Final Results (PDF)

The Bulldogs placed second in the 11-team Loyola Fall Invitational that concluded Tuesday afternoon in Illinois. The Bulldogs posted the best team score in the final round of the 54-hole event.
 
The Invitational was Butler's first action of the 2017-18 campaign.
 
Host Loyola won the event with a three-round score of 934. Butler entered Tuesday's final round in second place, eight strokes off the lead. But the Bulldogs made a run at the title behind a team score of 307, which matched Montana for the best round of the day. It also matched the best round of the tournament as Loyola posted a 307 in the first 18 holes of Monday's competition, which included two rounds.
 
Butler made up five shots on Loyola in the closing round, but the Ramblers still found a way to post a three-stroke win over the Bulldogs (937). Butler defeated third-place Montana (944) by seven strokes. IUPUI and Creighton were fourth and fifth, respectively, in the team standings.
 
Lauren Tibbets fired a two-over 74 Tuesday at the 6,112-yard Flossmoor Country Club (par 72) to climb into a tie for fourth. She began in the day in seventh. Tibbets' 74 was the second-best round of the day, trailing only IUPUI's Aneta Abrahamova, who won the event.
 
Tibbets finished at 231 (+15) after rounds of 80, 77, and 74. Kelsey McDougall finished in a tie for sixth, just one shot back of her teammate Tibbets. Her five-over 77 Tuesday added to Monday rounds of 76 and 79 put her at 232 (+16) for the tournament.
 
Betsy Werner was eighth at 234 (76-83-75; +18).  
 
Abigail Gleixner (82-78-81—241; +25) and Rachel Gathof (81-84-81—246; +30) rounded out the Butler scoring five.
 
Butler freshman Ally Ross was the top performing individual in the field, tying for 18^th with Gleixner at 241 after rounds of 80, 82, and Tuesday 79.  
 
Abrahamova of IUPUI won the event with a six-over score of 222. She was five shots better than Loyola's Elayna Bowser and Montana's Baylee Barckley.
 
The Bulldogs continue fall competition with the Butler Fall Invitational that begins Oct. 2.