TAZEWELL, Tenn. --- The Tusculum University women's golf team moved up one spot in the standings and finished seventh at the 2021 South Atlantic Conference Championship. The two-day, 54-hole tournament was held at Woodlake Golf Club and hosted by Lincoln Memorial University.

Tusculum graduate student Jennifer Keim led the Pioneers with her final round 76 (+4) and finished with 234 to tie for 14^th place. She finishes her TU career with a 75.93 stroke average, which is a new program record, surpassing the previous mark of 76.81 carded by former SAC Player of the Year Emee Herbert (2011-2013). Keim also ended the 2021 abbreviated season with a 75.93 stroke average, which is the third-lowest in school history.

Conference newcomer Limestone captured the SAC title as the sixth-ranked Saints posted a final-day 295 to shoot 901 and finish 24 strokes ahead of co-runner-ups Anderson and Wingate. With the victory, Limestone earns the league's automatic berth to next month's NCAA Division II Tournament.

Wingate's Hailey McLaughlin claimed the individual medal finishing with a tournament total 217 including a two-under par 70 on Tuesday. She won by a single shot over Limestone's Ebbe Hellman who shot 69 in the final round to post a 54-hole total 218.

Carson-Newman finished fourth in the team standings with 934, while Lincoln Memorial was fifth with 938. Lenoir-Rhyne finished sixth with 945, followed by Tusculum (961), Queens (965), Newberry (1000), Catawba (1004), Coker (1063), Mars Hill (1089) and UVA Wise (1143).

TU senior Hannah Brown finished 26^th with 80-80-81=241. Freshman Nilubol Panno (81-84-78) and junior Olivia Cunningham (77-87-79) tied for 32^nd place with 243, while junior Jacque Butler shot 81-89-88=258 and finished 51^st.

Panno ended her inaugural season with a 77.40 stroke average which is the ninth lowest in school history and the second-lowest by a Tusculum rookie (Emee Herbert, 76.71 in 2011-12).

Cunningham's career stroke average moves to 78.76 in her 45 competitive rounds which is now fifth-best in the Tusculum record book.  

Team Results

Tusculum Individual Scores