Women's Golf Hosts Mary Fossum Invitational This Weekend
9/24/1999 12:00:00 AM | Women's Golf
Sept. 24, 1999
EAST LANSING, Mich. - Michigan State?s women?s golf team returns home this weekend and looks for the home-course advantage to help the team defend its 1998 title at the Mary Fossum Invitational. The 18-team tournament takes place Saturday and Sunday at Forest Akers West Course, with tee times beginning at 7:45 a.m. Saturday and a shotgun start at 9:30 a.m. Sunday.
HISTORY LESSON: Michigan State won the 1998 Mary Fossum Invitational behind a then-school record 293 team score in the second round of the tournament ... the Spartans finished at 895 for three rounds, 34 strokes ahead of runner-up Wisconsin ... junior Kasey Gant won last year?s tournament, the second time in as many tries that Gant won the Fossum individual title ... sophomore Emily Bastel made an impressive collegiate debut last year, finishing one stroke behind Gant ... fellow sophomore Stacy Snider joined Gant and Bastel in the top four ... the tournament is named after long-time MSU head coach Mary Fossum and was rededicated in 1997.
PARTICIPATING TEAMS: Michigan State, Cincinnati, Illinois, Illinois State, Indiana, James Madison, Kansas State, Kent, Michigan, Minnesota, Northern Illinois, Northwestern, Notre Dame, Ohio University, Penn State, Toledo, Western Michigan, Wisconsin
YEAR TEAM CHAMPION SCORE MEDALIST (SCHOOL) SCORE 1974 MICHIGAN STATE GREEN 699 JUNE OLDMAN (MSU) 86-82=168 1975 MICHIGAN STATE 510 JOAN GARETY (MSU) 82-43=125 1976 Furman 372-315=642 Betsy King (Furman) 79-72=151 1977 MICHIGAN STATE 333-331=664 SUE ERTL (MSU-Green) 80-84=164 1978 Alabama 313-313=626 Peggy Kirsch (Alabama) 73-79=152 1979 Ohio State 304-311-306=921 Rose Jones (Ohio State) 75-77-75=226 1980 Ohio State 308-308=616 Julie Zembrodt (Kentucky) 74-71=145 1981 MICHIGAN STATE GREEN 298-305-307=910 Tamie Green (Marshall) 75-72-71=218 1982 Penn State 303-306-300=909 SYD WELLS (MSU-Green) 72-75-74=221 1983 Ohio State 308-311-307=926 Nancy Harris (Minnesota) 71-76-76=223 1984 Indiana 305-297-299=901 Sarah DeKraay (Indiana) 76-74-74=224 1985 MICHIGAN STATE 314-300-307=921 LISA MARINO (MSU) 77-75-73=225 1988 Ohio State 304-303-296=903 Debbie Silverberg (Ohio State) 75-76-72=223 1989 Nebraska 317-307-309=933 Joanne Brooks (Nebraska) 75-75-72=222 1990 Penn State 317-308-322=947 Nicole Jeray (N. Illinois) 77-79-75=231 1991 Northern Illinois 306-299-297=902 Nicole Jeray (N. Illinois) 79-73-71=223 1992 Ohio State 317-315=632 Tami Dougan (Ohio State) 75-78=153 1993 Indiana 308-306=614 Erika Wicoff (Indiana) 75-70=145 1995 Wisconsin 315-309-326=950 Heather Hoffman (N?western) 77-73-74=224 1997 Indiana 307-302-300=909 KASEY GANT (MSU) 71-75-70=216 1998 MICHIGAN STATE 302-293-300=895 KASEY GANT (MSU) 75-74-75=224