By Troy Shockley, Helena IR

Carroll’s first female golfer to reach the NAIA national tournament, Jackie Mee didn’t head to Nebraska satisfied to just be there. So, when she failed to make the cut Thursday after a third-round 83 — her three-round total of 11-over, 251 left her in a tie for 91st — the sophomore wasn’t entirely pleased with her performance.

“I did a little better than yesterday, but not as good as I had hoped,” she said. “Coming in, my goal was to make the cut. And I just wasn’t playing my best gold this week. It’s a tough course. And the rough was really, really tough. If you got into the rough, you were lucky to save par. Usually, my driver is my strength, but I just wasn’t hitting well this week. So that led to a lot of tough holes.”

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By the Helena IR

Carroll College golfer Jackie Mee carded an 87 for the second round of the NAIA Women’s Golf Championships in Lincoln, Neb., on Wednesday. Mee’s 15-over par dropped her down to 91st place in the 144-person tourney, well below her 57th placing after Tuesday’s first round.

“Jackie had a much tougher day than yesterday, she just couldn’t get in a good rhythm,” Saints coach Bennett MacIntyre said, referring to Mee’s first-round 81. “She had a double bogey on the first hole, and then bogeyed the next four in a row. She recovered enough to get a birdie and some pars, but then on the back nine she had another double bogey and a triple bogey. It seemed like Jackie was just fighting with her driver the whole time, with one tough lie after another.”

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By Troy Shockley, Helena IR

Jackie Mee, the first female golfer to ever represent Carroll College at the NAIA Women’s Golf Championships, got off to a bit of a rough start Tuesday.

Still, she remains confident. Playing in the opening round of the national tournament at Wilderness Ridge Golf Club in Lincoln, Neb., Mee got into some trouble on her second hole of the day. She carded a birdie on her first hole, but the second wasn’t so kind.

“This is just a whole new atmosphere that I’m not used to,” she said. “I started out really well on the first hole but I just kind of hit a bad tee shot on the second and the wind blew it out of bounds. I was thinking, ‘I still have 16 holes to go, I have to try to scrape something together here.’

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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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