BLAIRSVILLE, Ga. – The University of Pikeville women's golf team wrapped up the fall semester with a dominant performance to win the 2026 AAC Fall Preview on Tuesday.
 
The Bears finished with a three-round score of 918 to win the tournament by 33 strokes. Additionally, UPike had five of the Top 12 finishers on the individual scoreboard.
 
The title marks the 30^th win in the coaching career of Women's Golf Coach Nelson Scott.
 
The tournament was played at Old Union Golf Course, a 5,930-yard, par 72 course.
 
UPike was followed by Truett McConnell (Ga.), which shot 951 to finish second. Reinhardt (Ga.) was third at 980, while Milligan (Tenn.) shot 1,007 for fourth place.
 
The Bears shot three-round scores of 304-301-313 for the win.
 
Junior Tayla Howroyd was the individual winner with a score of 222, shooting 73, 74, 75. She won the tournament by one stroke over Reinhardt's Georgia Womack, the nation's 13^th-ranked player.
 
Sophomore Keira Howroyd recorded a fourth-place finish by shooting 226, only four strokes off her sister's pace. She shot rounds of 74, 75 and 77.
 
Freshman Darcy Lawson, senior Laney Sorrell and sophomore Tiffanie Tran were among five players tied for eighth. They each shot 239. Sorrell, a native of Ashland, had a second-round score of 73; only one player in the field had a round lower than that.
 
Senior Kaitlyn Stepp, playing as an individual, shot 279 to tie for 31^st.