PHOENIX, Ariz.– No. 10 ranked Rocky Mountain College looks poised to run away with the conference championship after jumping to a 28 stroke lead in the second round.
Shooting 31-over-par 319 in the second round, the Battlin' Bears finished with a two-day total of 643. Lewis-Clark State sits in second with a total of 671.
Both
Eryn Ellis and Lewis-Clark's Marissa Louder ended the day shooting 76. With two rounds in the book, Ellis has shot nine-over-par 153 to maintain a single stroke lead over Louder. She was even-par for par-3 scoring and carded 12 pars and one birdie on the day.
Both
Morgan O'Neil and
Hayden Flohr improved on their first round performances to join Conner in a third place three-way tie. All three have shot 20-over-par 164 on the tournament so far. Conner led in par-5 scoring with an even-par.
Anna DeMars finished in sixth. The senior from Townsend, Mont., shot 82 for a two-day total of 165.
"We did a really good job handling the conditions today," said head women's golf coach
Aaron Pohle. "The wind picked up and made things really difficult, but I'm proud of how the team adjusted."
The Battlin' Bears will wrap up the Frontier Conference Championship tomorrow at Papago Golf Course in Phoenix, Ariz.