Worley, ID - The Portland State women's golf team finished eighth in the Circling Raven Collegiate Invitational with a team score of 311-296-314=921. Big Sky Conference foe Northern Arizona won the tournament in a tiebreaker with Brigham Young as those teams finished at 905.

PSU started the day in a tie for third, but dropped five spots with its highest round of the tournament.

The Vikings were led by Tiffany Schoning, who entered the day with the individual lead. The junior from Bend, OR shot 78 on Tuesday to place sixth, four shots behind Lauren Hernandez of Nevada. Hernandez won the event with a two-over par 218. Schoning shot 75-69-78=222 with personal best scores for both a single round and a tournament.

Senior Alexia Brown tied for 30th with 76-77-78=231. Sophomore Britney Yada shot 82-72-81=235 and was 45th among 108 golfers.

Freshman Loren Forney had the best round by a Viking on Tuesday, shooting 77. Forney tied for 69th at 83-79-77=239.

Senior Kalyn Dodge withdrew and did not score in the final round.

TEAM NOTES: The Vikings placed second among six Big Sky Conference schools competing... Schoning's 222 total ties for ninth best in school history for a 54-hole tournament. Her second-round 69 ties for second-best in school history... PSU will host the Rose City Collegiate Invitational on Sept. 27-28 at Langdon Farms Golf Club in Aurora.

Circling Raven Collegiate Invitational
hosted by Gonzaga at Circling Raven Resort
Sept. 13-14, 2010
par 72, 6,106 yards
20 teams, 108 players

Team Scores
     ** 1   Northern Arizona           302  299  304    905       +41
         2   Brigham Young Univ.    303  297  305    905       +41
         3   Gonzaga University       308  301  301    910       +46
         4   Nevada, U. of                306  309  297    912       +48
         t5  San Francisco, U. of      310  300  309    919       +55
         t5  CSU-Northridge             308  305  306    919       +55
         7   Washington State U.     310  309  301    920       +56
         8   Portland State Univ.      311  296  314    921       +57
         9   Oregon State U.            301  308  314    923       +59
        10   Montana, Univ. of         317  299  311    927       +63
        11   Santa Clara Univ.         312  310  306    928       +64
        12   UC - Riverside              311  311  310    932       +68
        13   Boise State Univ.          314  307  312    933       +69
        14   Montana State Univ.     310  309  315    934       +70
        15   Portland, U. of              307  314  315    936       +72
        16   Eastern Washington     321  308  323    952       +88
        17   Seattle University         321  318  315    954       +90
        18   Southern Utah Univ.     312  323  325    960       +96
        19   British Columbia, U.     323  322  318    963       +99
        20   Weber State Univ.        328  315  325    968      +104
** won tiebreaker (fifth player score)

Player Scores
      1   Lauren Hernandez     Nevada          71   75   72    218   +2
      t2  Victoria Fallgren         Gonzaga        76   69   74    219   +3
      t2  Kaitlen Parsons           No Arizona    71   75   73    219   +3
      4   Jade Bollinger             BYU               75   73   72    220   +4
      5   Katrina Hegge             San Fran       72   73   76    221   +5
      6   Tiffany Schoning         PortlandST    75   69   78    222   +6
      7   Margo Dionisio           CSUN             73   77   73    223   +7
      8   Stephanie Kim            No Arizona     74   71   79    224   +8
      t9  Tinna Johannsdottir    San Fran        75   73   77    225   +9
      t9  Miki Ueoka                  SantaClara    77   74   74    225   +9
      t9  Seshia Lei Telles        Oregon St.      74   74   77    225   +9

Portland State Scores
       6      Tiffany Schoning       75   69   78    222
      T30   Alexia Brown             76   77   78    231
      T45   Britney Yada              82   72   81    235
      T69   Loren Forney             83   79   77    239
       WD   Kalyn Dodge             78   78   WD