Simpson Takes Medalist Honors as Tartans Win Saint Vincent Invitational

Simpson Takes Medalist Honors as Tartans Win Saint Vincent Invitational

(BOLIVAR, Pa.) - For the second straight day the Carnegie Mellon University women's golf team brought home a team title and had the top four finishers when the Tartans competed in the Saint Vincent College Invitational at Champion Lakes Golf Course in Bolivar, Pennsylvania. The Tartans carded their second-best 18-hole round of the season on Sunday at Champion Lakes when they finished with a team score of 310. The victory was the second of the season for the team ranked eighth in the nation.

Freshman Charlotte Simpson (Towson, Md. / Bryn Mawr School) earned the top finish of the day by shooting a four-over par 75. Following Simpson was senior Summer Kitahara (Greenwich, Conn. / Rye Country Day) with a 77, junior Carly Jordan (San Juan Capistrano, Calif. / St. Margaret's Episcopal School) with a 79, and sophomore Yedin Lui (Idaho Falls, Idaho / Idaho Falls) with an 80. Freshman Catherine Tianhong Yu (Dalian, China / Walnut) carded an 85 as the fifth player of the group for the Tartans.

Simpson's round was one of her career best and marked her second medalist honor of the year. The freshman leads the team with a 78.0 scoring average through 15 rounds.

Playing as individuals for the day were senior Isabelle Tseng (Plainsboro, N.J. / West Windsor-Plainsboro South), senior Ginger Glass (Hollidaysburg, Pa. / Hollidaysburg), and sophomore Sanchi Gupta (Cincinnati, Ohio / Ursuline Academy). Tseng finished with the fifth-best score of the invitational with an 84 while Glass carded a 97 and Gupta a 100.