MEADVILLE, PENNSYLVANIA --  The two-time defending Ohio Athletic Conference champion and 25th-ranked Baldwin Wallace University women's golf team stands in second place after the first day of the two-day and two-round Allegheny College Fall Invitational Tournament at the Meadville Country Club.  The final day of the event is tomorrow, Monday, Sept. 24. This is the second fall event for the Yellow Jackets during their non-traditional five-tournament fall season.
 
The Yellow Jackets totaled 340 strokes today on the par-73 and 5,385-yard Meadville C.C. layout. BW trails first day leader and host Allegheny by four strokes. In collegiate golf, a team consists of five student-athletes with the top four scores counting toward the team total.

The Yellow Jacket women were led by junior two-time All-OAC standout and No.1 player Emilee Woolf (Ravenna) with a 77. She was followed by senior 2-time All-OAC and Academic All-OAC player Rebecca Kapusta (Independence) with an 85, senior CAPITAL ONE Academic All-American Brooke Hamilton (Cleveland/ St. Joseph Academy) was next with an 86, junior 2-time All-OAC player Miranda Cunningham (Dayton/Dayton Christian) with a 92 and junior Sarah Allred (Akron/ Green).

In addition and playing as an individual was junior 2-time All-OAC player Rebecca Jones (Hilliard/ Darby) who fired an 88 and freshman Laura Vidmar (Willoughby/South) who carded a 90. Freshmen Sabre Adkins (Dublin/Coffman) and senior Sarah Terrill (Cuyahoga Falls/Cuyahoga Valley Christian Academy) did not play this weekend.

The Yellow Jackets will be back in action on Saturday and Sunday, Sept. 29-30 when they travel to the Grearer Columbus area to play at the Capital-Otterbein Crusader-Cardinal Fall Invitational at the New Albany Country Club in New Albany.

BW entered the season ranked 25th in the NGCA (National Golf Coaches Association) Division III rankings (http://www.bwyellowjackets.com/sports/wgolf/2012-13/releases/preseason_tournament).

The past two years, the BW women's golf program has been one of the best in NCAA Division III. The Yellow Jackets have won nine tournament titles, including back-to-back OAC crowns, have advanced to two straight NCAA Division III national tournaments and have a 140-44-1 record.  All five Yellow Jacket starters have each earned All-OAC accolades the past two years.
 
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