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GOLF: April 5 Golfers of the Week

IRVING, Texas – Senior Joey Savoie of Middle Tennessee earned Conference USA Men's Golfer of the Week after scoring better than nine top 100 players Mason Rudolph Championship. UTSA junior Nikki Long claimed the C-USA Women's Golfer of the Week honor after a top-five finish led the Roadrunners to a second-place finish at the Hawkeye El Tigre Invitational.

C-USA Men's Golfer of the Week – Joey Savoie, Middle Tennessee, Sr., Quebec, Canada
Savoie continued his stellar play this season by leading Middle Tennessee to a fifth-place finish in the highly competitive Mason Rudolph Championship. Savoie posted a 54-hole total of 207 which tied him for the ninth-best, three-round score in school history. Savoie’s final round 66 was a career-high and matched the eighth-best in school history. Savoie, who beat nine of the top 100 players also in the field, ranked second in par 3 scoring and notched 13 total birdies. This is Savoie’s first C-USA Player of the Week award in his career.

C-USA Women's Golfer of the Week – Nikki Long, UTSA, Jr., San Antonio, Texas
Long posted her third top-five finish of the year to lead UTSA to a runner-up showing at the Hawkeye El Tigre Invitational on April 3-4 in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico. Long carded a 1-over-par 217 on the 6,085-yard, par-72 El Tigre Golf Club layout in finishing just three shots behind individual medalist and No. 17-ranked Martina Edberg of Cal State Fullerton. The junior from San Antonio wrote down nine birdies and led all players in par-3 scoring at 2-under to help the Roadrunners to a 10-over 874 (297-294-283) for second place, just one shot behind Washington (873) and five ahead of No. 49 Wisconsin (879). Long leads UTSA with a 74.54 stroke average this season. This is her third C-USA Player of the Week award this year and fourth in her career.

2016-17 C-USA Men's Golfers of the Week
  • S14 Andreas Sorenson, UTEP
  • S14 Billy Tom Sargent, WKU
  • S14 Zander Lozano, UTSA
  • S21 Mario Carmona, Rice
  • S28 Marcus Byrd, Middle Tennessee
  • O5 Conor Purcell, Charlotte
  • O12 Billy Tom Sargent, WKU
  • O19 Frederik Dreier, UTEP
  • O26 Ilari Saulo, Middle Tennessee
  • N2 Zander Lozano, UTSA
  • F15 None
  • F22 Chip Thomas, Middle Tennessee
  • M1 Collin Clark, UTSA
  • M8 Ricky Hendler, Florida Atlantic
  • M15 Chip Thomas, Middle Tennessee
  • M22 R.J. Keur, UAB
  • M29 Derick Kelting, Southern Miss
  • A5 Joey Savoie, Middle Tennessee

2016-17 C-USA Women's Golfers of the Week
  • S14 Mary Joiner, WKU
  • S21 Hanley Long, Middle Tennessee
  • S28 Katie Story, WKU
  • O5 Camila Serrano, FIU
  • O12 Kelly Erasmus, Southern Miss
  • O19 Lily Downs, UTEP
  • O26 Camila Serrano, FIU
  • N2 Mary Joiner, WKU
  • F15 Julie Houston & Nikki Long, UTSA
  • F22 Juliana Sebastian, UAB
  • M1 Nikki Long, UTSA
  • M8 Camila Serrano, FIU
  • M15 Camila Serrano, FIU
  • M22 Georgina Blackman, WKU
  • M29 Valentina Haupt, Southern Miss
  • A5 Nikki Long, UTSA

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