SALEM, Ore. – Linfield climbed one spot on the team leaderboard to finish in a respectable third place after the second round of the NWC Women's Golf Championships, hosted by Willamette on Sunday at the Creekside Golf Club.
 
The Wildcats edged out Pacific Lutheran by two strokes to place third with a final two-round score of 748. They improved by 14 strokes on Day 2. Whitworth finished 79 strokes ahead of the 'Cats to place second at 669 while the favored George Fox Bruins ran away with the team title at 601.
 
Senior Raegan Barr held on to 15^th place after finishing in that spot on Saturday. She carded rounds of 88 on both days to finish at 176. Freshman Tori Schuller improved by six strokes in the second round, turning in an 89 to place 18^th at 184. Fellow freshman Hannah Hughes saw an 18-stroke improvement with a 90 on Sunday to tie for 22^nd place with Pacific's Madison Cabardo with a score of 198.
 
Sophomore Frances Remmick was 24^th at 199 while sophomore Caitlin Hillman rounded out the 'Cats in 25^th place at 200 to wrap up the 2022 season.
 
All five Bruins entered the final round occupying the top-five spots on the individual leaderboard, and those same Bruins stayed in the top five to show why they placed third at the NCAA Division III National Championships in 2021. Last year's individual national champion, Makensie Toole, won medalist honors by three strokes with a score of 2-over-par 146. Her second-round score of 71 was the low round of the tournament. Teammate Liana Brown was in second at 4-over-par 148 while Alison Takamiya placed third at 8-over-par 152.

With a fourth-place finish at the NWC Spring Classic and a fifth-place finish at the Fall Classic, Linfield tied for third place with Pacific Lutheran in the final NWC women's golf point standings with 21 points. They had just three points in 2020-21 to finish eighth. George Fox sits atop the standings with 32 points while Whitworth is second with 28 points.