KEWADIN, Mich..—The Bellarmine women's golf team opened its 2023-24 season on Sunday and Monday at Central Michigan's A-Ga-Ming Invitational, and if the early results are true a indicator, it appears the Knights could be in for a record-breaking season.  In fact, the records have already begun falling.
 
Graduate Student Alaina Schmitt fired a closing round 67 (-5) to break the Bellarmine record for individual low round (both aggregate score and relation to par).  The outstanding finish also elevated her to a runner-up finish in the event at 215 (-1).  Schmitt was one of only two players to finish the 54-hole event under par with Oakland's Bridget Boczar capturing medalist honors with a tournament record 206 total (65-74-67).
 
Schmitt wasn't the only Knight putting up good numbers.  The team as whole also made program history.  The Knights' second round team score of 299 marked the first time a Bellarmine women's team has shot under 300 while playing a par 72 course.  Sandwiched around the 299 were rounds of 306 and 301 as Bellarmine finished in fourth place in the 13-team field.
 
Newcomers Rozlyn Rooke and Presli Webb made an immediate impact by breaking 80 in every round.  Rooke, a sophomore transfer from Texas State, finished in a tie for 26th after rounds of 79-73-76.  Webb, a freshman from Conway, Arkansas, was four shots back and tied for 38th.  
 
Just one shot back was Josephine Bonin, who gutted out rounds of 74, 80, and 79 after suffering a sprained ankle on her very first hole of the tournament. Rounding out the Bellarmine top five was Jessica Stephens, whose second round 78 helped the Knights break 300.

COMPLETE BELLARMINE RESULTS:
 
9/3-4/2023 -- A-Ga-Ming Invitational
A-Ga-Ming Resort (Sunshine GC) -- Kewadin, MI
Par 72, 6000 yards -- 13 teams, 80 players

Bellarmine	306	299	301	906	+42	4th
Alaina Schmitt	75	73	67	215	-1	2nd
Rozlyn Rooke	79	73	76	228	+12	t-26th
Presli Webb	78	75	79	232	+16	t-38th
Josephine Bonin	74	80	79	233	+17	t-40th
Jessica Stephens	83	78	83	244	+28	t-60th

 
For full tournament results go to the Golf Genius page at https://www.golfgenius.com/pages/9854259746557709240
 
Bellarmine's next action comes on Sept. 18-19 at The Velvet, a 54-hole event hosted by Murray State University at the Country Club of Paducah.
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