Both of Eastern’s golf teams wrapped up their tournaments on Tuesday with the women taking eighth place out of 10 teams at the SIUE Fall Invitational and the men taking fourth place out of five teams at the Chicago State Fall Invitational.

For the women’s team, Tiffany Wolf finished with the best score on the team and tied for 39th with the rest of the field shooting a score of 173 over two days.

Second on the team and 43rd in the field was freshman Erica Von Itter trailing Wolf by one stroke.

Seniors Emily Fitzgerald and Elyse Banovic tied for third best score on the team and 44th with the rest of the field shooting two-day scores of 175.

Freshman Lexi Hammerton took fifth place on the team and 49th in the field with a score of 179.

Elyse Banovic was unhappy with the team’s overall performance.

“We didn’t do very well,” she said. “We can do a lot better, and we know it. Everyone made some bad decisions or made silly mistakes. We need to eliminate this as a team.”

She hopes that this tournament will show the team how important it is to stay focused.

“This shows that we need to keep our focus, no matter what,” Banovic said.

With Eastern finishing eighth shooting +119, Valparaiso, Lipscomb and SIU Edwardsville took first, second and third, respectively.

The women’s team hits the course again Oct. 6-8 for the Butler Fall Invitational at Highland Country Club in Indianapolis.

For the men’s team, leading the team with a score of 150 was Austin Sproles. Sproles finished tied for ninth in the field.

Behind Sproles and finishing 12th in the field was Brady Welsh shooting a 151.

Five strokes behind Welsh and 17th in the field was freshman Ryan Hughes with a score of 156.

Oscar Borda was fourth on the team and tied for 27th with the field shooting a 162.

Taking fifth place on the team was freshman Daniel Hughes, shooting 166 leaving him at 32nd with the field.

Sproles thinks the team can play better and will need to work on some areas in order to compete in future tournaments. Avoiding big scores seems to be a major area the team needs to work on.

“As a team, we didn’t play that great,” he said. “I think we can definitely improve. We can definitely take some things from this tournament and work on our weaknesses to improve. We need to keep the big numbers off the card.”

With Eastern taking fourth shooting a 619, Green Bay took home first place honors shooting a team score of 592.

The men will get back on the course Sept. 27-29 when they travel up to Lemont, Ill. for the DePaul Fall Invitational at Ruffled Feathers Golf Course.

Dan Hildebrandt can be reached at 581-2812 or djhildebrandt@eiu.edu.