REXFORD, N.Y. – The Cortland women's golf team closed out its fall schedule by claiming the team title at the Northeast Women's Golf Conference (NWGC) Fall Invitational, held at the Mohawk River Country Club.
 
The tournament was the second of two, one-day fall tournaments held by the conference. The NWGC Championship, which determines the league's NCAA automatic berth, will be held next April.
 
Cortland finished with a 339, six strokes ahead of Suffolk and 37 better than third-place Utica (376). Suffolk won the NWGC Fall Classic on Friday, with Cortland finishing second, and Suffolk is the defending conference champion.
 
Mimi Rienzo (Stewartsville, NJ/Phillipsburg) and Gina Milazzo (Greenwood Lake/Warwick Valley) tied for second out of 45 golfers, each with an 81 on the par-70 course. Suffolk's Krisna Mahendran was the medalist with an 80. Nazareth's Kayla Ringler tied for second with Rienzo and Milazzo. Sophie Oristian (North Potomac, MD/Quince Orchard) tied for eighth place with an 88, Kara Dumas (Jefferson/Gilboa-Conesville) placed 10th with an 89 and Pia Aguilar (Santiago, Chile/Colegio Highlands) tied for 21st with a 100.
 
Rienzo finished with 10 pars and Milazzo carded a birdie and seven pars. Oristian birdied the par-5 11th hole, Dumas finished with six pars and Aguilar had a birdie on the par-4 14th.
 
NWGC FALL INVITATIONAL (October 12, 2024)
 
FINAL TEAM SCORES:
 
Place, School                                                    Score
1) Cortland                                                            339
2) Suffolk                                                              345
3) Utica                                                                 376
4) Nazareth                                                           384
5) Husson                                                              395
6) St. John Fisher                                                 397
7) Keene State                                                     399
8) Westfield State                                                 446
Incomplete - Canton, Cobleskill
 
INDIVIDUAL SCORES (TOP 5, PLUS OTHER CORTLAND)
(par 70)

Place, Name (School)                                        Score
1) Krisna Mahendran (Suffolk)                            80
T2) Gina Milazzo (Cortland)                                81
T2) Mimi Rienzo (Cortland)                                 81
T2) Kayla Ringler (Nazareth)                              81
5) Brooke Bugajewski (Suffolk)                           84
 
T8) Sophie Oristian (Cortland)                            88
10) Kara Dumas (Cortland)                                89
T21) Pia Aguilar (Cortland)                               100
 
(45 golfers competed)