BROKEN ARROW, Okla. – If the penultimate tournament was any indication of how Tarleton will perform in the WAC Women's Golf Championship, the Texans will fare just fine in the biggest event of the year.
 
Mathilde Brogens logged her best outing of the season, followed closely by Elle Fox's second straight top-20 result, helping Tarleton to a fifth-place finish at the Oral Roberts Spring Invitational in Broken Arrow, Oklahoma, Monday-Tuesday.
 
Brogens shot a season-best +1 (72-72-73), her best score to par by six strokes on the year, taking sixth place at The Club at Indian Springs. Brogens and Fox were both even-par after the first two rounds, tied for third. Fox finished tied-16th at +7 (74-70-79) overall.
 
This was the second time this season Tarleton placed in the top-five, only behind their fourth-place result at the Utah Tech Zupas Trailblazer Invitational in mid-February.
 
The Texans' five-woman group in Oklahoma also included Sofia Rodriguez (+14, 78-77-75, tied-31st), Angela Inocian (+24, 79-82-79, tied-59th), and Alejandra Cambronero (+39, 90-85-80, 71st).
 
Brogens opened her tournament with about as clean of a card as one can have, holing 16 pars, a birdie and a bogey. In the second round, she recorded four birdies to combat two bogeys and a double. In the third round, Brogens battled back from an early double bogey, and even birdied her final hole to take sixth all by herself.
 
The Texan sophomore had the tied-fifth best score on Par 3's in the 76-woman field, earning an overall score of even-par. She had the tied-seventh best score on Par 4's at +1, and ended up shooting the tied-eighth most birdies in the tournament with nine across 54 holes.
 
Fox started her event with a birdie, one of two within her first four holes, but the second round is where she was exceptional. The Copperas Cove, Texas, native, had a flawless Round 2, with 16 pars and two birdies for a -2 (70). She had a 24-hole stretch without a bogey or worse that carried into the final round. At +7 overall, this was Fox's third-best tournament score to par of the year.
 
Like Brogens, Fox also had the tied-fifth best score on Par 3's at even-par. She put in the third most pars in the tournament with 40, just one short of the second most.
 
Rodriguez ended her tournament with her best round of +3 (75), posting 11 pars, two birdies and five bogeys. Inocian turned in her best score of the season at +24 in her first tournament played since mid-February. Cambronero improved by 10 strokes from her first round to her third round.
 
Now awaits just the WAC Women's Golf Championship for the Texans, set for April 23-25 in Blaine, Washington, at Semiahmoo Golf and Country Club. This is the first year Tarleton is eligible to participate as a team in the conference tournament. Last season, Tarleton finished a would-be fifth out of 12 participating teams in the tournament at +62 overall.