Golf Prepares for the NCAA Championship
For the sixth straight year Louisville women’s golf will be
playing in an NCAA Regional. The Cards
were invited to the East Lansing Regional, with Michigan State being the host
site. They will compete in the three-day
event from May 6-8. This is Courtney Trimble's final season as their coach and hope they can send her out with a bunch of birdies and great shots.
Louisville comes in as the 11-seed of the 18-team pool. The top six teams will advance to compete in
the 24-team NCAA Championship. The top
three individual finishers that are not on one of the six qualifying teams will
also earn a bid to the NCAA Championship.
The Cards placed first in one tournament earlier this year,
claiming the title at the Alexa Sterling Intercollegiate. They finished runner-up at the Moon Golf
Invitational and placed third twice this year.
The entire East Lansing Regional is:
1-Stanford
2-Arizona
3- Kent State
4- UCLA
5- Michigan State
6- Campbell
7- Illinois
8- Baylor
9- North Carolina
10- Georgia
11- Louisville
12- Augusta
13- LSU
14- Indiana
15- Long Beach State
16- Xavier
17- Harvard
18- IUPUI
Duke, USC, and Texas are the other three 1-seeds. They will play at Auburn, Cle Elum
(Washington), and Norman (Oklahoma), respectively.
Softball Hosts Senior Weekend
We will get to witness in person the thrill and excitement of
Louisville softball for one final weekend.
The Cards are set to square off against North Carolina in their usual
Friday-Saturday-Sunday slot.
Friday’s 6:00 game is Service Appreciation Night. I expect Caitlin Ferguson’s father will be in
attendance to throw out there first pitch.
Saturday’s 1:00 game will be Senior Day and the five seniors
in Sidney Melton, Megan Hensley, Blaire Bass, Madison Cousineau, and Darianne
Hale will be recognized. Sunday’s noon
game will be Bark in the Park as fans will crowd the outfield berm with dogs of
all shapes and sizes.
Louisville boasts a 32-15 record with an 11-7 conference
mark. They are winners of six straight
games and eight of their last nine.
Recent highlights include a victory against Kentucky and a series
victory against Florida State.
Celene Funke’s 10 triples on the season is an NCAA-high and
tied a Louisville program-best. Sidney Melton’s 25
successful steals is two shy of tying for second in program history in a single
season. Her 58 career steals is third best
in UofL history and three shy of moving into second place. Funke has 23 successful steals. Her 43 career steals is sixth best in program
history.
At the plate, Megan Hensley's four career grand slams is tied for a program best. Her 34 home runs stand fourth in UofL history and she needs two more to move into a tie for third. She is fourth in career RBIs with 165 and needs one more to move up into a tie for third.
The Tar Heels are nearly identical to the Cards, holding a
15-6 record in the ACC and are 31-15 overall.
They are 7-8 against ranked teams and do have wins over Florida State,
Virginia Tech, Georgia, and Michigan.
UNC bats .295 on the year and has posted 232 runs.
The pitching staff is stingy.
They combine for a 3.86 ERA and have allowed 274 hits. Opponents have been limited to 150 runs on
the year, an average of 3.125 runs per game.
You can catch most of the Cardinal Couple crew on Floyd Street this week as well as the "A-team" on the Cardinal Couple Radio Hour together at 11 a.m. Saturday on WCHQ 100.9 FM or live on Facebook Live.
Happy Friday and Go Cards!
Jared
Good luck to softball over the weekend, hope it stays dry for them. I never was much into regular golf, although I was told that my miniature golfing skills were quite exemplary and I could have been one of the greats in the sport if I could have successfully gotten past the windmill and through the clown's mouth. Timing, my friends, timing.
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