The No. 17 LSU women’s golf team captured its first team victory of the spring campaign on Tuesday in the Allstate Sugar Bowl Intercollegiate Classic Championship at the English Turn Golf and Country Club in New Orleans.
The Lady Tigers shot a 10-over par team score of 874, granting them sole possession of first place as tournament champions.
LSU took an early lead in the competition at 4-under par on the first day and lost its position throughout the tournament. 
“The tournament was great since we won,” said LSU coach Karen Bahnsen. “I was really proud of the girls. We played very well on the first day, had a lot of birdies. It was fantastic.”
LSU’s first-round score of 4-under par 284 put it seven strokes in front of Tulane and completed its round at 3-over par. LSU tallied a tournament-high 19 birdies on the day.
The Lady Tigers faced tough weather conditions on the second day but shot for their highest-round score of the tournament.
“Obviously, the weather was tough and made it difficult,” Bahnsen said. “I don’t know if the weather was the whole reason — it didn’t help — but we just didn’t putt well on the second day. You could tell from the whole field
because the scores were high.”
LSU had to regather itself in preparation for the final round of the tournament. The team shot a 286 on Tuesday, good for its first victory of the spring season.
“Then today, the team just went out there, had a really good mindset and just worried about golf and not the things around them,” Bahnsen said. “It was a total team effort. I was really proud of them for stepping up, especially for the way they did today.”
Senior Madelene Sagstrom, who is No. 29 in Golfstat rankings, led LSU by locking down the individual leaderboard on the first day when she shot for a tournament-low 68. Her tournament score was connected by a total of nine birdies, one eagle and seven bogeys. She shared the tournament individual title with sophomore Caroline Nistrup, each completing the tournament with a score of 4-under par, 212.
Nistrup added a score of 1-under par on the first and final rounds. She ended with a score of 2-under par 70 on day two, helped at the latter half of the course where she landed four birdies and one bogey for a score of
3-under par 33 on the back nine.
“Co-champions for two of our players is really special,” Bahnsen said. “They were given the opportunity to have a playoff, but they both said ‘No.’ They did not want to play against each other. They wanted to share their individual championship with a teammate. I am really proud of them. They are just playing such great golf. They have been working really hard, and their success just reinforces that we are working on the right things.”
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