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Carolina Women's Golfers Are Tied For Second At Landfall
October 23, 2010 | Women's Golf
Oct. 23, 2010
WILMINGTON, N.C. -
The UNC women's golf team fired a 1-under 287 in the second round of The Landfall Tradition and jumped up to a tie for second place at 4-over 580 going into Sunday's final round. Two Tar Heel freshmen, Casey Grice and Katherine Perry, are tied for third place in the individual race.
"It was a little bit of a shaky start, but the girls kept it together and had some birdies coming in," says Tar Heel head coach Jan Mann. "We just played some solid golf on a tough golf course. We're looking forward to tomorrow - it will be some great competition, beautiful weather and a great golf course. We hope to have a good round."
Grice, from College Station, Texas, fired a 1-under 71 in the second round as did Tar Heel Catherine O'Donnell, a junior from Ponte Vedra Beach, Fla. Grice started out with a birdie on hole #1 and then bogeyed three of the next five holes, but held her own before picking up birdies on holes 13, 14 and 16. O'Donnell bogeyed the first two holes, but then turned it around and birdied four holes before picking up a bogey on hole #17. The 1-under 71 score put Grice in a tie for third place at 2-under 142 while O'Donnell is tied for 15th at 4-over 148. Perry, who hails from Cary, N.C., fired an even par 72 and, like Grice, is tied for third place at 2-under 142. Courtney Gunter, a sophomore from Matthews, N.C., carded a 1-over 73 and is tied with O'Donnell for 15th place at 4-over 148. Freshman Jackie Chang, from Paradise Valley, Ariz., shot a 6-over 78 for a 155 total and is tied for 54th place.
Duke fired a 4-under 284 on Saturday for a 1-under 575 total to lead the field of 18 teams. Carolina and UCLA are just five strokes back in a tie for second place at 4-over 580. Texas is a distant fourth at 17-over 593 after shooting a 14-over 302 in the second round. Virginia is in fifth place at 594 while Michigan State is sixth at 598, Notre Dame is seventh at 600 and Wake Forest is eighth at 605.
Brittany Altomare of Virginia grabbed the individual lead after firing a 4-under 68 on Saturday for a 5-under 139 total. Lindy Duncan of Duke, however, fired the low round of the day, a 6-under 66, and is just one stroke back in second place at 4-under 140. Three players are tied for third place at 2-under 142 - Carolina's Grice and Perry and UCLA's Tiffany Lua. Aleja Cangrejo of Duke and Nicole Vandermade of Texas are tied for sixth place at even par 144 while UCLA's Ani Gulugian and Notre Dame's Becca Huffer are tied for eighth place at 1-over 145.
The final round of the 54-hole event will be played Sunday at the Country Club of Landfall Dye Course which features a par 72, 6,244-yard layout. Live scoring is available on Golfstat.com.
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