Cobbers Finish Off Fall At MIAC Meet

COON RAPIDS, Minn. (10/04/21)---Concordia shots its best team score of the MIAC Championship Meet in the final round and had the most number of golfers finish in the 80s as they placed 10th at the conference meet held at Bunker Hills.

The MIAC Meet was shortened to 45 holes after a rain storm hit the Coon Rapids area on Saturday.

Concordia opened the tournament with a team total of 175 for nine holes on Saturday. The followed that with a 360 on Sunday and then finished off the meet with a 347 on Monday.

Freshman Joss Leach led the Cobber contingent at the conference meet. She carded a final total of 213 which put her in a tie for 31st place. Leach was one of the three CC players to shoot in the 80s on Monday. She finished off her first MIAC meet by posting an 84.

The highlight for the entire meet for the Cobbers came in Leach's opening round on Saturday when she fired a 39. Leach holed out her approach shot on the par 4, third hole to record an eagle. It was one of only five eagles by any player in the tournament.

Junior Abbey Frauenholtz was the most consistent member of Concordia's Top 3 at the tournament. She started with a 40, then had rounds of 88 and 89 to finish at 217 for the meet. She has now carded rounds in the 80s in seven of the nine rounds she has played in the conference meet.

Sophomore Lillie Kirchner shot the lowest single-round score by a Cobber at the MIAC Meet since the 2019 conference tournament when she fired an 82 on Monday. She opened with a 39 on the front side and then came home in 43 with a birdie on the 13th hole.

Kirchner finished two shots behind Frauenholtz with a 219.

Talia Stumpf and Ellie Johnson were the other members of the Cobber conference tournament team. Sumpf finished at 233 (47-94-92) and Johnson had a 3-day total of 244 (50-100-94).