BEAUMONT, Texas — Lamar University wraps up the regular season by hosting the two-day Cardinal Challenge on Monday and Tuesday, March 30–31, at Beaumont Country Club.
Day one of competition begins at 9 a.m., with the final round slated to start at 8:30 a.m.
LAST TIME OUT
The Cardinals last competed at the Riverbend Intercollegiate in Sugar Land on March 10, finishing 13th among 16 teams.
LEADING THE WAY
Brooke Frerichs leads the Cardinals with a 76.0 stroke average over 18 rounds while
Kamaya Moodliar ranks second on the team at 76.7 across 24 rounds.
Frerichs and Moodliar each posted the team's low round of the season with a 69 at the Wolverine Invitational during the fall in Saratoga Springs, Utah.
Moodliar recorded LU's best 54-hole score of the season, a 215 at the West Texas Classic in Abilene, and also turned in the team's top finish by tying for sixth.
She leads the squad with five rounds of par or better and owns a 75.6 stroke average during the spring season.
Karolina Krasova ranks third on the team with a 76.6 stroke average in 24 rounds.
Krasova and Frerichs have each notched two top 15 finishes, with Krasova tying for 11th at the Islanders Classic Invitational in Corpus Christi and Frerichs tying for 12th at the Terrier Intercollegiate during the fall in Spartanburg, S.C.
CARDINAL CHALLENGE
The Cardinal Challenge has been held 30 times since 1982.
LU has won the event 11 times since 1992, including three consecutive titles from 2022-2024.
Last spring, the Cardinals finished third among seven teams, with Krasova tying for sixth.
This year's Cardinal Challenge features five teams, marking the smallest field since 2024.
The field includes Blinn College, Midwestern State, Western Illinois, Lamar and Incarnate Word.
The tournament will be contested at Beaumont Country Club, a par-72 course measuring 6,094 yards.
Beaumont Country Club has served as the host site for the Cardinal Challenge since the 2007 season.
The tournament was previously contested at The Palms at Pleasure Island Golf Course in Port Arthur in 2005 and at Brentwood — Country Club of Texas in 2006.
STARTING LINEUP
Live results: https://scoreboard.clippd.com/tournaments/240144/scoring/participants
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