It is that time of year again, the Eastern women’s golf season is underway. The women are on the road for two days in Ledbetter, Kentucky at the Murray State Drake Creek Invitational.

The women are out on the golf course proving that they can improve from their struggles last season. Monday the ladies shot 36-holes at the Drake Creek Golf Course, they will shoot another 18 holes today to wrap-up the invite.

Dating back to last season, Junior Anne Bahr was the top Eastern finisher placing 44th after a second round total of 80 that gave her a two-round score of 164 in the Murray State Invitational. She continued that success with a total score of 82 the first round and 75 the second round totaling 157 to best last seasons results.

Senior Chloe Wong finished second on the team with a score of 77 and 85 for a two-round total 162, followed by senior Alexandra Pickens putting up an 84 and 93 to post a 177 score through the first two rounds. The rest of the team followed with sophomore Katlyn Hasprey with a total score 179 and senior Maddy Burgett with 181.

With some success in round one for the ladies, their round one score was 327, second round dropped off just a little bit falling to 345 to bring the team total 672 for the opening day of the invite.

With Murray State winning it all just a year ago, Eastern will look to prevent that from happening again.

The Murray State Drake Creek Invite marks the beginning of the season and final season wearing the panther blue uniform for senior Chloe Wong

“I still can’t believe I’m a senior,” Wong said. “It just seems like yesterday when I started college. This year is going to be very bittersweet. I am going to enjoy my last season and do the best I possibly can. I’m setting goals and I hope to achieve them”

Day one is in the books and Wong expects the team to have better results on day two.

“Had we played to our potential we could have ranked better,” Wong said. “After the two rounds today, we did not place extremely well compared to all other teams, but we expect to do better tomorrow”

As the struggles seem to continue for the Women as this season kicked off, team chemistry and unity will play a big factor this season to become a better unit then a year ago.

With another day of rounds tomorrow, the women will try for better results than they had on day one.

Vincent Lovergine can be reached at 581-281 or vplovergine@eiu.edu