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CSU Heads to Horizon League Championship

CSU Heads to Horizon League Championship

CLEVELAND, Ohio - The Cleveland State women's golf team will compete at the Horizon League Championship from Friday through Sunday at the Mission Inn Resort Las Colinas Course.

The field will tee off at 7:30 a.m. each day at the par-72, 5,817-yard course in Howey-in-the-Hills, Fla.

At last year's league championship, the Vikings opened with a 312 and shared the first round lead with Detroit. CSU would finish third at the league championship, seven shots behind runner-up Youngstown State. Detroit won the title.

The Vikings, who feature three seniors, one junior and a sophomore in the lineup, have enjoyed a solid spring season that has included two runner-up finishes.

The senior trio of Micaela Cronin, Shelly Ford and Madeline Kaminski will be playing in their final league championship this weekend.

Ford is enjoying her best season at CSU, ranking 12th in the league with an 80.84 scoring average. Ford, whose scoring average has dropped each year during her career, has posted two top-five finishes, including co-medalist honors at the Butler Bulldog Invitational when she also earned Horizon League Player of the Week honors.

Cronin ranks 22nd in the league in scoring (82.47), while Kaminski is tied for 31st with an 84.53 average.

Cronin's season includes a runner-up finish at the Chicago State Invitational when she set the school record for lowest 36 hole total of 146 (74-72). Her final round 72 was tied for the lowest round in school history.

Sophomore Allyson Hackman is eighth in the league with a 79.72 scoring average and is attempting to become just the third player in program history to average under 80.0 in a season. She would join Katie Broere (78.5 in 2008-09) and Ariel Sparrow (79.0 in 2012-13).

Hackman, who has four top-20 finishes this year, has a season-low round of 75. At last year's league championship, she led after and opening round 73 and finished tied for sixth place (73-82-78 - 233), earning a spot on the all-tournament team.

Hackman's 79.9 scoring average is tops in program history.

Junior Colleen Miller rounds out CSU's lineup and ranks 40th in the league with an 85.63 scoring average.

The Vikings have been out of action since placing 11th at the Dolores Black Falcon Invitational on April 12-13 when Cronin and Ford tied for 21st place.

The winner of the league championship will receive an automatic bid to the NCAA Division I Women's Golf Championship. The selections will be announced live on the Golf Channel on Monday (April 28) during Golf Central which will air at 6:00 p.m.

The NCAA regionals will be played from May 8-10 with the three sites being in Tallahassee, Fla., Stillwater, Okla., and Cle Elum, Wash.