RU Women Tied for 5th at BIG EAST Championships
Apr 18 | Women's Golf
PALM HARBOR, Fla. -The Rutgers women's golf team is tied for fifth place with a 631 (312-319) score after two rounds of the 2011 BIG EAST Championships, played Sunday and Monday at Innisbrook Golf & Spa Resort. Sophomore Brittany Weddell (Buzzards Bay, Mass.) is 10th with a 152 (74-78) tally entering Tuesday's final round.
Weddell is even in par three scoring, plus one in par five scoring and has five birdies.
Junior Lizzy Carl (Mendota Heights, Minn.) and senior team captain Jeanne Waters (West Sayville, N.Y.) are also among the top 20 competitors. Carl is tied for 13th with a 156 (80-76) and Waters is tied for 18th with a 158. Sophomore Karen Cash (Allendale, N.J.) and junior Elisa Mateer (Marmora, N.J.) round out the team scorecard with 165 (81-84) and 184 (89-95) totals to sit 30th and tied for 38th, respectively.
Notre Dame owns a commanding 18-stroke advantage over second-place Louisville. After shooting a 295 in the first round of the Championship on Sunday, the Irish followed that by carding 297 on Monday. The 297 was the best score for any team in the second round. The Irish have three players in the top three of the individual leaderboard. Freshman Kristina Nhim leads the Irish after shooting even par 72 in the second round to total 145 through two rounds. She is in second place, three strokes off the lead. First round leader junior Becca Huffer sits tied for third with senior teammate So-Hyun Park with a two round total of 148.
Louisville moved into second place by shooting 302 in the second round for a total of 610. The Cardinals are led by sophomore Anna-Karin Ljungstrom, who is tied for third with a score of 148. Ljungstrom fired a 72 in the second round. Georgetown is in third place with a two-round total of 623. USF sits fourth with a score of 625.
Individually, St. John's freshman Harin Lee had a record-setting day to take over first place. Lee shot a three-under par 69, tying for the second lowest single-round score in the history of the BIG EAST Women's Golf Championship. Lee eagled the par-five second hole, and recorded two birdies with just one bogey. Combined with her 73 in round one, Lee has a two-round total of 142, the lowest 36-hole score in BIG EAST Women's Golf Championship history. She is two-under par and holds a three-stroke advantage heading into the final round.
Final round action begins Tuesday at 8 a.m. Eastern.
