Miami Golf Wins Mercedes Benz Collegiate Championship; First Alert: October 24, 2024

The Miami Golf team traveled to Knoxville, Tennessee earlier this week to compete in the 2024 Mercedes Benz Collegiate Championship at Cherokee Country Club.
The ladies were looking for their first top-three finish and overall win of the season to spark momentum ahead of next week's Hurricane Invitational in Coral Gables.
The team responded with a wire-to-wire victory, leading after rounds one, two and three, securing their first top finish of the year by five strokes.
Mercedes Benz champs has a nice ring to it 🤩 pic.twitter.com/p3dUgJYDnA
— Miami Hurricanes Women's Golf (@hurricanesgolf) October 22, 2024
Sophomore Rebekah Gardner secured the win on the final day, shooting a team-best 69 (-2) on Tuesday afternoon. She and freshman Cloe Amion Villarino finished tied for seventh on the weekend with an overall score of two over par. The Canes had five different players in the top 20 and shot an overall score of ten over par for the tournament.
The ladies will look to build off their victory next week home at the Hurricane Invitational, an event they won last year.
Hurricane Schedule:
Soccer: Miami @ Syracuse; 7:00 p.m. EST | Syracuse, NY | ACC Network Extra | Live Stats, Watch
Hurricanes Results:
No games scheduled on October 23rd, 2024
Did You Notice...
- Junior Raquel Gonzalez was the runner up in the ITA Regional Final. She will compete in the 2024 NCAA Singles Championship in Waco, Texas next month.
Congratulations to Raquel Gonzalez on becoming the ITA Southeast Regional Runner-Up 🙌
— Miami Hurricanes Women’s Tennis (@CanesWTennis) October 22, 2024
More to come from this one in Waco! pic.twitter.com/jFoZpU5Yqv
- During the aforementioned Mercedes Benz Collegiate Championships, Sophomore Cloe Amion Villarino made a hole in one on the 183-yard par three at the second hole on Monday en route to her top-ten finish this week.
That’s a hole in one for Cloe 🙌🙌 pic.twitter.com/QOJjvzbWkk
— Miami Hurricanes Women's Golf (@hurricanesgolf) October 21, 2024
We'll Leave You With This
⚫️⚫️⚫️⚫️#GoCanes pic.twitter.com/PyZAhhqbZu
— Miami Hurricanes Football (@CanesFootball) October 23, 2024

Peyton Davis is an intern with BamaCentral, covering football, basketball and baseball. He has also covered for the Miami and Boston College OnSI sites. He will graduate from Alabama in the spring of 2025 with a degree and news media. During his four years at UA, Peyton appeared on the radio for WVUA-FM as well as Tide 100.9, along with covering games for WVUA23 and beat reporting for both football and basketball. Born and raised in New Orleans, Peyton has also contributed for local sites such as Cresent City Sports, covering high school football and baseball as well as BootKrewe Media, where he covered the New Orleans Saints.