It was a long shot for the Bauer sisters, but the potential was there.

After making it through the qualifier at the 94th Annual Michigan Women’s Amateur last Monday and Tuesday, Ashley and Meagan Bauer found themselves on opposite sides of the 32-person match-play bracket. Both would have to win four matches in order to face each other in the finals on Friday.

Despite playing fairly well in high-pressure situations throughout the tournament, Ashley and Meagan both fell in the quarterfinals, ending their bid to eventually face each other.

Ashley, who graduated from the Ross School of Business in the spring, holds nearly every record in the Michigan women’s golf record book.

After shooting 75-69 to qualify for the match-play tournament as the fourth seed, Ashley won her first round match against 29th-ranked Molly Esordi, 3 & 2. In the second round, she defeated 20th-ranked Sarah Johnson to move on to the quarterfinals.

“I played really well and made a lot of putts in the first round,” Ashley said. “I was never really more than one up, I think, until the last couple holes in the first match. In the second match, we both didn’t play our ‘A’ game. I got a couple breaks on that. Both of us didn’t play to our potential.”

Meagan, a junior on the golf team this coming fall, was the 11th-seed after posting 79-73 in the qualifier, defeated 22nd-seed Michelle Bowles 3 & 1 in the first round and sixth-seeded Alexandra Lipa 2 & 1 in the second round.

Two more victories stood in the way of a possible Bauer-versus-Bauer final. The two sisters had never played against each other in match play before. Unfortunately, it would stay that way.

On Thursday, Meagan faced Michigan State senior and No. 3 seed Natalie Brehm in the quarterfinals.

After losing the first three holes, it appeared that Meagan would be defeated easily, until she fought back and cut the deficit to just one going into No. 17. But it was too little, too late, as Brehm parred the par-4, 17th and Meagan bogeyed after hitting her approach shot into the bunker.

“It was pretty close when it got towards the end,” Meagan said. “I felt like it could have gone either way, but I just didn’t quite make it through. I went out there and tried my best. You win some and you lose some, and unfortunately it didn’t end up how I wanted.”

On Thursday afternoon, Ashley squared off in a nail-biter against Ohio State sophomore and No. 5 seed Amy Meier in her quarterfinal match.

After draining a 20-foot birdie putt on No. 15 to win the hole, Ashley was down one with three to play. She followed that up by hitting her approach shot to within 10 feet of the hole on No. 16, and it appeared that she was in great shape to even up the match. But she went on to three-putt the hole and Meier two-putted, and just like that Ashley was two down with two to play. After another nice approach shot to about eight feet on No. 17, Ashley failed to convert the birdie putt and both she and Meier parred, giving the victory to Meier.

“I missed a couple of putts that cost me, which seems to be the story of my career to anyone who’s watched me,” she said. “Unfortunately I came up a couple short, but I played well. I’m disappointed that I didn’t make those putts, but she played very well too.”