RESULTS | Bearcat Classic complete results
 
Greenwood, S.C.----The No. 2 Wingate University women's golf team and freshman Amely Bochaton won Lander's Lady Bearcat Classic team and individual honors Tuesday at the Greenwood Country Club. The team shot a score of 13-over-par to win by six strokes over host Lander, while Bochaton shot a seven-under-par 209 to race away from the field.
 
The No. 1 golfer in NCAA Division II, Bochaton was the only student-athlete to break par for the tournament. She collected a seven-stroke margin of victory over West Florida's Millie Thompson and Lander's Kajsa Lindqvist, who both finished at even-par 216.
 
This week's victories make it two identical hauls in a row for the Bulldogs, who won their recent home event at the Jerry Surratt Memorial Intercollegiate. Bochaton collected individual medalist honors in her first home appearance. She has five individual titles in 10 intercollegiate starts with three victories in five tries this spring. 
 
Wingate Round 3 quick hits
 
- Wingate shot 10-over-par 298 Tuesday to finish six shots ahead of host Lander
- The victories make it four-of-five team wins and five-of-five individual wins this spring
- Bochaton birdied her first two holes Tuesday on the way to her 70
- Her scorecard included three birdies, one bogey and 14 pars to close out the tourney
- Bochaton's seven-stroke victory was identical to her Surratt Memorial margin
- Senior Noelia Adkins fired her low round of the tournament with a two-over-par 74
- Adkins completed three rounds at 226, tying for 17th place
- Freshman Olivia Meinecke and fifth-year senior Jess Brown both shot 77s
- Meinecke finished seventh at 221, while Brown tied for 10th at 224
- Junior Lauren Sutcliffe shot a 78 Tuesday to tie for 20th place at 227
- Individuals Thalia Perez-Vieco and Isabella Adkins shot 77 and 79, respectively
- Five-of-seven Bulldogs were in the top 20, while three-of-seven were in the top 10
- Sixteen teams and 87 student-athletes competed in the Lander-hosted event
 
On the horizon for No. 2 Wingate
 
Head coach JD Lamm's team now has two weeks to prepare for the first event of the postseason, the South Atlantic Conference championships slated for April 6-8. The 54-hole event takes place with one round per day over The Preserve at Verdae in Greenville, South Carolina. Wingate finished in a tie for third at last year's championships. Current No. 1 Anderson won the '24 title. Fans should expect a close battle between the two best teams in the country at this spring's SAC event.
 
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(Editor's note: Wingate University graduate student Sean Addie contributed this article. The '23 Davis & Elkins graduate is a second-year MBA student at Wingate.)