Mar. 28, 2007
BEMIDJI, Minn. -- After nearly six months on the
shelf, the Bemidji State University women's and men's golf
teams will retrieve their clubs from storage and wipe off
the dust this weekend as they travel to South Dakota to open
the spring portion of their 2006-07 schedules. Both teams
are slated to make a pair of stops this weekend with the Augustana
Invitational in Sioux Falls, S.D. on Friday and the University
of South Dakota Invitational in Vermillion, S.D. on tap for
Sunday.
Although both teams will travel to Sioux Falls, S.D. Thursday
for a practice round and the two-day (Mar. 30-31) Augustana
Invitational, the men's team will be a part of a 17-team field
at Willow Run Golf Course while the women will be across town
at Prairie Green Golf Course. Women's play will begin at noon
Friday and 10:30 a.m. Saturday. The men tee off at 11 a.m.
each day.
April 1-2, the BSU squads hit The Bluffs Golf Course for
the USD Invitational. The women hit the course at just after
10 a.m. with the men beginning play at 1:20 p.m.
The BSU men tee it up this spring with hopes of qualifying
for their third consecutive invite to the NCAA Division II
Central/Great Lakes Super Regional. The team is coming off
a fall campaign in which it finished second at the Northern
Sun Intercollegiate Conference Championships and had Neil
Rude (Jr., White Bear Lake, Minn.) and Michael
Abrahamson (So., Duluth, Minn.) earn all-conference
accolades.
On the women's side, the Beavers will field a complete five-player
team this weekend for the first time since the spring of 2003.
BSU entered a four-player team consisting of Jenna
Schurman (So., Sauk Centre, Minn.), Kelsey
Kaufman (Fr., Eau Claire, Wis.), Jenny Wenlund
(Jr., Elk River, Minn.) and Kayla Braaten
(Fr., Mayville, N.D.) to cap the 2006 fall slate with a sixth
place finish at the NSIC Championships but with its roster
expanded to six this spring, will have the opportunity put
a full squad on the course.
Three-time NSIC Coach of the Year Don Niskanen
is in his 11th year at the helm of the BSU men's program while
Karen Siira is in her second year as the
women's head coach.
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