EMCC’s Lucy Lunceford earns fourth top-10 finish of season at Calhoun CC-hosted golf tourney

DECATUR, Ala. – East Mississippi Community College freshman golfer Lucy Lunceford posted her fourth top-10 individual finish of the 2024-25 women's golf season by tying for 10^th-place honors during Tuesday's weather-shortened Calhoun Women's Spring Classic played at Burningtree Country Club.

Due to Monday's continued wet grounds following heavy overnight rain, the Calhoun Community College-hosted tournament was condensed into one 18-hole round played on Tuesday.

Lunceford, who tied with three other golfers with a 12-over-par 84 this week, has finished no lower than 21^st place through all nine regular-season tournaments, including seven top-15 outings. The Tuscaloosa, Ala. product from Northside High School began her collegiate career by claiming low medalist honors at the season-opening EMCC Invitational played at Tunica National. Currently ranked 25^th nationally among NJCAA Division II women's golfers, Lunceford then added a runner-up individual finish at the Jim Redgate Invitational played at Briarwood two tournaments later.

Fellow EMCC freshman golfers Lannee Bray (Raymond, MS/Central Hinds Academy) and Kaylee Dufrene (New Orleans, LA/Mount Carmel Academy), who also competed as individual participants, placed 30^th (97) and 32^nd (101), respectively, among the 49 women's golfers who competed this week in Decatur, Ala.

 Shelton State Community College earned a decisive 27-shot victory (309-336) over the University of Mobile to pace the 10-team tournament field that consisted of fellow MACCC foes Northwest Mississippi and Pearl River along with seven Alabama-based schools.

East Mississippi's trio of women's golfers will next compete, April 30-May 1, at the NJCAA Division II South District Championship to be played at Cider Ridge Golf Club in Oxford, Ala.