SEVIERVILLE, Tenn. --- Tusculum's Jennifer Keim established a new 54-hole school record with her tournament score of 222 to finish in third place at the 2021 Bobby Nichols Intercollegiate.
The Pioneers finished fourth in the team competition with a three-day score of 923, which is the second lowest 54-hole team score in program history. TU's 302 on Tuesday was the second lowest score of the day, behind tournament winner Eastern Kentucky as the Colonels led wire-to-wire with 890 including Tuesday's 298.
Keim fired a final day 75 as she posted two bogeys, a double bogey and 15 pars, claiming her third consecutive top-10 finish this year and fifth top-5 performance in her two seasons with the TU program. Keim's 222 surpasses the previous 54-hole record of 224 posted by Emee Herbert at the 2012 NCAA Super Regional and Ciara Rattana's 224 at the 2018 Agnes McAmis Memorial.
For her efforts, Keim was named to her fifth All-Tournament Team in her 10 career events with the Tusculum program.
EKU's Ragga Kirstinsdottir led wire-to-wire as well to win the individual medal with 70-72-73=215, two shots ahead of runner-up Victoria Ladd of Western Carolina (71-72-74=217).
Findlay, the No. 6 ranked team in NCAA Division II, finished runner-up with a team total of 916. Western Carolina was third with 920, followed by Tusculum (923) and Northern Iowa (937). South Atlantic Conference member Carson-Newman, the No. 25 team in NCAA II, placed sixth with 938, followed by host Tennessee Tech (946), Radford (947), Austin Peay (949), Indiana State (969), Bellarmine (970), Northern Kentucky (980) and Tennessee Tech B (982).
Tusculum junior Olivia Cunningham tied for 15th with her three-round score of 73-81-77=231, which is a career-best for her and tied for the 10th lowest 54-hole score in school history. Hannah Brown claimed sole possession of 17th place with 81-76-75=232. She was seven-over par through 11 holes, but caught fire by shooting three-under par on her final five holes including a birdie on the 18th hole.
Freshman Nilubol Panno tied for 30th place with 239 including a 75 in Tuesday's final round where she shot one-under par on her inward nine holes. Tusculum junior Jacque Butler finished with 269 for the tournament to finish 64th.
The Pioneers will host the 23rd annual Agnes McAmis Memorial next week (Mar. 22-23) at Graysburg Hills Golf Club. TU has won this event on seven occasions.
