The Ferris State University women’s golf team claimed its sec­ond tour­na­ment cham­pi­onship of the 2010-11 season.

The Bulldogs cap­tured a first place fin­ish at the Ohio Dominican Give 18 Fore Cancer Classic in Pataskala, Ohio, this week­end. The team recorded a 643 two-round team stroke total.

“We’ve been work­ing hard in prac­tice and con­di­tion­ing,” junior Erin Fuchik said. “We’ve been the under­dogs since we can’t prac­tice out­side because of the weather. We want to show every­one that we can still com­pete even though we’re a north­ern team.”

The Bulldogs cap­tured six of the top 11 indi­vid­ual places, includ­ing four of the top five.

Leading the way for FSU were Fuchik and fresh­man Emily Rohdy. Both Fuchik and Rohdy gar­nered first place tying hon­ors with 159 reg­u­la­tion scores in the 36-hole tournament.

Rohdy earned indi­vid­u­al­ist medal­ist recog­ni­tion fol­low­ing a play­off on the par 72.

Ohio Dominican University hosted the con­test which took place at the 6,072 yard Cumberland Trail Golf Course.

Freshman Jacqueline DeBoer took fourth place with a 162 stroke total. Junior Brooke Rodes fin­ished fifth with a 163 stroke total in a non-scoring appearance.

The Bulldogs are cur­rently ranked sixth in the NCAA Division II East Region Rankings Poll. According to Fuchik, the team’s goals are to fin­ish in the top four in every tour­na­ment, qual­ify for region­als, and earn a national bid.

“The girls have been play­ing so well,” Fuchik said. “We have all the momen­tum we need to carry us through this next match and our tournaments.”

FSU is sched­uled to tee off against Grand Valley State University in a dual match Saturday.

“We’ve done every­thing we’ve wanted to in prepa­ra­tion,” Fuchik said. “It will be a really good com­pe­ti­tion, and I have no doubts we can take them [GVSU] down.” n

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