HOWEY-IN-THE-HILLS, Fla. --- The ODAC women's golf contingent did have quite as much success at Mission Inn Resort & Golf Club in Howey-in-the-Hills, Fla., this week as they did at Bay Oaks Country Club in Houston, Texas, last year, but any time you finish a campaign playing among the NCAA Division III's best at a national championship, you chalk that up as a good season.
That notion is further buoyed by postseason awards earned by a pair of competitors. Bridgewater College senior Christina Herbert, who won the Division III individual championship in 2017, received WGCA First Team All-American honors for the third straight season in addition to being named to the WGCA All-East Region team. She was joined on the latter list by Washington and Lee University senior Mary-Frances Hall. It is the second time Hall has earned WGCA All-East honors after picking up a second team selection in 2015 as a first-year competition.
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Herbert and W&L's squad of Hall, Liza Freed, Hannah Jones, Griffin Foultz, and Beth Ann Townsend spent three days on the par 73 track at Mission Hills, coming up just short of qualifying for the final round.
BC's Herbert capped her stellar career with rounds of 77, 89, and 83 before bowing out of the championship. The three-time ODAC Golfer of the Year had previously won four events and finished in the top-10 in all nine starts this season.
For Washington and Lee, the team came up 12 strokes shy of qualifying for the final round as a unit. Wisconsin-Whitewater took the last spot with a three-round score of 1,000. Washington and Lee posted team rounds of 339, 338, and 335 to come in at 1,012.
Hall led the Generals with a 250 total (86-81-83), while Townsend (84-85-84) and Foultz (85-84-85) finished within a stroke of each other at 253 and 254, respectively. Freed (84-91-83) chimed in at 258, while Jones (92-88-88) capped her season at 268.
Claremont-Mudd-Scripps was the eventual winner of the team competition at 93-over 1,261. The Athenas' Margaret Loncki won the individual medal by three strokes at 11-over 303 (77-75-72-79).