Troy University Athletics
Monday, April 14
Loxley, Ala.
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Troy University
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Sun Belt Championships
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Women’s Golf Set for Sun Belt Championships
4/13/2014 12:51:00 PM | Golf (W)
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TROY, Ala. – The Troy women's golf team heads to the Sun Belt Conference Championship which gets underway on Monday at the Steelwood Country Club in Loxley, Ala. The Trojans enter the Sun Belt Championship ranked third in the league based on the current Golf Stat relative rankings.
"I feel like the team should come in feeling pretty confident after a couple of good tournaments," head coach Bart Barnes said. "We finished third at Georgia State where we broke 290 for the second time this season and then went to Athens and took out No. 50 Georgia in match play on their home track."
Troy enters the 54-hole tournament ranked 89th nationally and behind only Texas State (57) and Georgia State (65) in the league. Arkansas State (120), ULM (123), South Alabama (137), UALR (150) and Western Kentucky (176) round out the tournament field.
"We've just got to play together for a whole tournament," Barnes said of what the Trojans need to do to win the Sun Belt Championship. "They don't have to go out and play above their capabilities. They've shown at times that when the whole team is playing well together we can play with anybody and that's what we are going to be looking for."
The Trojans will have three of the top 19 ranked golfers in the league in their lineup led by freshman Fátima Fernández Cano. The Spain native leads Troy with a 76.05 stroke average and ranks 10th in the Sun Belt in Golf Stat's comparative rankings. Cano has four top-10 finishes and six top-15 finishes this season in eight tournaments.
Langley Vannoy ranks 17th in Golf Stat and carries a 76.79 stroke average in the championship while Taylor McGraw ranks 19th in the league with a 77.09 stroke average. Becca Horner (77.32), who had one of the strongest fall seasons on the team, and Brooke Spinks (78.09), who tied for sixth on the course back in the fall, round out Troy's lineup.
The Trojans played in a seven-team tournament at the Steelwood Country Club back in the fall and Barnes thinks those two rounds should give his team a slight advantage.
"You would think that it would have to help just a little bit," Barnes said. "The course when we played it in the fall played firm and fast. You would hope a couple of extra rounds on it would give you a little extra knowledge that the other teams missed out on by not playing the fall tournament."
Troy will be in a group with South Alabama and ULM and will tee off beginning at 9:25 a.m.
TROY, Ala. – The Troy women's golf team heads to the Sun Belt Conference Championship which gets underway on Monday at the Steelwood Country Club in Loxley, Ala. The Trojans enter the Sun Belt Championship ranked third in the league based on the current Golf Stat relative rankings.
"I feel like the team should come in feeling pretty confident after a couple of good tournaments," head coach Bart Barnes said. "We finished third at Georgia State where we broke 290 for the second time this season and then went to Athens and took out No. 50 Georgia in match play on their home track."
Troy enters the 54-hole tournament ranked 89th nationally and behind only Texas State (57) and Georgia State (65) in the league. Arkansas State (120), ULM (123), South Alabama (137), UALR (150) and Western Kentucky (176) round out the tournament field.
"We've just got to play together for a whole tournament," Barnes said of what the Trojans need to do to win the Sun Belt Championship. "They don't have to go out and play above their capabilities. They've shown at times that when the whole team is playing well together we can play with anybody and that's what we are going to be looking for."
The Trojans will have three of the top 19 ranked golfers in the league in their lineup led by freshman Fátima Fernández Cano. The Spain native leads Troy with a 76.05 stroke average and ranks 10th in the Sun Belt in Golf Stat's comparative rankings. Cano has four top-10 finishes and six top-15 finishes this season in eight tournaments.
Langley Vannoy ranks 17th in Golf Stat and carries a 76.79 stroke average in the championship while Taylor McGraw ranks 19th in the league with a 77.09 stroke average. Becca Horner (77.32), who had one of the strongest fall seasons on the team, and Brooke Spinks (78.09), who tied for sixth on the course back in the fall, round out Troy's lineup.
The Trojans played in a seven-team tournament at the Steelwood Country Club back in the fall and Barnes thinks those two rounds should give his team a slight advantage.
"You would think that it would have to help just a little bit," Barnes said. "The course when we played it in the fall played firm and fast. You would hope a couple of extra rounds on it would give you a little extra knowledge that the other teams missed out on by not playing the fall tournament."
Troy will be in a group with South Alabama and ULM and will tee off beginning at 9:25 a.m.
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