RIVERSIDE, Calif. – The University of Hawai'i women's golf team finished in third place at the Big West Conference Championship following Tuesday's third and final round at the Oak Quarry Golf Club.
The Rainbow Wahine fired a final round 292 for a three-day total of 893, six strokes behind team champion Cal Poly. No UH golfer shot worse than 76 led by senior
Izzy Leung's 2-under 70. The senior posted her third straight Top 10 finish at the Big West Championship with third place at 1-over 217.
Cal Poly (887) blew a double-digit stroke lead but managed to hold on for its first Big West title, edging out runner-up and host UC Riverside (888) by one stroke. UC Davis placed fourth (893) followed Cal State Fullerton (898), Long Beach State (899), UC Irvine (905), and CSUN (916).
CSUF's Martin Edberg took medalist honors at 6-under 210 and held off UCR's Jakeishya Le, who shot a final round 68 to finish at 5-under 211.
UH senior
Raquel Ek tied for 14
th at 9-over 225 after carding a 74. Sophomore
Kaci Masuda tied for 19
th with her best round of the championship (73) to finish at 227. Freshman
Megan Ratcliffe and senior
Daezsa Tomas shot 75 and 76, respectively, to tie for 22
nd at 229.
Leung, a two-time all-Big West second team honoree, was named to the first team while Ek earned her third honorable mention selection.
The Big West Championship marked the final tournament for UH head coach
Lori Castillo, who earlier this season announced her retirement. In nine seasons with the Rainbow Wahine, Castillo was the longest tenured coach in program history. She guided UH to a pair of runner-up finishes at the conference tournament – at the 2010 Western Athletic Conference Championship and at the 2015 Big West Championship.
Castillo, a second generation head coach following in her father Ron's footsteps, has coached two UH medalists – Leung, who captured the 2014 Oregon State Invitational and Eimi Koga, who won the 2016 Hobble Creek Fall Classic. The Rainbow Wahine also captured the Hobble Creek Classic team title, a first since for the program since 1996.
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