St. Mary’s held a two-stroke lead over Northern Colorado after the first round of the Bear Spring Invitational, but the Bears outshot the Rattlers on day two to win the tournament by four strokes. The tournament, hosted by the University of Northern Colorado, was held April 13-14 at the Pelican Lakes Country Club in Windsor, Colo. UNC’s Meagan Dahlberg shot a 72 on the second day to win the tournament with a seven-over 151. The Rattlers’ Jillian Wyne, in third-place after the first round shot a 79 to finish in second with a 12-over 156. St. Mary’s Kate Meyer moved up from seventh to finish third (13-over, 157) while first-day co-leader Catherine Carvajal finished in a tie for fourth with two UNC players (14-over, 158), Chelsea Silver finished tied for 19th (20-over, 164) and Nicole Wyne finished tied for 23rd (23-over, 167).

Northern Colorado is the first Division II squad to finish ahead of St. Mary’s in any of the 10 tournaments in which the Rattlers have competed during the 2002-03 season. The top four spots at the Bear Spring Invitational were all taken by teams in the top 15 of Golfstat.com’s statistical rankings; #4 Northern Colorado, #3 St. Mary’s, #13 Nebraska-Omaha and #9 Western New Mexico.

Team Top Ten

   1 Northern Colorado        318  311    629   +53
 
   2 St. Mary's U. (TX)       316  317    633   +57 

   3 Nebraska - Omaha         329  308    637   +61 

   4 Western New Mexico       322  317    639   +63 

   5 Grand Canyon U.       329  330    659   +83 

   6 Nebraska-Kearney, U.  347  323    670   +94 

   7 Mesa State               343  332    675   +99 

   8 Chadron State Coll       354  350    704  +128 

   9 Rockhurst University     374  345    719  +143 

  10 Montana St-Billings      442  452    894  +318 


Individual Top Ten

   1  Meagan Dahlberg       N Colorado   79   72    151    +7 

   2  Jillian Wyne          StMarys-TX   77   79    156   +12 

   3  Kate Meyer            StMarys-TX   80   77    157   +13 

T  4  Catherine Carvajal    StMarys-TX   76   82    158   +14 

T  4  Emily Russell         N Colorado   80   78    158   +14 

T  4  Petra Lindgren        N Colorado   79   79    158   +14 

T  7  Amanda Garrett        W New Mex.  76   83    159   +15 

T  7  Jessica Allee         Mesa State   82   77    159   +15 

T  7  Kim Cammer            W New Mex.  81   78    159   +15 

T  7  Tanis Hastmann        NE-Omaha     85   74    159   +15

Complete results for the tournament can be found at Golfstat.com.

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