Princeton Advances to Match Madness Finals

Saturday, April 6

Branchburg, N.J. (Fox Hollow)

All Day

Princeton University

Match Madness

Princeton University women's golf action, Princeton, NJ, September 23, 2018.

Alison Chang won both of her matches Saturday.

Photo by: Beverly Schaefer

April 06, 2019 | Women's Golf

With wins over Dartmouth and Harvard, the Princeton women's golf team has made the finals of the Match Madness event the team is co-hosting with Columbia at Fox Hollow in Branchburg, N.J.

Princeton got wins from Alison Chang, Sophie Siminoff and Emma Zhao and a half-point from Maya Walton to beat Dartmouth 3.5-2.5. Chang, Walton and Zhao had wins with Siminoff halving her match to beat Harvard 3.5-2.5 and make Sunday's 8:30 a.m. final against Delaware. The Blue Hens halved matches against both Wagner and Penn 3-3 before advancing in each on the tiebreaker of number of holes won.

Princeton's results are below. Complete results and an updated bracket are available here.

Princeton 3.5, Dartmouth 2.5
Alison Chang (Princeton) def. Julianna Strauch (Dartmouth), 1up
Maya Walton (Princeton) vs. Maddie Nelson (Dartmouth), halved
Sophie Siminoff (Princeton) def. Kristen Soh (Dartmouth), 5&3
Emma Zhao (Princeton) def. Kaitlyn Lees (Dartmouth), 1up
Catharine Roddy (Dartmouth) def. Annie Kong (Princeton), 3&1
Moon Cheong (Dartmouth) def. Anabelle Chang (Princeton), 1up

Individual
Tiana Lau (Princeton) def. Amanda Brown (Princeton), 6&5

Princeton 3.5, Harvard 2.5
Alison Chang (Princeton) def. Chloe Royston (Harvard), 2up
Maya Walton (Princeton) def. Belinda Hu (Harvard), 4&2
Sophie Siminoff (Princeton) vs. Michelle Xie (Harvard), halved
Emma Zhao (Princeton) def. Anina Ku (Harvard), 2up
Anna Zhou (Harvard) def. Annie Kong (Princeton), 2up
Elizabeth Wang (Harvard) def. Anabelle Chang (Princeton), 3&2

Individual
Jessica Luo (Harvard) def. Amanda Brown (Princeton), 5&4
Tiana Lau (Princeton) def. Bethany Burns (Dartmouth), 4&2