Women's Golf: Ohio Northern (17-2 Overall) at Heidelberg Fall Invitational, Bluffton Fall Invitational
Friday-Saturday, Sept. 17-18, 2021, 2 pm/8:30 am - The Medalist Golf Club, Marshall, Mich.
Saturday-Sunday, Sept. 18-19, 2021, 1 pm/9 am - Bluffton Golf Club, Bluffton, Ohio
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This Weekend's Tournaments: The Ohio Northern women's golf team will again split squads to compete in two tournaments this weekend ... Half of the ONU team will compete Friday and Saturday at the Heidelberg Fall Invitational, while the other half will compete Saturday and Sunday at the Bluffton Beaver Classic … Heidelberg's tournament gets underway with a 10 am shotgun start on Friday and will finish play with a 9 am shotgun start on Saturday … Joining ONU in the tournament are Heidelberg, Allegheny (Pa.), Mount St. Joseph, Wooster, Hanover, Ohio Wesleyan, Adrian, Wittenberg, Baldwin Wallace and Capital … The Beaver Classic will be 36 holes with a shotgun start at 1 pm on Saturday and a 9 am shotgun start on Sunday ... Sophomore Grace Honigford as ONU rallied for a third-place finish out of 16 teams at the Olivet (Mich.) Kyle Campbell Invitational on Saturday at The Medalist Golf Club ... The Polar Bears carded a 340-321—661 on the par-72 course ... The 321 was the lowest team score of the day on Saturday and tied for the second-lowest team score in ONU history ... ONU sat in seventh place after Friday's first round but got scores in the 70s from three golfers on Saturday to move up the standings ... Freshman Rhianna Firmstone joined Honigford in shooting a second-round 79 while junior Isabella Orofino bested them both with a career-low 78 ... Through four rounds this season, Honigford leads the team in scoring at 77.0 ... Firmstone is second at 82.8, freshman Amelia Burger is third at 84.0 and Orofino is fourth at 84.8.
ONU Statistical Leaders:
| Average | ||
| 1. | Honigford | 77.0 |
| 2. | Firmstone | 82.8 |
| 3. | Burger | 84.0 |
ONU head coach Chad Bucci: Bucci is in his ninth season at ONU with a 265-230-2 record, a winning percentage of .535.
