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CNU Sophomore Erica Whitehouse Collects Third CAC Player of the Week Recognition


FREDERICKSBURG, Va.


-- For the third time this season and fiſth time in her career, Christopher Newport sophomore Erica Whitehouse has been named the Capital Athletic Conference Women’s Golfer of the Week. Te second-year player defended


Courtesy of CNU Athletic Department


her title at the Max and Susan Stith Invitational in Richmond, Va. last week, and helped lead the Captains to a dominant victory as a team. She fired a three-over 147 (71-76) in the 36-hole event, winning the tournament by ten strokes over teammate Katie Tome (+13). Whitehouse and the Captains won the team title by 53 strokes


while playing at Te Dominion Club in Richmond, in an event hosted by Randolph-Macon College. She scored a one-under 71 in the first round, marking her second round under par this season, and finished the event with a four-over 76 on day two. Wrapping up regular season play,


Whitehouse posted a stroke average of 75.67 heading into the Capital Athletic Conference Championship, which will be held in Williamsburg at Te Golden Horseshoe Green Course from April 18-20. She has finished in the top five in four of her six events played this year and continues to set the standard of success for CNU women’s golf in it’s second year.


Hokies Finish 11th at Augusta Haskins Award Invitational Te Virginia Tech men’s golf team


posted a three-round total of 5-over 869 and finished in 11thplace at the Augusta Haskins Award Invitational on Sunday aſternoon. Te two-day event was played this weekend at the par 72, 7,005-yard Forest Hills Golf Club in Augusta, Georgia. Tech was fourth aſter the first


round on Saturday with an 8-under 280. Te Hokies shot a 294 in the second round on Saturday and 295 in the final round on Sunday. Connor Burgess, a sophomore


from Lynchburg, Virginia, led the Hokies in Augusta, tying for 16thplace with a 3-under 213. Cameron Young of Wake Forest took medalist honors with a 19-under 197. Drew Brockwell, a freshman


from Chesterfield, Virginia tied for 42ndat 219 and Connor Johnson Jr., and Cameron Moore, both freshmen from Richmond, Virginia, tied for 53rdat 221. Slade Pickering, a


sophomore from North West, South Africa, tied for 56that 222. Johnson’s 72 was the Hokies’ low score of the final round. Wake Forest took the team title


with a 36-under 828, three strokes ahead of South Carolina and six strokes ahead of Texas. Arkansas was fourth at 845, Notre Dame was fiſth at 853, host Augusta was sixth at 855, Illinois was seventh at 858 and Mercer was eighth at 861. UCF was ninth at 862 and Houston was 10that 864, five strokes ahead of the Hokies. USC Aiken was 12that 871, Northern Illinois was 13that 875, Georgia State was 14that 897 and Air Force was 15th at 901. Te Hokies wrap up the regular


season next weekend, as they compete in the Stitch Intercollegiate April 12- 13. Te tournament will be played at MacGregor Downs Country Club in Cary, North Carolina.


Courtesy of Virginia Tech Athletics


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