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Lowest round caps of conference championships
By ANDY CRAIG Staff Reporter,
2024-04-21
Then-sophomore Momo Sugiyama follows through on a tee shot at the 2023 Big Ten Championship at Fox Chapel Golf Club in Pittsburgh. Sugiyama led Purdue in the 2024 championship in a tie for 10th. Purdue Athletics
Purdue shot its lowest round of the Big Ten Tournament on Sunday, led by Ashley Kozlowski with a two-under score, which was also the lowest for the team all tournament.
The Boilermakers took on the other 14 conference teams in Havre de Grace, Maryland, an hour and a half northeast of the Terrapins' home and two hours south of the Scarlet Knights’. The 54-hole event got underway Friday, which saw the Boilers in fifth after Day 1.
Kozlowski and Momo Sugiyama have led the way in all six spring outings this season, each claiming the top Purdue score three times. Over the weekend that spot belonged to Sugiyama, who was coming off a fourth-place finish at the Buckeye Invitational the weekend prior.
That same invite saw Kozlowski finishing seventh, and Purdue finishing third overall. The Ohio outing was something of a conference showdown preview, as 11 of the 14 Big Ten teams competed against each other last week.
In that meeting, the Buckeyes took first on their home course, gapping second-place Michigan State by 20 strokes, followed by Purdue in third and Indiana in fourth.
BIG TEN CHAMPIONSHIP TEAM SCORES
1.) Indiana: 856 (-8)
2.) Michigan State: 857 (-7)
3.) Northwestern: 863 (-1)
T4.) Purdue: 864 (E)
T4.) Michigan: 864 (E)
6.) Ohio State: 872 (+8)
7.) Maryland: 873 (+9)
8.) Wisconsin: 882 (+18)
9.) Minnesota: 884 (+20)
10.) Nebraska: 893 (+29)
T11.) Rutgers: 898 (+34)
T11.) Illinois: 898 (+34)
T13.) Penn State: 902 (+38)
T13.) Iowa: 902 (+38)
Senior Jocelyn Bruch shot the best through the first nine for the Boilers all tournament, posting an even 36 on Day 1 before going two-under in both the following rounds. Bruch finished tied for 14th overall, just behind Sugiyama, who ended up tied for 10th.
The team’s next potential outing could be the NCAA Regionals, starting on May 6. Selection Wednesday this week will determine if Purdue is headed to one of the six regionals.
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