October
8, 2005
IOWA
CITY , IOWA . . . Behind its first-ever individual
Medalist, Wartburg College won its second straight Iowa Intercollegiate
Athletic Conference (IIAC) women’s golf Championship after
shooting a final round 343 at Finkbine Golf Club on Saturday.
The Knights led the Tournament wire-to-wire and posted the low
team score each of the four rounds.
Wartburg
finished the 72-hole Championship at 1304, outdistancing second-place
Buena Vista (1373) by an IIAC-record 69 strokes and third-place
Simpson (1378). Loras finished fourth with a 1381.
Senior Erin
Dohlman, like her team, led the individual race wire-to-wire.
She finished the 72-hole Championship with a 314 (77-73-78-86)
and finished 15 strokes ahead of Buena Vista’s Jennifer
Stork. Dohlman’s 314 is the lowest total since the Conference
went to a 72-hole Championship in 2003. The 15-stroke margin
of victory equals the Conference Championship record set in
1999 by Simpson’s Hannah Willenborg over Buena Vista’s
Debbie Zorn in 1999.
A trio of
Wartburg golfers, Bre Pleggenkuhle, Andrea Schiltz and Megan
Cress finished 19-strokes back with a 333. Following a sudden
death playoff, Pleggenkuhle finished third, Schiltz finished
fourth and Cress finished fifth. It is the first time in Conference
history teammates have finished in four of the top-five spots.
Simpson’s
Steph Schenfeld finished sixth with a 335 followed by Wartburg’s
Kate Thompson who won a playoff with Central’s Sharilyne
Hoekstra after both golfers carded a 336. Luther’s Lyndsay
Thies (337) and Loras’ Amy Kemp (342) round out the All-Conference
honorees as top-10 finishers.
Dohlman
was selected Conference Most Valuable Player for her performance
during the season which included a 78.8 stroke average and eight
rounds in the 70s including a streak of six straight that ended
on Saturday.
Loras’
Denise Udelhofen was named IIAC Coach of the Year after leading
the Duhawks to a fourth-place Conference finish. The team improved
from its sixth-place finish in 2004.
Final
results are here.
2005
All-Conference Team is here.
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