At the end of each day of the Central District Classic, Michigan women's golf coach Kathy Teichert described her team's performance with the same word: disappointing.

In their second tournament of the year, which concluded yesterday in Parrish, Fla., the Wolverines finished last out of 15 teams. This latest setback comes just over a week after a tenth-place finish out of 16 at the Lady Puerto Rico Classic in Parrish, Florida.

Michigan fell behind the rest of the field early in the three-day, 54-hole competition, which featured seven of the nation's top-25 teams. After the first day of the tournament, it found itself in the tournament cellar and trailing first-place and eventual winner Auburn by 49 strokes.

“Playing with such a great field is a great experience, but then again, we didn’t even place respectably," junior Ashley Bauer said. “We got a lot of room for improvement. We’re a young team with a lot of talent. I think we just got to realize that talent and gain confidence. Hopefully, over the next couple of weeks we’ll do that.”

Teichert said direction of the wind played a role throughout the three rounds, but she also said there were no excuses for the performance. Instead, she attributed the lack of success to the team’s lack of execution.

“The golf course, you know, played the same for everyone,” she said. "It’s just that we didn’t adapt and adjust as much as we needed to, and we just made a lot of mistakes.”

The five golfers that Michigan brought to the River Wilderness Country Club were inconsistent. Freshman Milena Savich and Bauer were the lone Wolverines that did well on the tournament's first day, both ending in a tie for 21st. Savich's second round was highlighted by an eagle on the par-five 15th hole.

But their scores took a turn for the worse during the third round on the second day of the tournament. They each shot nine strokes worse than their second-round totals, which ultimately led to the team's last-place finish.

The Wolverines had a three-round total of 949, three strokes behind Kansas and Missouri, who tied for 13th.

The team will need to regroup for its next event, The Red Rocks Invitational, which begins on Feb. 28 in Sedona, Ariz. Teichert said her coaching strategy heading into that tournament is to allow her young team to simply enjoy the game and the competition.

Bauer remains optimistic that there are still great opportunities for success despite the Wolverines' poor finishes the past couple of weeks.

“We’re all good players, and we have to realize that and realize the potential that’s out there," Bauer said. "We've got to learn from these experiences and continue to build. We’ve got a long way to go but we can get there."