The Bakersfield College women’s golf team was able to qualify one golfer to Regional at the Western State Conference Finals  on Oct. 28-29.

Chelsey Roberts qualified to Regionals with a score of 175. Andrea Marquez just missed out on Regionals by three strokes. She ended with 184.

“I’m very pleased with our effort, said BC coach Bob Paillet. “Every girl gave it her all, and Chelsey played well under pressure.”

BC also placed fourth in the final regular season Western State Conference tournament on Oct. 22. BC finished with a score of 398. Glendale College took first with 323, College of the Canyons took second with 326, Santa Barbara City College took third with 370 and Citrus ended up in last with 411.

Chelsey Roberts led the way for BC with a score of 93. Melissa Lopez scored a 99, Andrea Marquez scored a 100 and Taylor Kurtz scored a 111. According to BC coach Bob Paillet, Cambria Ulrich is no longer on the team due to a personal choice.

The tournament originally was going to be at Stockdale Country Club, but another person offered to pay the country club for that date, and since BC was going to play there for free, they got bumped.

They relocated the tournament to be held at Tierra Rejeda in Simi Valley.

“I thought we could’ve done better,” said Paillet. “When we go to some of these golf courses down in L.A., they’re very hilly, so we don’t have time to practice on these types of courses because all of ours are all flat here. It’s a lot harder hitting on the side of a hill. They’re not used to it, but they should’ve done better than that.

“We made too many mistakes, and had too many penalty strokes. There was a lot of water, it was very hilly and they ended up making a lot of mistakes. Each of them played the first half of the holes very well, but then made mistakes in the other half and it cost them. It cost them more than one stroke. It cost two or three each time, so they added up.”

The Regionals are scheduled to be on Nov. 5-6, but the site has yet to be announced.