Reporting was contributed by Zach Hailey.<\/p>\n
The women’s golf team participated in the Great American Conference Championship this past weekend in Hot Springs, Ark. Junior Brittany Marquez shot 11-over 227, which broke the school’s previous 54-hole record of 11-over 228 set by Emily Plyler last season.<\/p>\n
“I am pretty excited about breaking another school record,” Marquez said. “Last year I broke the 18-hole and 36-hole records, and it is awesome that now I hold the 54-hole record as well.”<\/p>\n
Individually Marquez tied for second in the championship’s standings. The Lady Bisons finished eighth overall out of nine teams.<\/p>\n
Marquez said the team played hard this spring. Personally, she said she has not played her best.<\/p>\n
“I felt like I played my heart out this tournament and the results showed that I did,” Marquez said.<\/p>\n
For the men’s golf team, senior Lucas Collins received All-Tournament honors. He finished with a 3-under 69, tying the best round of golf in his career. Collins placed sixth overall.<\/p>\n
In the first round of the tournament on Sunday, Harding shot a 300. Due to a rain on Monday, the team played 36 holes on Tuesday. Harding shot a 306 in the second round. The team fired 290 in the third round, which was the top single-round score for the Bisons in a conference tournament in the past nine years. Harding finished at 896 leaving them in sixth place overall.<\/p>\n
According to sophomore Alex Williamson, the overall season went well, but there is always room for improvement in the coming years.<\/p>\n
“It was a pretty good season from start to finish but not quite as good as we would have liked,” Williamson said. “(We had) a lot of good first rounds, but bad second rounds kept us from really finishing good in a lot of tournaments. We won twice which was one short of our goal, but from start to finish, we had a good year overall.”<\/p>\n
Head coach Dustin Howell said Collins and Williamson rose to the occasion this season.<\/p>\n
“Those guys have stepped up when it counts, and I couldn’t be more proud of them,” Howell said. “I put a lot of pressure on them at the end of the year, as they knew it would be their job to fire a low number and lead the team. Skill and experience was huge at Red Apple and our conference tournament.”<\/p>\n
Howell said the past season was filled with excitement as the team had two victories, the most in a season for the Bisons since 2010. He also said his favorite memory was the team playoff victory over Southeastern Oklahoma University.<\/p>\n
“The guys wanted to defend our home tournament, and they gutted it out to the very end,” Howell said. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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