Women's Golf Opens CAA Championship Friday In Williamsburg
04/17/2008 | Women's Golf
April 17, 2008
WILLIAMSBURG, Va. - The Richmond women's golf team will compete in the CAA Championship, Friday through Sunday at the Golden Horseshoe Green Course.
The 54-hole tournament begins Friday morning with the Spiders teeing off at 11:21 a.m. The winner of the CAA Championship receives an automatic berth to the NCAA Women's Golf Championships. Richmond has finished in the top-4 in all five years in the CAA. The Spiders finished fourth last spring, third in 2006. Richmond's best finish in the tournament was second in 2004.
Follow the event through live scoring on Golfstat's website linked here through RichmondSpiders.com.
Richmond will be bringing three players who have CAA Championship experience, including senior Alex Latimer who tied for 23rd at the 2006 tournament. Sophomore Lauren Folgosa was tied for the lead after the first round of last year's championship before finishing 14th.
"Last year I was leading after the first round and didn't capitalize as well as I should have," Folgosa said. "I'm looking forward to making up for that."
Sophomore Anne Sprick took 35th at last year's tournament as a freshman and leads the team with a 78.91 scoring average.
Richmond will have two freshmen playing in the CAA Championship this year, with Jillian Fraccola and Christina Gray making the trip.
Gray led the Spiders with a 17th-place finish in their last tournament, the UNCW Lady Seahawk Invitational. Fraccola is second on the team in scoring average.
"I think we've peaked at the right time, the girls are playing well right now," Richmond head coach Leighann Albaugh said. "We've really worked on our short game because that's where this tournament is going to be one, so we should be prepared for a great golf course."
Ten teams will compete for the CAA women's title on the par-72, 6,150-yard Green Course.
"I'm looking forward to playing the Green Course at the Golden Horseshoe a very nice course in good condition," Folgosa said. "It has quick greens, a lot of undulations, a lot of hills around the greens to make short game especially difficult, but with our intensive practices that we've been doing I feel better suited to compete on the course."
"We did well two weekends ago and everybody's still playing well," Fraccola said. "Hopefully we can go out there and put it all together."