CORPUS CHRISTI – Linnea Olsson finished third at the Islanders Collegiate Invitational as the East Texas A&M University women's golf team placed fifth among 11 teams at the Corpus Christi Country Club.
 
Olsson (Beddingestrand, Sweden) carded her first top five performance as a Lion, totaling a score of 224 (72-71-81) in the three-round tournament. She came into the day being tied for the lead. A&M-Corpus Christi's Elsa Tornvall won the individual medal on her home course by two strokes over HCU's Alyssa Stewart.
 
"A couple bright spots from the week is Linnea's top-3 finish as well as a few things around the greens clicking a bit more than the last tournament," said director of golf Brian Dolehide.
 
"We've got a few weeks to string everything together with our ball striking and short game coming into HCU early March!"
 
In the team leaderboard, HCU edged out UTRGV by four strokes to take the team title. The Huskies shot 902 as a team, while the Lions totaled a score 934 to finish in fifth, 13 strokes back of Blinn College.
 
Marie Baertz (Luxembourg) posted a score of 233 (77-77-79) to tie for 20^th place, then Marie Naeher (Neuenbuerg, Germany) placed in a tie for 31^st place with a score of 239 (75-84-80).
 
To round out the Lions, Tais Moreno (Santa Cruz, Bolivia) finished 33^rd with a score of 240 (77-80-83), while Gimmena Errecart (Mar Del Plata, Argentina) shot a 256 (88-82-86) for 53^rd place.
 
UP NEXT
The Lions are off the next two weeks and back in action at the Riverbend Intercollegiate in Sugar Land on March 9-10.
 

Pos.	Team	Round 1	Round 2	Round 3	Total
1	HCU	299	297	306	902
2	UTRGV	295	294	317	906
3	Texas A&M-Corpus Christi	292	306	320	918
4	Blinn College	300	309	312	921
5	EAST TEXAS A&M	301	310	323	934
6	Lamar	310	324	316	950
7	New Mexico JC	316	321	319	956
8	Weatherford College 958	316	322		320
9	McLennan CC	324	318	344	986
10	Valparaiso	332	332	338	1002

 

5	EAST TEXAS A&M	301	310	323	934
3	Linnea Olsson	72	71	81	224
T20	Marie Baertz	77	77	79	233
T31	Marie Naeher	75	84	80	239
33	Tais Moreno	77	80	83	240
53	Gimena Errecart	88	82	86	256