Tournament Results
HAMPSTEAD, Md. –Sophomore
Molly Nulty chipped in for birdie on the final hole to help seal Gettysburg College's second Centennial Conference title at the Piney Branch Golf Club on Sunday.
Gettysburg finished with a 378 to edge McDaniel College by two strokes. Junior
Caroline Nathan was the Bullets' top scorer, finishing tied for second with a 91, while Nulty and freshman
Kara McNulty each tied for fourth at 92. All three players earned all-conference accolades.
Nulty was the last Bullet to finish her round and she certainly provided the most dramatic finish in front of a crowd of spectators. After a pair of bogeys and a double-bogey on her previous three holes, she made par on the par-4 290-yard eighth hole. She capped the round with a stamp, chipping in on the par-3, 140-yard ninth for one of just six birdies on the entire course during the afternoon.
Conditions were not optimal for golf on Sunday following Saturday's virtual monsoon which rendered Piney Branch unplayable and wiped out the opening day of competition. Battling the wet and windy conditions, McDaniel took an early lead as eventual tournament medalist Jennie Weiner and runner-up Morgan Koopman walked into the clubhouse with a 90 and 91, respectively.
Gettysburg trailed throughout the day as McNulty was followed by senior
Marybeth Scott's 103 and senior
Lauren Walsh's 107. The gap closed significantly with Nathan who picked up two pars and a birdie on her final nine holes to bring the Bullets within reach and set the stage for Nulty's dramatic finish.
Gettysburg and McDaniel met eight times in 10 events this season. The Bullets finished ahead of the Green Terror in six of those competitions, but only two events were decided by more than nine strokes.
The Orange and Blue claim its second conference title following in the footsteps of the 2008 championship squad. The team also shattered its previous best scoring average for a season by shooting 360.8 over 11 rounds of competition, nearly seven strokes better than the 2008-09 squad. Every player on the roster posted a career-best scoring average with McNulty just missing the single-season scoring record by 0.6 with a team-best 84.9 average.
