OKLAHOMA CITY (March 19, 2021) – For the second straight week, Oklahoma Christian golfer
Alexandria Bennett was named Friday as the Lone Star Conference's women's player of the week.
The LSC honored Bennett, a sophomore from Plano, Texas, for winning her first collegiate title, the Midwestern State Invitational, which was played Monday and Tuesday at Wichita Falls Country Club in Wichita Falls, Texas.
Bennett led the Eagles to their first team tournament title in two years, beating a pair of ranked LSC teams, No. 19 St. Mary's (Texas) and No. 21 West Texas A&M.
After shooting a 75 and 73 during her Monday rounds, she closed with a 1-under-par 71 on Tuesday that lifted her to a three-shot win in the 63-woman field. Her three-round score of 219 (3-over) matched the fifth-best 54-hole score in program history and her 71 matched the second-best round in the history of Midwestern State's tournament, which first was played in 2010.
She became the fifth player in OC history to win an individual tournament title.
Last week, she earned the LSC honor after a sixth-place finish in the Diffie Ford-Lincoln Invitational at Kickingbird Golf Course in Edmond. Bennett is the first OC golfer to win conference player-of-the-week awards in consecutive weeks since Kate Goodwin did so when OC competed in the Heartland Conference during the 2018-19 season.