Hokie ClubAUSTIN, Texas – The Virginia Tech women's golf team posted a three-day total of 888 and finished in 10th place at the 2018 NCAA Austin Regional on Wednesday afternoon. The three-day event was played at the par 72, 6,341-yard University of Texas Golf Club in Austin, Texas.
The Hokies shot rounds of 288, 293 and 307 in the regional tournament. Tech, the 14th seed in the region, was making its first-ever NCAA Regional appearance in the brief three-year history of the program.
Elizabeth Bose paced the Hokies in the final round. The junior from Norfolk, Virginia, shot a 3-under 69 on Wednesday and finished in a tie for 24th place at 219, 11 strokes behind medalist Maria Fassi of Arkansas. Bose's 69 was the top round of the day for the Hokies and the team's best individual round this week in Austin.
Amanda Hollandsworth, a redshirt junior from Floyd, Virginia, tied for 34th place at 221 and Jessica Spicer, a sophomore from Bahama, North Carolina, tied for 56th place at 227. Emily Mahar, a freshman from Brisbane, Australia, finished in 61st place at 228 and Allison Woodward, a redshirt junior from Unicoi, Tennessee, tied for 72nd at 233.
Top-seed Arkansas won the team title with a 26-under 838, 11 strokes ahead of Texas and 31 strokes ahead of Auburn, Florida and Baylor. Oklahoma finished at 6-over 870 and captured the final of six spots that will advance to the NCAA Championship in Stillwater, Oklahoma later this month.
Texas A&M finished seventh at 878, Michigan State was eighth at 882 and BYU was ninth at 885, three stokes ahead of the Hokies. Houston, UTSA, Texas Tech, Houston Baptist and Miami rounded out the top 15 in the tournament.