COD Women's Golf wraps up 3rd place at OEC Championships

COD Women's Golf finished 3rd as a team and Lehapi Veikune Taungahihifo and Demi Preece were named All-Conference.

The Roadrunners sent six participants to its eleventh event, as Desert traveled to their tenth and final Orange Empire Conference (OEC) event of the season, this time the event was at the Menifee Lakes Country Club (Lakes Course) in Menifee.

Desert would finish with 369 points, which was 14 strokes ahead of fourth place finisher, Cuyamaca. Orange Coast would win the event with 315 points.

Sophomore Lehapi Veikune Taungahihifo (Rancho Mirage H.S.) who led the field after the first round, shooting a 75 on Monday, followed that performance up, leading the way for the Roadrunners, with an 81. After tallying the season scores, Taungahihifo would be named 1st team All-OEC for finishing 4th with a season average score of 79.

Freshman Demi Preece (Imperial H.S.) shot a strong 84 on Monday and followed that up with an 87 in Wednesday's Final Round, she would be named 2nd team All-OEC for finishing 7th with a season average score of 83.9.

Freshman Yvonne Pretorius (La Quinta H.S.) who shot her best round of 2021 on Monday, shooting an 86, shot a 93 in Wednesday's Final Round and freshman Daneah Jackson (Cathedral City H.S.) shot a 107, tying for her third best round of 2021 and shot a 113 on Wednesday.

Freshman Mayra Acosta (Thermal Desert Mirage) shot a 111 on Monday, then shot her second-best round of 2021 on Wednesday, dropping three strokes from Monday, shooting a 108 and freshman Natalie LeBeau (Desert Hot Springs H.S.) shot a 124, then dropped nine strokes from Monday to shoot a 115 on Wednesday.

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