The Oregon women’s golf team’s latest tournament was played in a town with an odd name: Temecula, Calif.
It was just about the only thing different from the norm for the Ducks.
Oregon finished in the middle of the pack, a familiar result lately for the Ducks, at the Pioneer Electronics Bruin Classic Tuesday. They finished 11th in the 18-team field at the Menifee Lakes Country Club. The Ducks shot a total score of 926, three strokes behind 10th-place Long Beach State.
As usual, Jerilyn White paced the Ducks, shooting good first and last rounds to end up 16th overall. White shot a 2-over-par 74 in the first round and an even-par third round to finish with a 223 total.
Ducks Claire Hunter (231, 46th), Dawn Berry (232, 50th) and Kathy Cho (236, 68th) all ended in the middle of the pack of individual golfers. Megan Heckeroth (239, 79th) and Lacy Erickson (242, 85th) also competed for Oregon.
The Ducks’ hiccup at the Bruin Classic came during the second round, Tuesday’s morning round, when they shot a combined 316 as a team. Oregon had shot 303 to open the tournament Monday, and closed with a 307 in the afternoon round Tuesday.
Pepperdine beat out Oklahoma by six strokes to win the team crown at the tournament. The Waves won on the strength of a second-round 286, the low round of any squad at the Bruin Classic.
Southern California, California and UCLA rounded out the top five teams. Those three schools, along with Oregon and Washington State — who finished 16th — represented the Pacific-10 Conference at the tournament.
The teams around Oregon all finished close together. Eighth-place San Diego State finished seven strokes ahead of the Ducks, who also finished tied with the Wolfpack of Nevada for 11th. Thirteenth-place San Francisco finished only four strokes behind Oregon and Nevada.