{"id":134560,"date":"2026-01-28T05:50:21","date_gmt":"2026-01-28T05:50:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/134560\/"},"modified":"2026-01-28T05:50:21","modified_gmt":"2026-01-28T05:50:21","slug":"freshmen-earn-top-25-finishes-in-florida-university-of-nebraska","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/134560\/","title":{"rendered":"Freshmen Earn Top 25 Finishes in Florida – University of Nebraska"},"content":{"rendered":"

Husker freshmen Kaleigh Babineaux<\/a> and Ailis Tribolet<\/a> both put up top-25 finishes to lead the Nebraska women’s golf team to a ninth-place finish at the UCF Challenge – presented by PDI in Orlando on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

Babineaux, a first-year Husker from Austin, Texas, strung together three straight rounds of even-par 72 on the 6,392-yard layout of the Eagle Creek Golf Club. She finished with a three-round total of 216 to tie for 17th.<\/p>\n

Tribolet, a freshman from Chandler, Ariz., added a tie for 24th just one stroke back of Babineaux at 217 (+1). Tribolet’s tournament included back-to-back rounds of 71 (-1) on Monday and Tuesday.<\/p>\n

Redshirt junior Lauren Thiele<\/a> used an even-par 72 in the second round and a final-round 74 (+2) to move up the leaderboard into a tie for 56th at 223 (+7) in a 96-player field.<\/p>\n

Junior Hannah Kono<\/a> was Nebraska’s No. 4 finisher with a 54-hole total of 224 (+8) with back-to-back rounds of 75 (+3) after an opening-round 74 (+2) on Sunday.<\/p>\n

Sophomore Eden Lohrbach<\/a> rounded out the Husker contingent in 82nd with rounds of 75, 74 and 82 to close at 231 (+15).<\/p>\n

As a team, the Huskers finished ninth in a 16-team field at 877 (+13). Nebraska’s showing included a second-round 289 (+1), before closing with a 292 (+4). The Big Red opened the spring season with a 296 (+8).<\/p>\n

No. 7 Auburn claimed the team title with a three-round total of 840 (-24). The Tigers defeated No. 18 Mississippi State (844) by four strokes, while the hosts from No. 12 UCF finished third at 849 (-15).<\/p>\n

Auburn’s Katie Cranston took home medalist honors with a 207 (-9), one shot better than national No. 1 Avery Weed from Mississippi State and UCF’s Mila Jurine, who both finished in a tie for second at 208 (-8).<\/p>\n

Nebraska returns to action at the Texas Golf Throwdown at The Woodlands, Texas (Feb. 16-17).<\/p>\n

UCF Challenge\u00a0
Orlando, Florida
Eagle Creek Golf Club
Par 72, 6,392 Yards
January 25-27, 2026<\/p>\n

Final Results
1. #7 Auburn – 280-278-282=840 (-24)
2. #18 Mississippi State – 281-280-283=844 (-20)
3. #12 UCF – 283-282-284=849 (-15)
4. #21 Baylor – 281-285-288=854 (-10)
5. Penn State – 287-283-289=859 (-5)
6. USF – 293-285-283=861 (-3)
7. Florida Gulf Coast – 287-287-291=865 (+1)
8. #24 Kent State – 292-286-291=869 (+5)
9. Nebraska – 296-289-292=877 (+13)
10. South Alabama – 295-293-297=885 (+21)
11. North Florida – 300-295-295=890 (+26)
12. Abilene Christian – 291-303-301=895 (+31)
13. East Carolina – 295-300-303=898 (+34)
14. Charlotte – 309-296-294=899 (+35)
15. Northern Illinois – 302-292-308=902 (+38)
16. Old Dominion – 308-302-303=913 (+49)<\/p>\n

Final Individual Results
1. Katie Cranston, Auburn – 69-69-69=207 (-9)
T2. #1 Avery Weed, Mississippi State – 70-68-70=208 (-8)
T2. #53 Mila Jurine, UCF – 70-70-68=208 (-8)
T4. #74 Malena Castro, Baylor – 71-66-72=209 (-7)
T4. Leonie Wulfers, Florida Gulf Coast – 68-68-73=209 (-7)
T4. #141 Molly Brown Davidson, Auburn – 69-68-72=209 (-7)
T7. Ines Belchior, Mississippi State – 70-68-72=210 (-6)
T7. #59 Pimpisa Sisutham, UCF – 69-69-72=210 (-6)
T7. Tiphani Knight, USF – 70-71-69=210 (-6)
T10.\u00a0Amelia Wan, Baylor – 66-72-73=211 (-5)
T10. #134 Charlotte Cantonis, Auburn – 73-70-68=211 (-5)
T10. Moa Stridh, Mississippi State – 70-71-70=211 (-5)<\/p>\n

Nebraska Individuals
T17.\u00a0Kaleigh Babineaux<\/a> – 72-72-72=216 (E)
T24. Ailis Tribolet<\/a> – 75-71-71=217 (+1)
T56.\u00a0Lauren Thiele<\/a> – 77-72-74=223 (+7)
T61. Hannah Kono<\/a> – 74-75-75=224 (+8)
82. Eden Lohrbach<\/a> – 75-74-82=231 (+15)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Husker freshmen Kaleigh Babineaux and Ailis Tribolet both put up top-25 finishes to lead the Nebraska women’s golf…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":134561,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[12284,28,30,29,12787,10010,4646,12788],"class_list":{"0":"post-134560","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-florida","8":"tag-big-ten","9":"tag-florida","10":"tag-florida-headlines","11":"tag-florida-news","12":"tag-huskers","13":"tag-nebraska","14":"tag-nebraska-cornhuskers","15":"tag-nu"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134560","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=134560"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134560\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/134561"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=134560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=134560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=134560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}