By the Helena IR

The Carroll College golf program will be represented for the first time ever at the NAIA Women’s Golf National Championships when Saints golfer Jackie Mee tees it up Tuesday in Nebraska. Mee will start on the 10th hole and will play alongside Katie Legge from Cumberland (Tenn.) and Jordan Schaardt of Peru State (Neb.). The 19th Annual Championship is being played at Wilderness Ridge Golf Club in Lincoln, Neb.

Mee qualified for the championship by winning the Frontier Conference Championships April 29-30 in Missoula. The four-day championship has a cut after the third round. Mee must be among the top 40 individuals to advance.

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The Carroll College men’s golf team is sitting in second place after the first day of the Frontier championships in Missoula, while the Saints Jackie Mee is leading the women’s individual tournament.

Carroll’s men carded a score of 601 after 36 holes, eight strokes behind leader Lewis and Clark State College’s 593. Taylor Ratcliff, a junior from Fairfield, shot a 2 under par 70 for the final round (76-70—146), and is just two strokes behind the leader.

Capital grad Ben Ternes was next low for the Hilltoppers, shooting a 71-78—149.

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By the Helena IR

Heading into the final regular season tournament of the year, Carroll College’s Jackie Mee held a narrow, 3-stroke lead for conference MVP honors. The sophomore couldn’t overcome a difficult first round at the Westminster Invitational, however, and a ninth-place finish on Tuesday resulted in a slide down the season-long leaderboard, into third. Heather Bruce of Lewis-Clark State — helped by the Frontier Conference’s low score of the year in her first round this week — won the invite and top conference honors.

The top five finishers are named first team all-conference while those finishing in places 6-10 are second team selections.

The Saints women finished fourth at Westminster and third in the final conference standings. The men’s team as a whole was third at the invite and in the final standings.

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By the Helena IR

The Carroll College men’s golf team sits in second, five shots back, at the Westminster Invitational after Monday’s first round. The Carroll women, meanwhile, are fourth.The final round of the tournament, being played in Salt Lake City, will be today.

Sophomore Connor Hausauer is the top Carroll golfer on the men’s side through the first day. His two-round 144 has him in fourth, five strokes back.

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By the Helena IR

Carroll golf teams will tee it up today and Tuesday at Wingpointe Golf Course in Salt Lake City, Utah at the final regular season conference tournament of the year. The 54-hole event is hosted by Westminster College.

Teams will play 36 holes today and the final 18 holes on Tuesday. Up for grabs are the final placements for All-Conference honors and Conference MVP honors.  Several Carroll golfers enter the tournament with a chance to grab some of those spots.  

On the men’s side, Colin Gunstream sits in sixth place in the conference, just one shot out of the top five and first team All-Conference honors. Senior teammates Nick Shull and Ben Ternes are tied for 10th and sophomore Connor Hausauer is four shots back in 13th place.

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By the Helena IR

Carroll College’s Jackie Mee was named the Frontier Conference women’s golfer of the week on Monday. Mee, a sophomore from Libby, became the first women’s golfer to win a tournament in Saints history at the University of Great Falls Invitational over the weekend. Her three-round scores were 80, 80 and 76.

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By Amber Kuehn, Helena IR

After finishing Monday’s round of the Great Falls Invitational golf tournament tied for third, Jackie Mee felt she could have played better. Tuesday she got a little revenge on the course.

The Carroll College sophomore fired a 76 at Meadowlark Country Club (par-72) to capture the individual women’s title. In doing so, she made a little Saints history. According to Carroll College, Mee is the first female golfer at the school to win a Frontier Conference tournament. Making that achievement all the more special is the fact that Mee’s brother, Jim, became the first men’s golfer in the 15-year history of the program to win a tournament last year.

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