By OAKLEE FIELDER
Both golf teams finished 5th in the Great American Conference Championships both located in the Tulsa area over the week.
The Lady Rangers finished 5th out of 11 teams. Gracie Doke finished off the Championships with a 2nd place finish. Doke sat between two Arkansas Tech golfers.
Doke finished with a score of +7, just six strokes behind first place. Tess Linden was the second-best Lady Ranger, she finished 13th with a score of +17. Amanda Lane finished 23rd with a score of +22. Heather Hunkele had a score of +37, putting her in 43rd. Kelsey Hoy-Pollard had a score of +45 which set her in 49th.
The men finished 5th out of 10 teams. Chris Xiao was the top Ranger, putting him 8th.
An-chieh Tsai was just behind Xiao with a score of +9, putting him tied for 16th. Pierce Geminden finished the Ranger train as he had a score of +10. Geminden’s score put him tied for 18th. Mathieu Zerwin finished 27th with a score of +12. Zac Farmer had a score of +15, putting the Australian in 31st.
This marks the end of the golf season for 2025-26. Both teams were always competitors worth keeping an eye on in their tournaments, just coming up short in some.