{"id":615652,"date":"2026-04-18T19:21:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-18T19:21:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/615652\/"},"modified":"2026-04-18T19:21:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-18T19:21:09","slug":"womens-golf-closes-play-in-therese-hession-buckeye-invitational","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/615652\/","title":{"rendered":"Women\u2019s Golf Closes Play In Therese Hession Buckeye Invitational"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>COLUMBUS, Ohio &#8211; &#8211; The Ball State women&#8217;s golf team closed play in the\u00a0Therese Hession Buckeye Invitational\u00a0with a +35 (323) Saturday morning to hold steady in 10th place among the highly competitive 14-team field.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nBattling eight of the nation&#8217;s top 81 teams on the challenging Scarlet Course at The Ohio State University Golf Club, the Cardinals\u00a0finished the 54-hole tournament with a team score of +90 (954).<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nThe host Ohio State Buckeyes, the nation&#8217;s 36th-ranked team and tournament host, won the event with a score of +26 (890), two strokes better than No. 25 Iowa State which finished second at +28 (892).<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nWhile No. 30 Kent State finished third at +30 (894), Ball State topped league rivals Western Michigan (11th \/ +93 \/ 957), Ohio (13th \/ +108 \/ 972) and Toledo (14th \/ +128 \/ 992).<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nOn another challenging day for scoring, with just three of the field&#8217;s 74 players finishing the round under par, junior\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/ballstatesports.com\/sports\/womens-golf\/roster\/jj-gregston\/12140\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"12140\" target=\"_blank\">JJ Gregston<\/a>\u00a0led the Cardinals for the second straight round with a score of +8 (80). She carded one of the team&#8217;s four birdies on the day, raising her tournament total to four.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nSenior\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/ballstatesports.com\/sports\/womens-golf\/roster\/sabrina-langerak\/12141\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"12141\" target=\"_blank\">Sabrina Langerak<\/a>\u00a0was the team&#8217;s top overall finisher, closing with a +9 (81), to tie for 35th among the field at +19 (235). She added one more birdie in her final round, to finish her tournament with four.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nSeniors\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/ballstatesports.com\/sports\/womens-golf\/roster\/sarah-gallagher\/12139\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"12139\" target=\"_blank\">Sarah Gallagher<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/ballstatesports.com\/sports\/womens-golf\/roster\/jasmine-driscoll\/12137\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"12137\" target=\"_blank\">Jasmine Driscoll<\/a>\u00a0also finished their final tours of the 6,319-yard, 72-par course\u00a0with rounds of +9 (81). Gallagher and Driscoll also carded one birdie each in the final round, with Gallagher finishing the tournament with a team-high seven birdies to tie for 21st among the field, while Driscoll carded three over the 54-hole event.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nAs a team, Ball State&#8217;s 20 total birdies tied for ninth among the 14-team field.\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nUp next, the Ball State women&#8217;s golf team travels to the Firestone Country Club for the Mid-American Conference Championships. The three-day event runs Sunday, April 26 to Tuesday, April 28.<\/p>\n<p>Ball State Individual Results<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nT35.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/ballstatesports.com\/sports\/womens-golf\/roster\/sabrina-langerak\/12141\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sabrina Langerak<\/a>: +19 (76-78-81=235)<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nT41.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/ballstatesports.com\/sports\/womens-golf\/roster\/jj-gregston\/12140\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">JJ Gregston<\/a>: +21 (80-77-80=237)<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nT50.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/ballstatesports.com\/sports\/womens-golf\/roster\/sarah-gallagher\/12139\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sarah Gallagher<\/a>: +24 (77-82-81=240)<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nT57.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/ballstatesports.com\/sports\/womens-golf\/roster\/jasmine-driscoll\/12137\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jasmine Driscoll<\/a>: +28 (82-81-81=244)<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nT61.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/ballstatesports.com\/sports\/womens-golf\/roster\/sophie-korthuijs\/12143\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sophie Korthuijs<\/a>: +30 (80-82-84=246)<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"COLUMBUS, Ohio &#8211; &#8211; The Ball State women&#8217;s golf team closed play in the\u00a0Therese Hession Buckeye Invitational\u00a0with a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":615653,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[566],"tags":[64,63,755,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-615652","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-golf","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-golf","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/615652","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=615652"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/615652\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/615653"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=615652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=615652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=615652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}