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Liz Murphey Collegiate Classic
Carolina Golfers 14th At Liz Murphey Collegiate Classic
April 1, 2011 | Women's Golf
April 1, 2011
ATHENS, GA. -
The North Carolina women's golf team fired a 9-over-par 297 and sits in 14th place after the first round of the Liz Murphey Collegiate Classic. Freshman Casey Grice led the Tar Heels on Friday as she fired an even par 72.
Grice, from College Station, Tex., is tied for fourth following her even par in the first round. Junior Catherine O'Donnell, from Ponte Vedra Beach, Fla., fired a 4-over-par 76 and is tied for 30th while junior Allie white shot 77 and freshman Jackie Chang carded a 78. White, from Lancaster, Ohio, is tie for 42nd place while Chang, from Paradise Valley, Ariz., is tied for 59th. Katherine Perry, a freshman from Cary, N.C., shot an 82 and is tied for 102nd place.
This tournament has a different format than most college events - one that promotes a "team" atmosphere. All five competitors from each school are playing together as opposed to one player from three schools playing together. A team's score for each hole is determined by the low four scores on that hole. The individual championship is still the player with the best relation-to-par score over 54 holes.
Purdue grabbed the first-round lead over the 23-team field with a 4-under 284 team total. Alabama is two strokes back in second place while Duke and Georgia are tied for third at 3-over 291. Florida State is alone in fifth place at 293 while four teams are tied for sixth at 294 - Arkansas, Auburn, Virginia and Wake Forest.
Aleja Cangrejo of Duke and Hannah Thomson of Florida State each fired a 2-under-par 70 to grab the first-round individual lead. Purdue's Numa Gulyanamitta is alone in third place one stroke back at 1-under 71 while four players are tied for fourth at even par 72 - Carolina's Grice, Kennesaw State's Hayley Cinning, Purdue's Laura Gonzalez and Arkansas' Emily Tubert.
The 54-hole event continues through Sunday and is being played at the University of Georgia which features a par 72, 6,335-yard layout. Live scoring is available throughout the event at www.golfstat.com.
