2011 MIAC Championship Meet Preview

MOORHEAD, Minn. (9/29/11)-- It will be a completely new Concordia team that participates in the 2011 MIAC Championship Meet. The Cobbers will take five freshmen to the conference meet and will have high hopes of posting a top 5 finish for the first time since the 2007 season.

Concordia has had three different top 5 finishes on the year and is coming off their lowest team round of the season. The Cobbers shot a 315 in the opening round of the Southwest Minnesota State Invite which is the lowest single round total since the end of the 2000-01 season.

The Cobbers have four golfers with average season scores in the 80's. All four of the top CC golfers are within two shots of each other and all four have taken turns leading Concordia at the five different invites this year.

Kristi Opatz (Eagan, Minn./Eastview HS leads the team with an 83.0 average. She has one sub-80 round on the year and has one top 5 finish on the year. Holly Karkela (Perham, Minn.) fired the lowest round of the year for CC and is second on the team with an 84.5 average. She carded a 76 in the first round at the SMSU Invite which is the lowest round shot by a CC golfer since the 2008 season. Molly Zavedil (Crofton, Neb.) and Amy Mireault (Fosston, Minn.) round out the top 4. Zavedil has an 84.8 average and has placed in the top 20 on three occasions while Mireault is fourth with an 85.0 average and led the team at both the Concordia Invite and the DIII Classic.

A fifth freshmen will lock down the NO.5 spot for Concordia at the conference meet. Leading the group to contend for that fifth spot is Katie Nelson (Bismarck, N.D./Century HS) who has a 90.9 stroke average in her eight rounds of the season.

Concordia enters the conference meet ranked fourth in the MIAC in scoring average. The Cobbers are averaging 336.6 strokes as a team in the eight rounds of competition. If they can continue their steady season improvement, then a top 5 conference finish should be just around the corner.                    


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