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Ohio Valley Conference Championship
Giraldo Wins Record Sixth Tournament of Season at OVC Championship
4/18/2018 6:02:00 PM | Women's Golf
FINAL RESULTS
MUSCLE SHOALS – Valentina Giraldo won her school-record sixth tournament of the season at the 2018 Ohio Valley Conference Women's Golf Championship on Wednesday, leading Jacksonville State to a second-place finish.
The junior from Ibague, Colombia, won the 54-hole event by three strokes over the Murray State duo of Lucila Puente Rodriguez and Moa Folke. Giraldo then was voted the OVC's Female Golfer of the Year by the league's head coaches after the conclusion of the tournament.
She carded a final-round 74 on the par-72, 6,043-yard Schoolmaster Course at The Shoals on the Robert Trent Jones Golf Trail, capping a 54-hole score of 218. It gave Giraldo the sixth individual win of her junior season, tripling the previous school record of two set by Angie Green in 2001-02.
Giraldo is the sixth Gamecock to win the OVC Golfer of the Year Award and the first since Melania Bajo Geijo in 2016. She is the first JSU player to win medalist honors at the OVC Tournament since Ornella Arrizon in 2012 and the fourth Gamecock to win since joining the league in 2003-04.
She also breaks the OVC record for wins in a season with her sixth, passing Murray State's Delaney Howson's five in 2014. She also concludes the season by leading the league with a 72.5 stroke average that also breaks her own school record of 74.06 that she set last season.
She was one of four Gamecocks that finished in the top 10 in the nine-team tournament, with fellow Colombian junior Paula Vega finishing sixth. She led the field with 39 pars and shot a final-round 75 to close a three-day 226.
The freshman duo of Ana Perez Altuna and Valentina Curet also finished in the Top 10 in their first conference championship. Altuna improved her score every day in the conference tournament, closing a 54-hole score of 227 with a 74 on Wednesday to tie for 7th.
Curet tied for 10thwith a 232 and shot 76 for the second-straight day on Wednesday. Sophomore Chloe Borders tied for 24thafter a final round 81 capped her three-day score of 240.
The runner-up finish is the fourth top five for the Gamecocks this season. Giraldo will wait to see if she earns an at-large individual bid into the NCAA Women's Golf Championship. Those individuals will be announced on Wednesday, April 25 at 4:30 p.m. CT on The Golf Channel.
MUSCLE SHOALS – Valentina Giraldo won her school-record sixth tournament of the season at the 2018 Ohio Valley Conference Women's Golf Championship on Wednesday, leading Jacksonville State to a second-place finish.
The junior from Ibague, Colombia, won the 54-hole event by three strokes over the Murray State duo of Lucila Puente Rodriguez and Moa Folke. Giraldo then was voted the OVC's Female Golfer of the Year by the league's head coaches after the conclusion of the tournament.
She carded a final-round 74 on the par-72, 6,043-yard Schoolmaster Course at The Shoals on the Robert Trent Jones Golf Trail, capping a 54-hole score of 218. It gave Giraldo the sixth individual win of her junior season, tripling the previous school record of two set by Angie Green in 2001-02.
Giraldo is the sixth Gamecock to win the OVC Golfer of the Year Award and the first since Melania Bajo Geijo in 2016. She is the first JSU player to win medalist honors at the OVC Tournament since Ornella Arrizon in 2012 and the fourth Gamecock to win since joining the league in 2003-04.
She also breaks the OVC record for wins in a season with her sixth, passing Murray State's Delaney Howson's five in 2014. She also concludes the season by leading the league with a 72.5 stroke average that also breaks her own school record of 74.06 that she set last season.
She was one of four Gamecocks that finished in the top 10 in the nine-team tournament, with fellow Colombian junior Paula Vega finishing sixth. She led the field with 39 pars and shot a final-round 75 to close a three-day 226.
The freshman duo of Ana Perez Altuna and Valentina Curet also finished in the Top 10 in their first conference championship. Altuna improved her score every day in the conference tournament, closing a 54-hole score of 227 with a 74 on Wednesday to tie for 7th.
Curet tied for 10thwith a 232 and shot 76 for the second-straight day on Wednesday. Sophomore Chloe Borders tied for 24thafter a final round 81 capped her three-day score of 240.
The runner-up finish is the fourth top five for the Gamecocks this season. Giraldo will wait to see if she earns an at-large individual bid into the NCAA Women's Golf Championship. Those individuals will be announced on Wednesday, April 25 at 4:30 p.m. CT on The Golf Channel.
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