Team Results (Final) | Individual Results (Final)
BRISTOL, Tenn. --- Nilubol Panno and the Tusculum University women's golf team led wire-to-wire to win the 2021 King University Invitational. The two-day, 36-hole tournament was held at the par-71, 5,852-yard Golf Club of Bristol.
The Pioneers, who led by one-shot heading into Tuesday's final round, extended their lead to a 14-shot victory with a two-day score of 321-306=627. TU's 306 was 12 shots better than Tuesday's second-lowest tally as all five Tusculum golfers posted scores in the 70s.
Panno finished with a two-round score of 151 to finish four strokes ahead of runner-up Sasha Gardiner of host King. Panno followed Monday's 76 with a final round 75 to claim her second career medal. With the victory, Panno becomes only the fifth multi-winner in program history joining Shannon Palenkas (2), Jillian Corum (5), Katie Tomassoni (4) and Jennifer Keim (2). Panno won her inaugural medal at last spring's UVA Wise Invitational.
Tusculum redshirt freshman Braelyn Pippin tied for seventh place with 81-77=158. The TU trio of Olivia Cunningham (82-79=161), Hannah Brown (86-75=161) and Sofie Lorentzen (82-79=161) all tied for 13th place.
Erskine finished second with 641, followed by Catawba (650), Emmanuel (654), North Greenville (654), Southern Wesleyan (657), Converse (659), King (669), Barton (701), Mars Hill (705) and Emory & Henry (708).
The victory was also the 30th team title in program history and the seventh women's tournament crown for head coach Ross Cash. TU has also won the year's first regular-season tournament six of the last seven seasons.
Tusculum returns to action next week (Oct. 4-5) for the Patsy Rendleman Invitational in Salisbury, North Carolina.
