BURLINGTON, N.C. (JMU Athletics) – The James Madison women’s golf team saw five players finish inside the top-25, finishing as co-champions at the Elon Invitational on Tuesday afternoon.
JMU won its first title or share of a title since the River Landing Classic on March 5, 2024, and is the 25th win in the career of Head Coach Tommy Baker.
The Dukes were led by sophomore Bella Flores (Kingwood, Texas/Kingwood High School), who recorded a career-best runner-up finish on the 78-player leaderboard with a three-round score of 211 (-2). Flores opened the tournament with a career-best 68 (-3) and finished with steady rounds of 73 (+2) and 70 (-1) on the par-71, 6,026-yard Alamance Country Club.
The Dukes finished with a team score of four-over 856, carding rounds of 283-287-286 to tie for first in a field of 13 teams with host school Elon.
Junior Grace Petzold notched a seventh-place finish at 214 (+1), firing rounds of 71-73-70 for her second top-25 finish in as many tries in a JMU uniform. Freshman Emerson Elm came in as the No. 3 finisher for JMU in a tie for ninth at 215 (+2), managing scores of 70-72-73.
Right behind Elm was classmate Klára Sionková, who tied for 13th with a 54-hole score of 218 (+5). Georgia Southern transfer Avery Robinson (74-71-74) made her JMU debut, finishing one stroke behind Sionková in a tie for 16th at 219 (+6).
Senior Maria Atwood (Holly Springs, N.C./Holly Springs) competed as an individual and tied for 55th with a three-round score of 229 (+16).
Up Next
James Madison will head to Lubbock, Texas, for the Red Raider Invitational on Sept. 23-24.
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