Georgetown’s Popowitz, Seton Hall’s Go Take Weekly Golf Honors
NEW YORK – For the second week in a row, Georgetown sophomore Alexa Popowitz was named BIG EAST Female Golfer of the Week. She won the Hoya Invitational. For the second time this season, Seton Hall’s Lloyd Jefferson Go has been named BIG EAST Male Golfer of the Week. Go took medalist honors at the Princeton Invitational.
This is the last week for women’s golf honors. The BIG EAST Women’s Golf Championship will be held April 21-23 at the Callawassie Golf Club in Callawassie S.C. On April 30-May 2, the BIG EAST Men’s Golf Championship also will be held at Callawassie.
BIG EAST Female Golfer of the Week
Alexa Popowitz, Georgetown, So. – Popowitz takes conference honors for a second straight week after taking first place in the Hoya Invitational. She shot a three-over-par 219 for the 54-hole event that also had Hoya junior Christine Schmitt tie for third at 222. Popowitz, who earned her first career win, shot scores of 71, 73 and 75. Georgetown finished second in the team standings with a score of 909 (+45).
BIG EAST Male Golfer of the Week
Lloyd Jefferson Go, Seton Hall, Sr. – Go claimed the individual title at the Princeton Invitational with a nine-under-par 204 (69-65-70) five strokes better than the runner-up. The win was the third in Go’s career and his 24th top-10 finish. His 13 career sub-par tournaments and 40 sub-par rounds are school records.
BIG EAST Notes – Andy Butler of Villanova led the Wildcats to a third-place team finish at the 14-team Finegan Invitational played at the Whitemarsh Valley Country Club. Butler carded rounds 73 and 71 to finish even-par 144, which tied for second place. The junior won the tiebreaker to take home the second-place trophy. As a team, Villanova posted scores of 306-295-601 (+25)…The Butler Bulldogs showed well in the Big Four Classic with the women finishing first and the men taking second at the Crooked Stick Golf Club in Carmel, Ind. The women grabbed five of the top seven individual spots led by winner Lauren Tibbets, a sophomore who shot a five-over-par 77. Junior Kelsey McDougall was second at 78 and junior Abigail Gleixner placed third at 82. For the Butler men, freshman Michael Denner shot a two-over-par 74 and took second place. Classmate Patrick Allgeier tied for fifth with a 77.