JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – Freshman Casey Powell has not wasted any time in making a statement in college golf. After finishing in the top-10 at her first collegiate event two weeks ago, she followed that up with individual medalist honors for an encore.
 
Her 54-hole total of 213 was tied for the third-lowest score in the history of the Sea Best Jacksonville Classic, and her teammates performed admirably as well, helping Jacksonville University women's golf to a second-place finish with the lowest 54-hole team total in program history on Tuesday at Marsh Landing Country Club.
 
Entering the day tied atop the leaderboard, the Lexington, Ky. native showed no signs of nerves, playing even par golf for the day, to finish 3-under for the event, one of only two golfers' under-par in the field. She parred her first three, before bogeying the Par-4 4th. She settled in to par her next 12 holes, and was still tied for the lead entering the 16th hole. A bogey from her competitor, combined with a birdie, her lone red number of the day on 17, gave her a two-stroke advantage heading to 18, where she collected her 16th par of the day to win by two strokes.
 
Macarena Aguilera shook off a few early bogeys to make par or better on her last 13 holes of the day. She birdied her 11th hole of the round, and moved three more spots up the leaderboard on Tuesday to finish tied for fourth. Frantiska Lunackova gave the Dolphins three top-10 finishers, as she concluded the event with a pair of birdies in her final six holes to finish T9.
 
Jenna Fonda also had two birdies in her closing seven holes and ended the tournament tied for 18th, putting four Dolphins in the top-20.
 
Laura Pasalodous started the day as hot as anyone in the field, making three birdies in her first six holes, Mawgan Vater shot a team-best four birdies for her best round of the week, Debra Ann Burdeshaw hit seven pars and a birdie on the day, and Harley Hiltibrand made 11 pars and a birdie for her best round of the week as well.
 
JU shot the best on Par-4s for the week, three-strokes better than the next team in the field, and made 178 pars, the second most of any team, while leading the field with two eagles.
 
Powell and Lunackova were the best on Par-3s for the week on the team, shooting even par, while Aguilera and Powell led the field by shooting 4-under on Par-4s in the tournament. Lunackova and Fonda were the Dolphins' best on Par-5s, both shooting even par for the week.
 
The individual win was the first for the Dolphins since Maia Samuelsson captured co-medalist honors at the 2020 Kiawah Island Classic. It was also the first time JU had three competitors finish in the top-10 in a three-round tournament since the 2018 John Kirk Panther Intercollegiate.
 
The team is back in action next week at the Jupiter Women's Invitational on Monday and Tuesday.