HILTON HEAD ISLAND, S.C. --- The Tusculum University women's golf team posted a final round score of 322 to finish with 640 and finish fifth at the 2021 Battle at Hilton Head. The two-day, 36-hole tournament is being held on the par-72, 5,934-yard Robert Trent Jones Course at the Palmetto Dunes Oceanfront Resort.

Tusculum tallies its second top tier finish in as many tournaments following last week's fourth-place showing at the Spring Kickoff Intercollegiate.

Carson-Newman led wire-to-wire as the Lady Eagles carded a two-day score 629 and win by one shot over runner-up Lenoir-Rhyne (310). Central Missouri finished third with 634, while Lee University, the sixth-ranked team in NCAA Division II, finished fourth with 638 including a Tuesday-best 308, 22 shots better than Monday's opening 330.

Tusculum was fifth with 640, followed by Belmont Abbey (641), Lincoln Memorial (652), Columbus State (659), Queens (663), Lander (666), USC Beaufort (683), Catawba (684), Barton (690) and Southern Wesleyan (691).

Tusculum's Jennifer Keim accounted for her sixth top-10 finish in her Pioneer career as she tied for eighth place with 76-80=156. Freshman teammate Nilubol Panno also tied for eighth with 156 including her team-best 77 in Tuesday's final round.

Hannah Brown tied for 16^th place with 79-80=169, Olivia Cunningham finished 45^th with 84-85=169 and Madison DeWees shot 87-86=173, good enough for 55^th.

Tusculum returns to action Mar. 14-16 as they compete at the Bobby Nichols Intercollegiate at the Sevierville Golf Club in Sevierville, Tennessee.

Team Results

Tusculum Individual Scores