SOUTH HADLEY, Mass. -- The Bates women's golf team wrapped up their spring season by placing 12th out of 17 schools at the two-day Jack Leaman Invitational, hosted by Amherst at The Orchards Golf Club.
In her final collegiate golf tournament, senior
Alex Voight-Shelley (State College, Pa.) helped lead the way for the Bobcats, tying for 46th place out of 97 competitors with first-year teammate
Mehar Nijjer (Chandigarh, India) as both players tallied a two-day score of 164. Voight-Shelley had the low round of the tournament for the Bates team, shooting an 80 on Saturday and an 84 on Sunday. Niijer was consistent, firing back-to-back rounds of 82.
Competing as an individual, first-year
Victoria Adams (Winchester, Mass.) finished one stroke behind Voight-Shelley and Nijjer, shooting an 85 on Saturday, and improving by five strokes with an 80 on Sunday. Her two-day score of 165 was good for 54th place.
Sophomore
Ruby Haylock (Hartford, Maine) also placed in the top 60, tying for 59th place with a two-day score of 167.
The Bobcats shot 666 as a team, five strokes ahead of 13th-place Babson and just four strokes back of 11th-place Christopher Newport.
At the tournament, the Bobcats celebrated graduating seniors Voight-Shelley,
Grace Acton (Harvard, Mass.) and
Nerea Barranco Aramburu (Zarautz, Spain), with Barranco Aramburu graduating in three years.