Sager Paces Pirates in Round Two of BIG EAST Championship

Saturday, April 24

Fort Myers, Fla. / The Club at Gateway

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Seton Hall University

Second Round

Sager Paces Pirates in Round Two of BIG EAST Championship

4/24/2021 3:33:00 PM | Women's Golf

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Seton Hall trails the team leader, Xavier, by 14 strokes entering Sunday's final round.

FORT MYERS, FLA. – Graduate student Maddie Sager (Phoenixville, Pa.) shot a 4-over-par, 76, on Saturday to pace the Seton Hall women's golf team in round two of the 2021 BIG EAST Championship at The Club at Gateway. As a team, the Pirates remain in third place.

Sager was just 1-over-par on the front nine, which fueled the top Pirate round on day two. Through 36 holes, she is tied for seventh among all individuals with a 7-over-par, 75-76-151. She trails the individual leader, Butler's Claire Edwards, by four strokes entering Sunday's final round.

As a team, Seton Hall lost two strokes to Creighton and 15 to Xavier during Saturday's second round. The Pirates shot a 21-over-par, 309, and remain in third place with 18 holes remaining in the Championship. For the tournament, The Hall is 34-over-par with a 301-309-610. Xavier is the new team leader at 20-over-par. Creighton is now in second at 26-over-par.

Freshman Ginevra Ricciardelli (Rome, Italy) had 13 pars in round two to register her second straight 5-over-par, 77. Through two rounds, she is tied for 12^th place overall with a 10-over-par, 77-77-154.

Graduate student Lizzie Win (Sylvania, Ohio) and junior Sarah Fouratt (Santa Maria, Calif.) each fired a 6-over-par, 78, in round two. Win is tied for ninth place through two rounds with an 8-over-par, 74-78-152, while Fouratt is 12-over-par with a consistent 78-78-156.

Rounding out the Pirates' lineup on Saturday was senior Mia Kness (Venetia, Pa.) who had three birdies in route to a 7-over-par, 79. She is currently tied for 12^th place through 36 holes with a 10-over-par, 75-79-154.

Although The Hall is still looking for its first individual with a sub-par round, all 10 individual rounds have been under 80.

Tournament Details:
2021 BIG EAST CHAMPIONSHIP
Host: BIG EAST Conference
Location: Fort Myers, Fla.
Course: The Club at Gateway
Course Vitals: Par-72, 6,072 yards
Dates: April 23-25, 2021

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CHAMPIONSHIP FORMAT:
It's a six-team, 54-hole, stroke play Championship. Teams will compete in pairings of three. The event is conducted over four days with each team's five members playing a practice round of 18 holes on day one and one 18-hole round on days two, three and four.

THE COURSE:
The 18-hole, meticulously maintained, Tom Fazio masterpiece at The Club at Gateway facility in Fort Myers, Florida which plays 7,047 yards from the longest tees with a par of 72 awaits your arrival. The course rating is 74.4 and carries a slope rating of 137.

The golf course opened for play in 1989 and was immediately added to Golf Digest's list of Top 100 Courses. The recognition Gateway garnered from Golf Digest's Top 100 list earned the course the privilege of hosting the 1990 and '91 Ben Hogan Tour's Gateway Open. The Club has also hosted numerous USGA qualifiers and PGA chapter and section events, including the 2008 Callaway Golf State Pro-Assistant event, which was previously hosted by the well-known TPC @ Sawgrass.

The Club at Gateway features six sets of tees, including senior tees for both gentlemen and ladies. Like many Florida courses, there is water on most holes; if that's not enough you'll also find nearly 100 sand traps. But fear not, you will also find generous fairways, dramatic stands of native cypress trees, cape cod-style bunkering, and putting surfaces that are often described as some of the finest (and quickest) Bermuda grass greens in the state. This all adds up to a well-rounded combination of playability, challenge, coupled with Fazio's signature aesthetic appeal. Tom Fazio himself rates our tenth hole as one of the top four greatest golf holes he has ever designed.

THE FIELD:
For the BIG EAST Championship, the field is limited to only the six women's golf teams of the conference. This includes (in order of Golfstat ranking): Xavier (97), St. John's (127), Seton Hall (133), Butler (198) and Creighton (196). Georgetown has no Golfstat ranking since this is the first and only tournament for the Hoyas this spring due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

TEE TIMES:
The field will begin play at 8:00 a.m. for all three rounds. Friday's first-round threesomes will be determined by team and player seedings, while Saturday's and Sunday's groupings are assembled from the previous day's leaderboard.

RESULTS:
Live scoring of the event will be available through Golfstat. Complete results of each day's events will also be available following competition at SHUpirates.com.

2021 BIG EAST CHAMPIONSHIP - Team Scores
Pos.	Player	R1	R2	R3	TOTAL	PAR
1	Xavier	300	296		596	+20
2	Creighton	295	307		602	+26
3	SETON HALL	301	309		610	+34
4	St. John's	313	311		624	+48
5	Butler	316	309		625	+49
6	Georgetown	321	323		644	+68

2021 BIG EAST CHAMPIONSHIP - Seton Hall Individual Scores
Pos.	Player	R1	R2	R3	TOTAL	PAR
T7	Maddie Sager	75	76		151	+7
T9	Lizzie Win	74	78		152	+8
T12	Ginevra Ricciardelli	77	77		154	+10
T12	Mia Kness	75	79		154	+10
T17	Sarah Fouratt	78	78		156	+12