The Winona State University women’s golf team finished the spring portion of the Northern Sun Intercollegiate Conference championships with a third-place finish.
The Warriors, who entered the two-day spring portion of the tournament trailing second-place Concordia-St. Paul by four strokes and first-place Upper Iowa by 40, finished with a 1,341 — 21 strokes behind CSP and 90 strokes behind UIU.
WSU junior Megan Placko, who finished the two-day fall portion six strokes behind the leader, shot an 81 on Friday at the par 72 Fox Run Golf Club to finish in a tie for third with a four-day total of 315.
WSU junior Tara Christensen shot a 335 over the four-day tournament and finished 10th.
Placko was named to the all-NSIC first team, and Christensen was a second-team selection.
Placko shot a 168 (84-84) Saturday and Sunday and tied for third place — nine strokes out of first — to lead the Warriors to a third-place finish (697) at the Maverick Invitational.
Brady Strangstalien shot a two-over-par 73 and finished in a tie for eighth place to lead the WSU men’s golf team to a third-place tie Monday in the Golden Bear Invitational in Lake City, Minn.
John Anderson, Keegan Drugan and Ross Wilhelm each shot a 75 and tied for 15th place for WSU, which finished with a team total of 298 — 10 strokes off the winning score.
Kevin Loeffler tied for seventh place with a five-over-par 76 — two strokes behind the tournament winner — on Tuesday to lead the Warriors to a third-place finish in the 10-team Concordia Spring Invitational.
Strangstalien and Drugan each shot rounds of 78 to tie for 11th for WSU, which shot a 312 and finished three strokes behind first-place Minnesota State.