 71 featured 11-straight pars before she made her first of two birdies at the par-5 12th hole.
- Her 71 ties her career-low round as a Racer after she also carded 71s three other times in the last two seasons.
- Carter's 71 is her best score in four rounds at the OVC Championship and the best for the Racers since Linette Holmslykke's 69 in the 2019 event.
- MSU's 299 is their best team score since a 299 a year ago at the Shoals Schoolmaster Course.
- The 2022 event is the 28th appearance for Coach Velvet Milkman who is the only coach MSU has ever had since she started the program at Murray State in 1993.
- MSU has won three-straight OVC titles three times (1997-99, 2002-04, 2017-19).
- MSU's 12 OVC championships have come in 1997, 1998, 1999, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2009, 2010, 2014, 2017, 2018 and 2019.
- In addition to winning the OVC Championship 12 times, the Racers have also finished second five times.
- The Racers have nine medalist titles at the OVC Championship including Jenny Daag (1998 & 1999), Cuyler Hedley (2003), Lee Anne Pace (2004), Nikki Orazine (2005), Delaney Howson (2014), Moa Folke (2016 & 2017) and Anna Moore (2019).
- MSU has 21 individual finishes of third place or better.
- At Saturday's awards gathering, Murray State's Payton Carter and Ana Picchi were named to the All-OVC Team and Alma Garcia to the OVC Newcomer Team.
28th Ohio Valley Women's Golf ChampionshipDay 1 of the 2022 OVC Women's Golf ⛳ Championship featured some 🌧️, 🌬️ and 🆒 temperatures.
— OhioValleyConference (@OVCSports) April 17, 2022
Sunny skies and warmer weather are forecast for the next two days at @RTJGolf at The Shoals.#OVCit pic.twitter.com/vB36WPxHPw
The Shoals GC – Fighting Joe Course
Muscle Shoals, Ala. - April 17-19, 2022
Par-72, 6,027yds - GolfStat.com bit.ly/3M4m7kb
Team
Austin Peay 295 +7
Murray State 299 +11
Belmont 299 +11
Tennessee Tech 305 +17
Morehead State 307 +19
Eastern Illinois 331 +43
T2 Murray State 299
T1 Payton Carter (1) 71
T3 Ana Picchi (3) 73
T15 Eliza Kho (2) 77
T18 Emmie Eriksson (5) 78
T27 Alma Garcia (4) 85
About The Shoals
The Robert Trent Jones Golf Trail at The Shoals is home to two 18-hole championship courses and lies between the Wheeler and Wilson dams on the Tennessee River. Wheeler Dam is named in honor of General Joseph "Fighting Joe" Wheeler - the only Confederate General to attain the same rank later in the United States Army. The Fighting Joe course at The Shoals was the first Trail course to break 8,000 yards. Travel + Leisure Golf named Fighting Joe one of the top new courses in 2004. The second course, the Schoolmaster (named for President Woodrow Wilson who was responsible for getting Wilson Dam built and was also known as "The Schoolmaster" of politics), opened in the Summer of 2005.
About Murray State Athletics
Located in Murray, Kentucky, the athletics department of Murray State University is a NCAA Division I member and plays in the Football Championship Subdivision. The Racers have 15 programs including men's teams for baseball, basketball, cross country, football and golf and women's teams for basketball, cross country, golf, soccer, softball, tennis, track & field and volleyball, as well as a mixed gender rifle team. Currently a member of the Ohio Valley Conference, the Racers will join the Missouri Valley Conference on July 1, 2022. The Racers will begin play in the Missouri Valley Football Conference in 2023.
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