RALEIGH — NC State women’s golf concluded two days of competition at its Wolfpack Match Play event with a 3-2 win over 11th-ranked Florida State on Tuesday. After going 2-1 over its three rounds, NC State finished fifth in its home tournament and regular-season finale.
Wolfpack rookie Vania Simont was a perfect 3-0 in her matches over the week. She birdied her final hole against Florida State’s Kaylah Williams to earn the win on 18. Isabel Amezcua closed out a one-hole victory of her own over Katherine Cook, and Caitlin Whitehead scored the team victory with her 2&1 decision over Alice Hodge after playing up the majority of the match.
On Monday afternoon, the Wolfpack bounced back from a narrow first-round loss to beat Louisville. Simont (8&7), Amezcua (5&4) and Lauren Olivares Leon (3&2) all got the job done with holes left to play, and Whitehead held on for a tie in her match against the Cardinals.
NC State dropped its first match by a 3-2 score to 21st-ranked Duke on Monday morning before going on to win its final two matchups of the tournament. In that quarterfinal match with the Blue Devils, Simont won three holes in a row on her back nine to jump in front on the way to a 2&1 win over Erica Shepard. Olivares Leon also won her first match of the weekend by going up on Andie Smith in her second-to-last hole of the round.
Natalie Armbruester rounded out the Pack’s five-player rotation, and Inja Fric and Jaclyn Kenzel also each competed individually for the Wolfpack. The team’s event served as a final home tournament before it hosts an NCAA Regional in early May.
NC State turns its attention to the 2023 ACC Women’s Golf Championship which is set to take place April 13-16 at Sedgefield Country Club in Greensboro, N.C. There will be three rounds of stroke play next Thursday and Friday, after which the individual champion will be crowned. From there, four teams will advance to match play with semifinals on Saturday and the championship match on Sunday.
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