WALLA WALLA, Wash. -- Junior Elaine Whaley, one of five players to break 80, helped Whitman College finish Saturday's opening round of the Northwest Conference Spring Classic in second place on a wet and windy Wildhorse Golf Course in Mission, Ore.
NWC Women's
Spring Classic
 Results
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| Elaine Whaley |
Whaley, a junior, shot a 6-over par 78 and was tied for fourth place with Linfield's Hannah Christianson.
Two more Whitman players, sophomore Catelyn Webber and first-year Missionary Sarah Debs, shot rounds of 80 and were part of a five-way tie for eighth place.
Junior Tate Head carded an 82 to complete Whitman's second-place 320 team score. The Missionaries trail George Fox by eight strokes but have an eight-stroke lead over third-place Whitworth.
Sophomore Katie Zajicek also played for Whitman but struggled to an 87 in conditions that saw a dozen players top 90.
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| Catelyn Webber |
Other team scores start with Linfield in fourth place at 331. Rounding out the field are Willamette 338, Pacific Lutheran 356, Pacific 385, and Puget Sound 419.
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| Sarah Debs |
Kelsey Morrison shot a 1-under 71 to spark George Fox to its 312 first-place team score. Willamette's Nicole Smith is in second place, five strokes off the pace after shooting a 76.
Whitworth's Nicole Lomax shot 77 for Saturday's third-best score.
Results from the Spring Classic count for 25 percent of the season-long scoring used to determine the final NWC standings and crown a conference champion.
Sunday's second and final round is set to get started with the first tee times at 11:30 a.m.
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CONTACT: Dave Holden
Sports Information Director
Whitman College, Walla Walla, Wash.
509 527-5902; holden@whitman.edu
