Emily Howerton

The College of Wooster women's golf team recorded its second second-place finish at a 12-team event of the 2013-14 season on Saturday, as the Fighting Scots scored a solid 354 at the weather-shortened Mount Union Spring Invitational, held on Tannenhauf Golf Club in Alliance, Ohio. It was supposed to be a 36-hole tournament, but Sunday's round was cancelled due to unseasonably cold temperatures.

Wooster was just four strokes short of the team championship at the par-72, 5,900-yard course. Fellow northeast Ohio school Baldwin Wallace University held off the Scots with a 350, while Wooster came in ahead of host University of Mount Union (360), Otterbein University (364), and eight others, primarily from across the Buckeye State.

Emily Howerton, a first-year, carded a team-best 41 on the back nine and an 85 overall to help lift the Scots to their runner-up finish. Wooster's No. 1, sophomore Sharmeen Chinoy, matched the 85, which included a 41 on the front nine, and the duo tied for fifth-place out of the 65 competitors.

Also coming in under 90 was first-year Hannah Buzolits, as her back-nine 42 resulted in an 89 and tie for 13th-place individually, while rounding out the Scots' scoring was junior Alyssa Gilbert with a 95. Gilbert tied for 29th.

After a weekend off from competition, Wooster will play host to a spring tourney on April 5-6 at the Wooster Country Club.