Frogs head to Hooters Collegiate Match Play Championship
11/3/2007 12:00:00 AM | Women's Golf
Nov. 3, 2007
FORT WORTH, Texas -- The 24th-ranked TCU women's golf team will face No. 1 and defending national champion Duke in an opening-round contest Sunday at the 2007 Hooters Collegiate Match Play Championship in Kissimmee, Fla.
The event is held at the Ginn Reunion Resort, site of one of the LPGA Tour's showcase stops. Play will be on the Tom Watson-designed Independence Course. Nine of the holes are used during the tour's annual Ginn Open.
Invitations to the Match Play Championship were based on the final standings at the 2007 NCAA National Championships. The Mountain West Conference champion Horned Frogs finished 11th.
The Frogs are seeded 16th in the event. The winner of the TCU-Duke match will face the winner of No. 8-seed Denver versus No. 9 Oklahoma State. Other competing schools include Alabama, Auburn, Florida, Georgia, Louisville, Michigan State, New Mexico, Purdue, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas A&M and Vanderbilt.
TCU's lineup includes a pair of sophomores (Valentine Derrey, Megan O'Donnell) and a trio of freshmen (Prisela Campbell, Allyson Ferguson, Melissa Loh).
Derrey tops the Mountain West Conference while ranking 13th nationally with a 72.7 stroke average. Campbell is tied for sixth in the MWC with a 75.5 mark.
The Frogs' fall season has been highlighted by a 14-stroke victory at the Lady Paladin Invitational in Greenville, S.C. Most recently, TCU finished 10th at the Las Vegas Collegiate Showdown, an 18-team event that featured nine of the top-25 programs in the nation.
The 2007 Hooters Women's Collegiate Match Play Championship is presented by the National Golf Coaches Association in association with Hooters of America, Inc., and is co-hosted by the Central Florida Sports Commission and Ginn Reunion Resort.
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