BOWLING GREEN Ohio – The University of Pennsylvania women's golf team posted the best score in the field on Sunday, and in the process defeated 11 other teams to win the Dolores Black Falcon Invitational. In addition, sophomore Julie Shin took individual medalist honors in a field of 83 golfers.
 
The two-day, 36-hole event was hosted by Bowling Green State University and played on the par-72 course at the Stone Ridge Golf Club.
 
This is Penn's 17th tournament title in program history and the first this season. Last spring, of course, Penn won the Kingsmill Intercollegiate and then won its second Ivy League Championship team title. As for Shin, she becomes the ninth different player in program history to win a tournament and the first since Mary Shin (no relation) won the University of Hartford's Gillette Ridge Invitational in the spring of 2022.
 
Final Results (Golfstat.com) | Final Results (PDF)
 
Penn shot 292 as a team on Sunday and ended the weekend at 3-over-par 579. That is the second-best score in program history across 36 holes at a tournament, bettered only by Penn's 569 through two rounds at the 2019 Lady Blue Hen Invitational hosted by Delaware. It also was 10 strokes ahead of second-place Harvard, which carded 298 on Sunday and finished the two-day event at 589. Western Michigan (598) and Oakland (599) were the only other teams to break 600 for the 36-hole event.
 
Shin tied for the low individual round on Sunday, shooting a 2-under-par 70 which left her at 5-under-par 139 for the tournament. That is tied for the second-best score in program history through 36 holes at a tournament. She finished three strokes ahead of Harvard's Charissa Shang and Toledo's Macy Hanus, who tied for second at 2-under-par 142.
 
Classmate Bridget O'Keefe carded a 76 on Sunday and finished the weekend tied for sixth at 2-over-par 146, while junior Natalie Cao and freshman Maggie Ni both shot 74 for the second straight day and finished tied for ninth at 4-over-par 148. Freshman Madeleine Zang scored for Penn on Sunday with a final-round 74 and move up nine spots on the leaderboard, tying for 15th.
 
Up Next
Penn has one final tune-up before the Ivy League Championship, which runs from April 19-21. That takes place next Saturday and Sunday when the Quakers are in Annapolis for the 36-hole Navy Spring Invitational.