"The River City Rumble is never a pretty game and I give credit to UNF because they are a good team and they really brought it tonight," JU coach Mauricio Ruiz told the school’s athletic website. He put the shot in the back of the net for the only score of the game.įreshman Jabari Gray had three saves to post the shutout in the net for JU. In a chippy game in which six yellow cards were issued and 19 fouls called, Davis got his chance when he was fouled in the penalty box. 857 attack percentage. She also had six blocks. Walp had 12 kills, 14 attack attempts and zero errors to break the UNF Division I-era record for attack percentage in a three-set match, for an. UNF middle blocker Bre Walp set a school record for attack percentage in last week’s straight-sets victory over host North Alabama. Graduate seniors Macarena Aguilera and Frantiska Lunackova tied for seventh at Marsh Landing at 4-over, giving JU three players among the top-10 in a tournament for the first time since the 2018 John Kirk Panther Intercollegiate.Īguilera is a transfer from Miami and Lunackova from Coastal Carolina, where she was a member of the 2018 Sun Belt champions. Powell isn't all the Dolphins are bringing to the golf course this season. Her sister Murphy played volleyball at Emory University, her mother Mindy played tennis at Transylvania University and her aunt, Karen Powell, played basketball at Southern Illinois and won a national 3-point shooting championship in 1994. Powell also comes from an athletic family. She liked what JU and this area had to offer." She wanted to play Division I golf but wanted a place where the weather was good and the school had a homey feel to it. "I think it was just instinct on her part," Dougan said. Powell was the 2020 Miss Kentucky Golf runner-up, won the Kentucky PGA girls player of the year award, was first-team all-state in high school, was the Region 9 player of the year and won 18 junior and high school tournaments from 2017-2021.ĭougan had been recruiting Powell before her family's visit in early 2020 but is still pinching herself over signing her. "She doesn't get too flustered after a bad hole and she doesn't get too high after a few good holes in a row." "She's got a great mentality for the game," Dougan said. Powell missed only two greens in a final-round 72 at Marsh Landing and is averaging 72.1 this season. The last time a JU player opened the season with back-to-back top-10s was in 2017 when Amanda Detmer and Michelle Forsland tied for first in the Jacksonville Classic, followed by Forsland's tie for third and Detmer's tie for 10th in the Pinehurst Challenge.ĭougan said Powell has been doing "everything well," from driving it long and straight, to hitting greens and making putts. The last time a JU player was the medalist or co-medalist in a tournament was Maia Samuelsson, who was the co-medalist at the 2020 Kiawah Island Classic. 21, is off to its best start in women's golf since the 2010-11 season when the Dolphins finished fifth and second in their first two tournaments. JU, which finished fifth in the Hoover Invitational on Sept. It was Powell's second top-10 in as many college starts and it helped the Dolphins finish second in the team standings, four shots behind Tulane. More: NIL on the First Coast: UNF, JU student-athletes aren't getting rich but they're getting somethingįlash forward 21 months: Powell has hit the ground running as a freshman at JU and earlier this week won the individual title of the Sea Best Jacksonville Classic, shooting the program's 54-hole record score of 3-under-par 213 at Marsh Landing to beat Hanna Liu of Tulane by two shots. Johns River, a sales pitch by coach Kathryn Dougan and the warm January day convinced the player many believed to be the best junior girls golfer in Kentucky to take her next step as a JU Dolphin. The unofficial visit, which included a tour of JU's tree-lined campus by the St. Casey Powell and her family pulled off I-295 and drove to the Jacksonville University campus in January of 2020 on their way back to their home in Lexington, Ky., after she played in a junior tournament in South Florida.
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