PEORIA, Ill. -- The Bradley women's golf team wraps up its fall schedule in Florida for the third consecutive year, taking part in the 36th annual Pat Bradley Invitational in Sarasota, Fla., Sunday, Monday and Tuesday.
The Braves are playing in the Pat Bradley Invitational for the third consecutive year and fifth time overall after taking third of 14 teams in last year's event. This season, Bradley is one of 17 teams in the field at par-72 Lakewood Ranch Golf and Country Club's Cypress Links course.
The teams will play single rounds all three days with 8:30 a.m. (CDT) starts Sunday and Monday and an 8 a.m. (CDT) tee time on Tuesday. The tournament field includes Missouri Valley Conference rival Drake along with three teams ranked in the top 100 according to Golfweek.com's ratings in 67th-ranked Florida International, #87 Maryland and #88 Missouri. Joining Florida schools Bethune-Cookman, Daytona State, Florida Atlantic, Florida Gulf Coast and Jacksonville in the tournament are Cincinnati, Delaware, Memphis, North Texas, Southern Miss, Texas A&M-Corpus Christi and Western Illinois.
Sophomore Danielle Lemek (Doniphan, Neb./Doniphan-Trumbull) tied for third at last year's Pat Bradley Invitational to help lead the Braves to a third-place team finish. Lemek fired a 220 (72-74-74) to pace Bradley last year in Sarasota, Fla., and finished three shots behind the individual medalist. With a tie for eighth at the Payne Stewart Memorial earlier this week, Lemek has posted a top-10 finish in each of the last four tournaments.
Sophomore Allison Walsh (Mt. Prospect, Ill./Mt. Prospect) is coming off a season-best round of 74 in the final round of the Payne Stewart Memorial and owns a 77.0 stroke average over the last two tournaments after she tied for 26th in Springfield, Mo., earlier in the week.
Fellow sophomore Jenna Roadley (Winnipeg, Manitoba/Sturgeon Heights) has shot three of her last four rounds in the 70's and will be joined in the Bradley lineup by freshman Paige Jordan (St. Charles, Ill./St. Charles East) and junior Katarina Mangieri (Galesburg, Ill./Galesburg).
