Tschetter Records Ace, Bobcats Finish Strong in First Round of Big Sky Championship
4/14/2025 4:21:00 PM | Women's Golf
Montana State in second place through 18 holes at The Wigwam in Litchfield Park, Arizona
LITCHFIELD PARK, Ariz. -- A furious close to the morning catapulted Montana State golf up the leaderboard, putting the Cats in second place through 18 of 54 holes at the 2025 Big Sky Women's Golf Championship on Monday.
As a team, the Bobcats finished 5-under-par through the final three holes of the day with six birdies and one bogey, putting them at 3-over-par for the round with a 287 ahead of the final 36 holes of the tournament at The Wigwam.
Three of the four scoring Cats carded a birdie on the 18th hole.
Two-time defending champ Sacramento State leads the field at 2-under-par 282, with Montana State only five strokes behind.
Montana is in third at 11-over-par, with Northern Arizona in fourth at 13-over-par.
"We competed all 18 holes and the proof is in our finishing holes," head coach Brittany Basye said. "I am very proud of those last few holes."
One shot was the story of the day, as Becca Tschetter holed a 294-yard ace on the Par 4 14th.
The graduate student knocked it in with a driver from the tee box for her second hole-in-one in the last month, an incredible feat.
Tschetter, a native of Minot, North Dakota, was able to find the bottom of the cup for the albatross after hitting the front of the green with her shot and watching it roll 30 feet to the flag.
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— Montana State Golf (@MSUBobcatsGolf) April 14, 2025
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The shot follows up her hole-in-one at Royal Ka'anapali Golf Course in early March at the Dr. Donnis Thompson Invitational in Hawaii.
Yet, it was the veteran Scarlet Weidig who led the way for Montana State on the first day in Litchfield Park, carding a 2-under-par round of 69 on the Par-71 course.
Weidig, a three-time All-Big Sky selection, tallied five birdies on the back nine to just one bogey, and sits in second place on the individual leaderboard only one stroke behind Sacramento State's Darla May Dela Torre (-3).
Maddie Montoya, a junior from Boise, Idaho, saved her best round of the season for her first round at the conference championship, carding a 1-under-par 70 to sit tied for fourth through 18 holes.
Starting with back-to-back birdies on the tenth and 11th holes, Montoya carded a 3-under-par 32 on the back nine to help spearhead the Montana State charge after the turn.
Coming off her tournament win at the Bobcat Desert Classic last week and being named the Cats' first First Team All-Big Sky pick in over a decade, Lauren Greeny carded a 1-over-par 72 to lurk just behind the leaders in a tie for 11th.
Montana State will be in the final grouping of the day for Round 2 on Tuesday, competing alongside Sacramento State and Montana.
The Cats' first tee time in the grouping is set for 8:40 a.m. PT/9:40 a.m. MT.
"We will need to stick to a good mindset again tomorrow, playing to the spots we have talked about," Basye said. "They need to continue making confident swings and trusting their short games. We're going to show up tomorrow and we are going to keep playing and competing."
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