MIAMI, FLA. (FIUSports.com) – FIU concluded competition at the 2013 Notre Dame Clover Cup, held at the Longbow Golf Club in Mesa, Ariz., with a 301 in Sunday's final round to finish seventh among the 16 schools competing in this year's event.

For the 54 holes, FIU scored an 896 (305-290-301), +32, to finish three strokes behind sixth-place at 27th-ranked Northwestern (893, +29).

No. 3 Oklahoma won the event at two-under (862), the lone school to finish under par for the tournament. The Sooners were followed by No. 34 SMU (880, +16), No. 11 Texas Tech (882, +18), No. 63 Tulsa (891, +27), No. 22 Notre Dame (892, +28) and Northwestern – just ahead of No. 48 FIU.

FIU's finish within the competitive field was ahead of five other schools in the nation's top 80, including No. 65 Minnesota (8th, 904, +40), No. 40 Mississippi (9th, 906, +42), No. 77 Colorado (10th, 913, +49), No. 68 Kansas (11th, 917, +53) and No. 80 Michigan (12th, 921, +57).

FIU freshman Meghan MacLaren (Cambridge, U.K.) led all Panthers in a tie for 17th at six-over (72-74-76-222). Tulsa's Kristin Merkle won the event at six-under-par (210).
Senior Yolecci Jimenez (Caracas, Venezuela) was the next Panther in the standings, tied for 24th at nine-over (77-73-75-225). Freshman Sophie Godley (Nottinghamshire, U.K), senior Tania Tare (Auckland, New Zealand) and junior Shelby Coyle (Pembroke Pines, Fla.) all finished in a tie for 38th at 13-over.

Freshman Jasmine Wade (Oldsmar, Florida), competing as an individual, finished tied for 46th at 14-over (80-75-75-230).
Next up for the Panthers is the 2013 SunTrust Gator Invitational, March 15-17, at the University of Florida's Mark Bostick Golf Course in Gainesville.

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Located in North Mesa, Longbow Golf Club is just minutes from Phoenix Sky Harbor Airport and Old Town Scottsdale. Longbow Golf Club has hosted many prestigious tournaments and is the home of the AJGA Winn Grips Heather Farr Classic and has hosted the 2010 NCAA Division II Women's Golf Championship, the 2010 and 2011 WAC
Women's Golf Championship, the Golfweek Junior Series National Qualifying, U.S. Amateur qualifying, Gateway Tour events and many others.

The Ken Kavanaugh-designed course is constantly rated highly by leading golf writers and publications and has received numerous honors including being ranked among the Top 100 Resort Courses in the Country by Golfweek in 2009 and the Top 20 Best Public Access Courses in Arizona by Golfweek in 2010. Golf Magazine called the Longbow Golf Club one of the Top 25 Courses in Arizona and Golf Digest gave it Four Stars for Places to Play in 2009 and 2010.

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About FIU Athletics: FIU Athletics is home to more than 400 student-athletes in 18 different sports. Athletic events are played in seven different venues on FIU's campuses
(Modesto A. Maidique and Biscayne Bay), including U.S. Century Bank Arena and Alfonso Field at FIU Stadium.

About FIU: Florida International University is recognized as a Carnegie engaged university. Its colleges and schools offer more than 180 bachelors, masters and doctoral programs in fields such as engineering, international relations, architecture, law and medicine. As one of South Florida's anchor institutions, FIU is worlds ahead in its local and global engagement, finding solutions to the most challenging problems of our time. FIU emphasizes research as a major component of its mission and enrolls nearly 48,000 students in two campuses and three centers including FIU Downtown on Brickell and the Miami Beach Urban Studios. More than 140,000 alumni live and work in South Florida. For more information about FIU, visit http://www.fiu.edu/