TROPHY CLUB, Texas -- Senior Danielle Lemek (Doniphan, Neb./Doniphan-Trumbull) matched her season-best with a par-70 to earn her 35th consecutive top-20 finish and the Bradley women's golf team climbed into 10th in the final team standings at the Oral Roberts/Stephen F. Austin Spring Break Invitational Tuesday.
Lemek matched the lowest round of the spring by a Brave with her 70 in the final round at the par-70 Trophy Club Country Club Tuesday to move into a tie for 15th in the final individual standings at 223. Bradley's top finisher for the second straight tournament, Lemek was the top performer for the Braves for the seventh time in eight outings with her 13-over par 223 as she missed a top-10 finish by two strokes.
Fellow senior Jenna Roadley (Winnipeg, Manitoba/Sturgeon Heights) and sophomore Grace Henderson (Peachtree Corners, Ga./Blessed Trinity) were the only Bradley individuals to shoot all three rounds of the Oral Roberts/Stephen F. Austin Invitational in the 70's. Both Roadley and Henderson shot a 77 on the final day with Roadley tying for 36th in the field at 229 and Henderson three shots back at 232 in a tie for 49th as she extended her career-best streak of consecutive sub-80 rounds to eight.
Sophomore Ally Scaccia (Arlington Heights, Ill./Prospect) and freshman Chloe Horton (Coral Gables, Fla./Ransom Everglades) both carded rounds of 76 on Tuesday. Scaccia was one shot behind Henderson in a tie for 52nd (233), while Horton completed Bradley's team scoring in a tie for 76th (238).
Bradley entered Tuesday's final round tied for 13th, but the team's 299 tied for the fourth lowest round of the day as the Braves climbed to 10th in the final team standings of the 20-team field. Houston Baptist held on to take the team title with a three-round total of 891, with Arkansas-Little Rock (2nd - 892), Oral Roberts (3rd - 893) and Georgetown (4th - 894) all within three strokes.
Missouri Valley Conference foe Southern Illinois took fifth with a total of 897 to edge sixth-place Bowling Green (901) and seventh-place Wichita State (907). The Shockers were seven shots better than Missouri State and Arkansas State, which tied for eighth in the field at 914. Bradley was one shot back in 10th at 915 to round out the top half of the field. The Braves finished with a four-shot advantage on Texas-Rio Grande Valley, North Dakota State and Northern Iowa, which were all four shots back at 919 in a tie for 11th.
Fairliegh Dickinson and Creighton tied for 14th (923), with Indiana State (16th - 929), Stephen F. Austin (17th - 932), Illinois State (18th - 944), SIU Edwardsville (19th - 947) and Louisiana-Monroe (20th - 960) completing the field.
The Braves will stay in the Dallas, Texas, area taking part in the Cardinal Challenge Wednesday in Fort Worth, Texas, to wrap up the team's spring break trip to the Lone Star State.
