March 4, 2007

PINEHURST, N.C. - The Marshall women's golf team will open its 2007 spring season at the 54-hole Pinehurst Challenge, hosted by the College of Charleston, beginning on Monday. The 17-team tournament will be played at the par-72, 5,978-yard Pinehurst #8.

The event begins with 36 holes on Monday and will conclude with 18 holes on Tuesday. Both days will commence with 9 a.m. shotgun starts.

Head coach Meredith Knight Rowsey will send four seniors - Amber Churchill (Dublin, Ohio), Allyson Hatcher (Wheeling, W.Va.), Tammy Mahar (Ashland, Ky.) and Stacy Wagner (Harmony, Pa.) - along with freshman Larie Lynch (Huntington, W.Va.) out on the course to begin spring play.

Hatcher was Marshall's top player during the fall season with a 79.56 stroke average. Mahar was not far behind in second place (79.86) while Churchill was in third place at 80.78.

The Herd competed in the 2006 Pinehurst Challenge, finishing in 18th place with a score of 1,023. Maryland won the team title with a 917.

Marshall joins Campbell, Charleston Southern, Coastal Carolina, College of Charleston, East Carolina, Jacksonville State, James Madison, Maryland, Memphis, N.C. State, Oregon, Penn State, Princeton, Arkansas-Little Rock, UNC Greensboro and UNC Wilmington at the Pinehurst Challenge.