Story by D.J. Pigg, Contributing writer Murray State’s women’s golf team won the Chris Banister Championship for the second year in a row on Tuesday. After breaking the team scoring record for the tournament in the first round with a 287, the Racers followed it up the next two days with rounds of 304-307 for Read More
Story by DJ Pigg, Contributing writer Murray State’s men’s golf team finished 14th overall this weekend in Eastern Kentucky’s Raising Cane’s Intercollegiate Tournament. Avery Edwards, sophomore from Paducah, Kentucky, followed his second place individual finish in the Murray State Invitational with another top-ten finish. Head Coach Eddie Hunt is very pleased with Edwards’ play thus Read More
Story by DJ Pigg, Contributing writer Men’s golf Murray State’s men’s golf team is off to a strong start to the 2017 Fall season after a win at its home tournament on Tuesday. The Racers opened their season at Miller Memorial Golf Course for the Murray State Invitational on Monday. They found the top of Read More
Story by Sarah Combs, Assistant Sports Editor The women’s golf team prepares for the upcoming season opener in the Drake Creek Invitational on Sept. 12-13 in Ledbetter, Kentucky. The first tournament will introduce four new freshmen and a sophomore transfer to the Racer roster. Head Coach Velvet Milkman expects immediate results from the newcomers. With Read More
Story by Collin Morris, Contributing writer The Murray State golf team kicked off their fall play on Friday, Aug. 21 with their qualifying tournament to determine their representatives for the upcoming invitational tournament. Head Coach Eddie Hunt begins the season with a noticeably youthful squad (headlining only three upperclassmen in a roster of ten), but Read More
Story by Sarah Combs, Assistant Sports Editor The Murray State women’s golf team wrapped up their season in the OVC setting. The Racers finished sixth overall and delivered the seventh OVC champion to come from the program. The team faces losing two seniors who have been in the Racer program all four years. Head Coach Velvet Milkman Read More
Story by Sarah Combs, Assistant Sports Editor and Mark McFarland, Sports Editor Men’s golf finished tied for fifth with Belmont in the OVC Tournament but came away with multiple All-OVC Honors. Murray State had not won an OVC title since 2010, but the team was feeling confident as it was coming off a second place finish the week before. Read More
Story by Sarah Combs, Assistant Sports Editor Moa Folke, sophomore from Tranas, Sweden, is an up and coming force in the OVC. Folke improved eight spots in just a year, finishing eighth her freshman year and recently snagging the OVC Champion title this 2015-16 season. Folke had the opportunity to sit down with The Murray State News a Read More