Though the year was different, the result was the same for women's golf at the Ivy League Championships. The Quakers finished fifth for the third-straight year this weekend at the Atlantic City Country Club in Northfield, N.J.
Harvard won the title for the second-straight year with a total score of 904, topping Yale by two strokes and Princeton by five. Penn finished 42 strokes from the lead at 946.
Individually, Susannah Aboff of Princeton - the Ivy League Women's Player of the Year - bested the field of 35 golfers for the second year in a row by shooting 219, three strokes over par. Freshman Tiffany Cheung led the Quakers, tying for eighth overall (+12, 228). Cheung recorded the lowest Round Two score of anyone in the field, delivering a round of 71 Saturday.
Behind Cheung, juniors Meredith Kotowski (77-84-77) and Lisette Vitter (81-78-79) tied each other for 18th at 238. Fellow junior Catherine Elliot (88-78-76-242) tied for 22nd and freshman Elizabeth Pettie (93-85-81-259) tied for 29th.
Though clearly overmatched against the top half of the league - the top three finishers have combined to win all but one of the 13 women's golf championships - Penn showed signs of improvement. The Quakers finished just one stroke behind fourth-place Columbia after trailing the fourth-place team by eight and 35 strokes the last two years, respectively. They also shaved shots off of their score each day of the 54-hole event - shooting 325 Friday, 311 Saturday and 310 yesterday.
The fifth-place result for the Red and Blue mirrored their performance at the ROAR-EE Invitational (hosted by Columbia) last weekend in Suffern, N.Y. The tournament at Spook Rock Golf Club featured six Ivy teams and was considered a preview of the Ivy Championships.
