THIS WEEK: The Cal State Fullerton women's golf team will begin the spring portion of the 2014-15 season when they head to The Gold Rush presented by California Ford Dealers' and hosted by Long Beach State beginning on Monday.
THE COURSE: The event will be held at the 6,097-yard Par-72 Old Ranch Country Club in Seal Beach, Calif. The teams are scheduled to play 54 holes beginning Monday with a shotgun start at 8:30 a.m. They will play two rounds on Monday and conclude the event with the final 18 holes on Tuesday.
THE FIELD: Along with the Titans and the host 49ers, 11 teams will be participating in the two-day event including Boston College, BYU, Colorado State, Hawai'i, Fresno State, Portland State, UC Irvine and UC Riverside.
IN THE POLLS: The Gold Rush will include six teams ranked in the top-100 in the NCAA Head-to-Head rankings issued by GolfStat.com on Nov. 18, the final poll of the fall season. The Titans go into the competition ranked No. 88 with fellow Big-West participant UC Riverside leading the pack at No. 60. The rest of the field shapes out with Fresno State (No. 73), Long Beach State (No. 75), BYU (No. 82), and Colorado State (No. 95).
WATCH IT LIVE: Well… sort of. Live scoring will be available for all three rounds of The Gold Rush courtesy of GolfStat.com. Complete results following each day's play and final results will be posted online at FullertonTitans.com.
RECAPPING THE FALL: The first half of the 2014-15 season had many highlights for the Titans with the biggest being senior Tisha Alyn Abrea recording her first career individual title after posting a 1-under 215 at the Rose City Collegiate held at Langdon Farms Golf Club in Aurora, Ore. Abrea was the only golfer to break par in the competition and finished the tournament with 10 birdies, second behind only teammate Martina Edberg's 11.
The Titans would use Abrea and Edberg's efforts to win the Rose City Collegiate as the team shot a collective 890, three strokes ahead of runner-up San Francisco.
Overall, the Titans had three top-five finishes as a team in four tournaments. In the four tournaments, the Titans finished with a 76.43 scoring average in 64 total rounds of play. Edberg led the team with a 73.58 scoring average followed by Abrea at 74.08 and then Makayla Mier with a 76.58 mark. The Titans best single round score came at the New Mexico State Invitational when the team carded a collective 288 in the second round, the second lowest score in the program's history. Edberg and Abrea each tied for the lowest individual single-round score with each recording a 69 at the New Mexico State Invitational.
FREQUENT FLYERS: Cal State Fullerton had tournaments in four different states during the fall portion of the 2014-15.
