Final Results: Team | Individual

HICKORY, N.C. -- Cal State East Bay senior Linda Brown captured individual medalist honors at the 2014 Lenoir-Rhyne Rock Barn Collegiate Invitational. She shot a final-round 72 (+1) on Tuesday on the par-71 Jackson course at Rock Barn Golf Club to run away with the tournament championship by eight strokes.

The Pioneers took third place as a team, carding a second-round score of 324 (+36) to finish at 655 (+87) for the week. East Bay was 25 strokes behind the team champions, Queens University of Charleston (+62), and 14 strokes behind second-place Lander University (+73).  

On the same course where she placed 23rd last spring at the NCAA Division II National Championships, Brown was a cut above the rest of the field this week. She fired the two lowest rounds of the entire tournament and finished at 147 (+5), which is her lowest 36-hole score so far this season. She entered Tuesday's round with a two-stroke lead and proceeded to go four strokes lower than anyone on the course to clinch her first individual crown of 2014-15.

Junior Melissa Hosman also notched her best finish of the season. She improved by two strokes from the first round to the second, carding a 79 (+8) to finish tied for seventh at 160 (+18). 

A pair of Pioneer newcomers both had their highest finishes of the fall as well. Taylor Wyss shot 86 (+15) on Tuesday and finished 15th with a total of 174 (+32). Taelor Shweiki turned in a second-round 88 (+17), putting her in 16th place in the overall field of 34 golfers.

Junior Michelle Wong played an impressive round to close out the tournament, carving six strokes off her first-round score with an 87 (+16). Wong's two-round total of 180 (+36) gave her a top-20 finish for East Bay. 

The Pioneers have completed their fall tournament schedule, and they now have three months off from competition before their spring season resumes in February.