FRESNO, Calif. \u2014 The Cal Poly Women’s Golf team delivered a memorable performance at the Fresno State Classic, held March 2-3 at Fort Washington GCC, securing a second-place finish overall. The Mustangs posted a final team score of +33, finishing behind only a No. 10 Pepperdine team that took the title at 11-under.<\/p>\n
Cal Poly opened the tournament with a steady first round (+12). The team showed improvement in the second round, carding 8-over, before a final-round 13-over on Tuesday solidified their runner-up position. The Mustangs held off some current and future Big West foes UC Riverside (+34), CSUN (+40), Cal Baptist (+41), and Cal State Bakersfield (+52).<\/p>\n
Individually, the Mustangs were paced by an outstanding performance from Nicole Koong. Koong was in prime second-place position over the first two rounds, firing an opening 1-under 71 and following it up with a 70. A final-round 76 moved her to a tie for seventh place overall (+1). Koong also tied her two-round season best 141 strokes and was one stroke away from her three-round best of 216.<\/p>\n
Sara Torres also contributed a strong top-20 finish for the Mustangs. Torres opened with a solid 2-over 74 and added rounds of 77 and 76 to land in a tie for 16th place (+11). Alex Flier finished just behind in a tie for 21st after posting consistent rounds of 78, 76, and 74, and set new career bests for two and three round strokes.<\/p>\n
Maddy Saysanasongkham rounded out the scoring for the team, climbing the leaderboard with a final-round 75 to finish in a tie for 28th at 15-over-par. Competing as an individual, Sarah Yoo also had a solid tournament, placing in a tie for 25th with a 54-hole total of 14-over.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FRESNO, Calif. \u2014 The Cal Poly Women’s Golf team delivered a memorable performance at the Fresno State Classic,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":203538,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[112,114,113],"class_list":["post-203537","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fresno","tag-fresno","tag-fresno-headlines","tag-fresno-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203537","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=203537"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203537\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/203538"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=203537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=203537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=203537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}