2019 Review; Women's Golf Team Makes Strides in OEC

The MSJC women's golf team finished 2019 with a 4th place finish in the Orange Empire Conference Tournament.  (DeeAnn Bradley/MSJC)
The MSJC women's golf team finished 2019 with a 4th place finish in the Orange Empire Conference Tournament. (DeeAnn Bradley/MSJC)

The MSJC women's golf team showed marked improvement in 2019 as they finished 5th in the regular season Orange Empire Athletic Conference standings and fourth in the OEC Tournament.

The Eagles played this past season with five of the six players on their roster competing as freshmen.  A pair of those freshmen led the way most of the season for MSJC as Danielle White (Murrieta Mesa HS) and Makerita Hall (Vista Murrieta HS) ended the season with the 18th and 19th best scoring average in the OEC.  White concluded her first college campaign with a scoring average of 92.9, she carded a season best 86 at Arroyo Trabuco Golf Club.  Hall who also turned in her best score at Arroyo Trabuco with a 91 closed out her season with a scoring average of 95.

Fellow freshmen; Andrea Sanchez (Vista Murrieta HS), Sabrina Villalpando-Perez (San Jacinto HS), and Marilu Godinez (Perris HS), along with sophomore Kylien Gunnell (Temescal Canyon HS) rounded out the 2019 roster.  Sanchez shot a season low 88 at Arroyo Trabuco while Villalpando-Perez's best day of the year came at Soboba Country Club when she shot a 92.  Gunnell and Godinez both had their low rounds of the year at Via Verde Golf Club when they shot 93 and 111 respectively. Collectively the Eagles' best team score of the year also came at Arroyo Trabuco when they shot 363.

MSJC wrapped up the season with a 32-45 record and competed in the CCCAA Southern California Regional Tournament.

Eagle women's head coach Ron Bingham is still actively recruiting for the upcoming 2020 season.  If you are interested in playing women's golf please contact him via email at rbingham@msjc.edu