Led by three-time All-American, Kim Eaton, the Wellesley College golf team opened the 2010-11 season with a ninth-place finish at the Dartmouth Invitational.  The tournament was held on the par-72, 5,807-yard Hanover Country Club course and featured 22 competing schools.

Eaton tied for top honors in the two-day event, before narrowly falling in a playoff to medalist, Stephanie Hu of Boston College.  Eaton and Hu record matching rounds of 74 and 74 to finish +4 (148) in a field of 230 golfers.

As a team, the Blue finished in ninth place overall, and second amongst Division-III teams.  Wellesley recorded a team score of 663 (340-323), just five strokes behind Williams (658), the only other Division III team in the top ten.  Boston College won the overall title, with a two-day score of 611.

Individually, the Blue got a 42nd place finish from junior Alexis Kelleher, who shot rounds of 79 and 87.  Making her collegiate debut, first-year Alexandra Fuiks tied for 87th, shooting rounds of 90 and 87 (190).  Rounding out the individual performances, Michelle Cho shot a 190 with rounds of 97 and 93, while Cassandra Tavolarella rebounded from a disqualification in round one, with a spectacular 75 in round two.

The Blue are back in action next Saturday at the Mount Holyoke Invitational.