Lakeland College

Lakeland women's golf tabbed seventh in preseason poll

Athletics - posted on 8/29/2008

The Lakeland College women's golf team has been picked to finish seventh in the Northern Athletics Conference this season by the league's coaches in a preseason poll released by the conference Friday.

The Muskies did not qualify for a team score at the 2007 NAC Championship at Mequon Country Club in Mequon. However, junior Nikki Commons (Bonduel) shot a two-round total of 192 to place fourth at the tournament and earn a spot on the All-NAC team. Earlier in the season, Commons notched a victory at the Marion Invite with a score of 94.

Aurora University, which is the conference's two-time defending champion, has been picked to win the league.

The Spartans finished 52 strokes ahead of the runner-up, Concordia University (Wis.), which has been selected second by the coaches.

Lakeland opens its season on Sept. 7 as it will head to Mee-Kwon Park Golf Course in Mequon for a two-day event hosted by Concordia (Wis.).

The complete 2008 NAC Preseason Coaches' Poll is below (first place votes in parenthesis):

1. Aurora University (7), 61
2. Concordia University Wisconsin (1), 57
3. Wisconsin Lutheran College, 37
4. Marian University, 36
5. Edgewood College, 34
6. MSOE, 23
7, Lakeland College, 22
8. Benedictine University, 18