2016 MVC Women's Golf Championship - Sun, Apr 17th thru Tue, Apr 19th

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The Lady Shocks have been installed as the pre-tournament favorite to win the 2016 MVC Women's Golf Championship hosted by Loyola and played at Harborside International Golf Center's Port Course. The course is a par-72, 6,000-yard course, located in the south Chicago.

Missouri State is picked 2nd and Bradley 3rd and should give the Shocks a strong challenge. I assume Loyola, picked 5th, will have the advantage of being familiar with the course.

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The Shockers (+9) have a two stroke lead over Bradley (+11) with Indiana State another seven strokes back and Loyola, eight back. At one time on the back nine, their lead was six strokes. The #1 golfer for the Shocks, Meghan Schuetz Jack, had the discarded round at +7 while the others were +2, +2, +3 and +2.

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The Shockers (+9) have a two stroke lead over Bradley (+11) with Indiana State another seven strokes back and Loyola, eight back. At one time on the back nine, their lead was six strokes. The #1 golfer for the Shocks, Meghan Schuetz Jack, had the discarded round at +7 while the others were +2, +2, +3 and +2.

Pretty solid day for the Lady Shocks. Good balance scoring outside of Meghan. I was expecting MSU and Bradley to give the Shocks a run for the title. Bradley is right there only 2 shots behind the Shocks. Indiana State is in 3rd place 9 shots off the pace.

However, Missouri State who was picked to finish 2nd and have played very competitively with the Shocks in a couple of tournaments this spring had a very poor day today and find themselves in dead last 23 shots behind the Shocks at +32.

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In early 2nd round action with 3 holes played the Shocks are at even par. However, the individual scores don't seem to match up. The Shocks best 4 scores after 3 holes were
E, -1, -2, E which would put them at -3 for the day. Not sure how to reconcile that.

Maria Alejandra Villalobos has the throw away score right now as she triple-bogeyed #1.

Update: They now have the team leaderboard synced up with the Shocks having 3-6 holes on their scorecards. The Shocks have picked up a bogey but are now -2. Bradley is -1 on the day so they remain right on the heels of the Lady Shocks.

The top 3 teams coming into Round 2 (WSU, Bradley and Indiana State) are paired in the same groups.

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After 6 holes in Round 2 Bradley is 4-under on the day and has edged in front of the Shockers who are now 1-+under on the day. Bradley is at +7 for the tournament while the Shocks now sit at +8.

Indiana State is in 3rd but well off the pace at 22-over 2 shots ahead of SIU in 4th. MSU is even on the day and has moved in to 7th but hard to see how they can overcome their bad Round 1 as they are stills siting at 32-over for the tournament.

Both Bradley and the Shocks have a 3-stroke spread between their current throw away score and their 4th best score at this point.

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9 holes now in the books for the leaders and the Shocks have moved back in front. The Shocks are -2 on the day and -7 for the tournament. Bradley is now at -1 on the day and -10 for the tournament.

Taryn Torgerson is -3 for the round and has move into a tie for medalist honors at -1 for the tournament.

Slight correction 3 players for each of the two team leaders have registered scores for 9 holes. Holes 7, 8 and 9 still pending for 2 players on each of the two leading teams.

[1972Shocker]

The team leaderboard doesn't seem to be functioning properly again but the individual scorecards show that with 3 players each scoring completed through 9 holes and 2 players each through 12 holes I have the Shocks at 1 over on the day and 10 over for the tournament and Bradley at even par for the day and 11 over for the tournament.

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Bryce Schoeder ran into trouble on Nos. 11 and 12 going double-bogey, bogey to go from +1 to +4 on her round. However, Maria Alejandra Villalobos has rallied from her opening hole triple-bogey and another front 9 bogey with a couple of birdies since then to go from +4 to +2. Bryce's score is now the current throwaway score.

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Megan Schuetz Jack is in the clubhouse at +1 on the day for the Shocks. Bryce Schroeder has stumbled through the middle part of her round going double-bogey, bogey, bogey, bogey on holes 11 through 14 that puts her at +6. We need Taryn, Maria and Gavrila to finish off their final 3 holes in solid fashion.

Update: Maria Alejandra does her job finishing off par-par-par and a very nice 2-over round considering she opened the round with a triple-bogey.

Not sure what is going on with Indiana State's scores. Their player that was in Megan's pairing still only has a score through 15 posted even though Megan and the Bradley player pair with her have had scores posted 20 minutes ago. The other 7 teams have been totally finished for even longer than that.

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Bryce Schroeder has stumbled through the middle part of her round going double-bogey, bogey, bogey, bogey on holes 11 through 14 that puts her at +6.

Fortunately, for the Shocks, the Bradley #2 also stumbled badly on the home half, going from -3 to +3. Unfortunately for the Braves her score will be used (not that it is an awful score), because they also have a +7 and a +11.

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Gavrilla does her job as well going birdie-par-bogey to finish at a very solid +1 for the round.

Just waiting no to see how Taryn finishes up.

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Fortunately, for the Shocks, the Bradley #2 also stumbled badly on the home half, going from -3 to +3. Unfortunately for the Braves her score will be used (not that it is an awful score), because they also have a +7 and a +11.

Yeah, the Shocks were helped greatly by Maria Alejandra righting her ship and putting up a solid score. That gave the Shocks the ability to have one of the other players stumble without hurting too much. Bradley's two highest scores were +7 and +11 which did not give them any room to absorb any other stumbles.

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Taryn finishes par-par-birdie and the Shocks will finish at a very solid 1-over on the days round. Taryin finished today 3-under and is now 1-under for the Tournament which and in strong contention for medalist honors.

Now just waiting to see what there lead will be heading into the final round tomorrow.

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Looks like Indiana State has finished strong at 1-under for the round and 17-under for the Tournament trailing the shocks by 7 strokes heading into Tuesday's final round.

Bradley struggled a bit on the back 9 and finished at 10-over for the round and 21-over for the Tournament trailing the Shocks by 11 strokes.

It is another 11 strokes back to SIU in 4th place.

At this point it is a 3-team tournament. Nice to have a 7 stroke lead but that is not by any means an insurmountable lead in collegiate team golf.

In looking at the scores the Shocks had scores of -3, +1, +1 and +2 with Bryce's +7 being the throw away score. At least Bryce did birdie her final hole so hopefully that will help her psyche a bit heading into tomorrow's final round.

Indiana State had scores of -1, E, E and E and threw out a 10-over round from their 5th golfer.

Indiana State is a surprise as they were picked to finish 7th. I had expected Missouri State and Bradley to give the Shocks their biggest challenge. Bradley has been very tough until they ran into some struggles on the back 9 today. Missouri State is out of it 41 over par and 31 shots off the Shockers pace.

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Coach McCurdy predicts Bryce will bounce back tomorrow. I'm with you there Coach.