Hoosiers travel to North Carolina for tournament

The IU women's golf team spent spring break in Florida, competing every day in the hospitable southern weather. They returned to Bloomington only to find frigid temperatures, a steady flow of rain and not much practice time. The opportunity to play at the Lady Seahawk Invitational in Wallace, N.C. today and tomorrow has the team excited to take the course. \n"It's pretty frustrating to be in 80 degree weather and come back to Bloomington and weather not conducive to practicing," senior captain Tiffany Fisher said. "But, hopefully we'll go into this tournament with a lot more experience and play under our belt from our spring break trip." \nThe team played six rounds in Port Saint Lucie, Fla. and had the chance to practice every day.\n"I improved a lot over spring break in Florida," sophomore Karen Dennison said. "I shot low numbers, so I hope to keep that going."\nHead coach Sam Carmichael will fill out his lineup with Fisher, Dennison, junior Cara Stuckey and sophomores Ambry Bishop and Mary Lidester. \nThis is IU's first year taking part in the Lady Seahawk Invitational. The UNC-Wilmington-hosted\ntournament is held at the par-72, 5,957-yard River Landing Golf Club. Carmichael said the team can expect a modern course with a number of bunkers and tight driving.\n"That's good, that's the type of course we want to play," Carmichael said. "I think it will lend itself\nto helping us later on for the Big Ten Championship in Champaign, which will be a similar type gold course."\nJoining the Hoosiers in the 17-team field are Augusta State, Campbell, Charleston Southern, Coastal\nCarolina, College of Charleston, Elon, Florida State, Georgia State, James Madison, Louisville, Maryland, Michigan, NC State, Penn State, UNC Greensboro, UNC-Wilmington and William and Mary.\nThe team will play 36 holes today and the final 18 tomorrow. It is the Hoosier's first competition sincetaking sixth place at the "Mo"morial in Houston, TX March 4th-5th and their third tournament of the spring season. \n"In some instances, I think we've played well so far," Carmichael said. "But I don't think we've gotten the consistency from the players, and I don't think we've gotten scores that the players are certainly capable of. I'm hoping at the end of this tournament, no matter where we finish, we can see some better scoring from all five players. And that's what we need to be able to compete."\nThe team has shown significant flashes of strong play at times this spring. In their first tournament, the Hoosiers set their team season-low round with a 294 tally. But, Fisher said it's time for the team to come together and be consistent. \n"We could sit here and say over and over again just how much potential this team has," Fisher said.\n"Really the only way that we're going to have success is if we go out and work hard for it. And everybody on this team understands that"