BILLINGS, Mont. – Once again led by standout freshman Macy Kleve, Chadron State women's golf shot 35-over-par 323 as a team, which has the Eagles sitting in fourth place among a field of 11 programs after 18 holes at the Yellowjacket Fall Invitational at the Lake Hills Golf Course in Billings, Montana. 

On the individual leaderboard, Kleve is in a four-way tie for third position out of 61 competing golfers after carding a 5-over-par round of 77 on Monday. Klara Kleinig (7-over 79, T-11^th) and Lauren Knapp (9-over 81, T-15^th) are also in the top 15.

Kleve earned her spot near the top of the leaderboard by golfing consistently and avoiding the blow-up hole, finishing her round with a straight-forward 13 pars and five bogeys, with no birdies and no double bogeys or worse. Kleve's 13 pars were the third-most in the field.

With frost delays pushing a scheduled morning start into a noon shotgun start, none of the competitors really got on a hot streak during Monday's action. Montana State-Billings's Ella Tannenberger and Rocky Mountain College's Kadence Fisher hold the individual lead at 4-over-par, with Kleve and three others a stroke behind. Only 13 of 61 golfers broke 80 during the event's opening round. 

Aside from Kleve, one of those 13 was Kleinig, the Leipzig, Germany native who had Chadron State's top scoring average last season as a true freshman. Starting on hole No. 3, Kleinig hit par on four of her first six holes and finished with one birdie and one double bogey, which both came in the last five holes of her round to close at 79.

Lauren Knapp, a freshman out of Rapid City, was the only Eagle with multiple birdies in her opening round, doing so on the par-4 No. 5 and the par-3 No. 14. Knapp started hot, teeing off on No. 3 and shooting 1-under through her first four holes of the day before finishing at 9-over 81. 

CSC's other two golfers competing in Billings are senior Payton Wise (14-over 86, T-36^th) and sophomore Allison Sanger (22-over 94, T-49^th). 

In the team standings, Chadron State is 14 strokes behind leaders Rocky Mountain College, nine strokes behind hosts Montana State-Billings and four strokes behind third-place Seattle Pacific. The Eagles have a five-stroke cushion on the Montana-State Billings "B" team and South Dakota Mines, who are tied for fifth. Black Hills State, the other RMAC team in the field, sits in seventh at 47-over, 12 strokes behind CSC. 

The event's final round is set for Tuesday, with another 12 p.m. shotgun start currently scheduled.