GRANVILLE, Ohio -- The Allegheny College women's golf team opened the fall portion of the 2025-26 season at Denison University's Lynn Schweitzer Invitational at the Denison Golf Club on Saturday and Sunday.

In a strong field of 13 teams, the Gators finished in 11th place with a two-day total 738 (+158). Allegheny finished five strokes ahead of Muskingum University (743, +163) and 12 strokes ahead of the College of Wooster (750, +170). At the top of the leaderboard, the team from Randolph-Macon College held a comfortable 26-stroke advantage over the runners up from Denison and won with a cumulative 599 (+19).

Individually, Kessler Potter (Kents Store, Va./Fluvanna County) paced the Blue and Gold by tying for 24th place with a 36-hole score of 162 (+17). Potter's best round was on Saturday, when she carded a 79 (+6) with birdies on the par-5 12th and 15th holes. Josephine Corey (Lakewood, N.Y./Southwestern Central), who also birdied the 15th on Saturday, was the team's second-best finisher in a tie for 41st place. Corey fired a 171 (+26), highlighted by an 82 (+10) on Sunday with another birdie on the par-3 fourth. 

Team Results
1. Randolph-Macon - 306-293-599 (+19)
2. Denison - 321-304-625 (+45)
3. DePauw - 311-320-631 (+51)
4. Christopher Newport - 315-318-633 (+53)
5. Methodist - 324-314-638 (+58)
6. Lynchburg - 320-323-643 (+63)
7. York (Pa.) - 329-329-658 (+78)
8. Otterbein - 335-339-674 (+94)
9. Wittenberg - 336-340-676 (+96)
10. Kenyon - 351-344-695 (+115)
11. Allegheny - 376-362-738 (+158)
12. Muskingum - 373-370-743 (+163)
13. Wooster - 375-375-750 (+170)

Allegheny Results
T-24. Kessler Potter - 79-83-162 (+17)
T-41. Josephine Corey - 89-82-171 (+26)
T-58. Ada Coté - 96-87-183 (+38)
71. Payton Essman - 112-110-222 (+77)

Up Next
Allegheny will travel to Altoona, Pennsylvania, for the Sinking Valley Collegiate Classic at the Sinking Valley Country Club on Sunday, September 7, and Monday, September 8.