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Duke's Blumenherst advances to stroke play at Women's Amateur
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Published: August 6, 2008
EUGENE, Ore. -- Amanda Blumenherst, 22, of Scottsdale, Ariz., and Stephanie Na, 19, of Australia, both finished at 4-under 140 to share medalist honors after yesterday's final round of stroke play at the U.S. Women's Amateur Championship, being played at the 6,484-yard, par-72 Eugene Country Club.
Blumenherst followed her first-round 6-under 66 with a 2-over 74. Blumenherst, a three-time college player of the year at Duke and the 2007 Women's Amateur runner-up, ran into trouble with consecutive double bogeys on the 10th and 11th holes.
For Blumenherst, a two-time member of the U.S. Curtis Cup, whose 66 on Monday tied the Women's Amateur 18-hole scoring record, the most important result of her two days of stroke-play qualifying was that she advanced.
Na and Blumenherst advanced as top seeds for match play, which will begin today.
The cut was set at 8-over 152, with 64 players advancing to match play.
More golf
■ Anthony Tsiolkas of Winston-Salem shot 65-69 Monday and yesterday at The Club at Irish Creek in Kannapolis and secured a spot in this month's U.S. Amateur Golf Championship at Pinehurst No. 2.
Tsiolkas and Crawford Reeves of Greenville, S.C. (67-67) shared medalist honors at 6-under-par 134.
Austin Cody of Charleston, S.C., George Gandranata of Indonesia and Corey Nagy of Charlotte also qualified, and Jakin Fox of Statesville is the first alternate.
The U.S. Amateur, which has 312 players in the field, will start Aug. 18.
■ Jim Cooney, a former attorney for the Duke lacrosse team, is now representing the university and golf coach O.D. Vincent III in a lawsuit filed by Andrew Giuliani, The News & Observer of Raleigh reported yesterday.
Giuliani, the son of former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani, filed a lawsuit against Duke last month, claiming he was dismissed without cause from the golf team earlier this year.
Basketball
■ North Carolina, which returns Tyler Hansbrough, the national player of the year, and its top five other scorers from last season's Final Four team, will open the 25th EA Sports Maui Invitational against host Chaminade.
The pairings for the tournament, scheduled Nov. 24-26 at the Lahaina Civic Center, were announced yesterday. The other first-round games will match Texas, a regional finalist last season, against Saint Joseph's, Indiana against Notre Dame and Oregon against Alabama. All games will be televised live on one of ESPN's networks.
In addition to Hansbrough, North Carolina returns Ty Lawson, Danny Green and Wayne Ellington -- who all withdrew their names from the NBA Draft -- from a 36-3 team.
North Carolina won the Maui Invitational in 1999 and 2004. Indiana (2002) is the only other former champion in the field.
■ Tarence Kinsey, a former South Carolina star, has signed a contract with the Cleveland Cavaliers after spending part of last season overseas.
General Manager Danny Ferry of the Cavs announced the deal.
Kinsey, 24, played for Memphis as a rookie in 2006-07, averaging nearly eight points a game. He split last season between the Grizzlies and a team in the Turkish Basketball League.
Kinsey spent four seasons with the Gamecocks. He played on both NIT title teams in 2005 and 2006.
■ Guard Jordan Farmar of the Los Angeles Lakers, the NBA's only Jewish player, showed his dribbling, shooting and slam-dunking skills at a clinic in southern Israel yesterday for Jewish and Arab kids.
Farmar, 21, is the guest of the Peres Center for Peace, founded by Shimon Peres, a Nobel Peace Prize laureate and now Israel's president, to encourage cooperation between Israelis and Palestinians. One of the ways the center tries to improve relationships is through children playing sports together.
Farmar is the first Jewish player in the NBA since Danny Schayes -- son of Hall of Famer Dolph Schayes -- retired in 1999.
Tennis
■ Croatia's Mario Ancic withdrew from the U.S. Open yesterday with a recurrence of mononucleosis, the second straight year in which Ancic, the 25th-ranked player, has been forced to miss the tournament. Ancic, a former Wimbledon semifinalist, was slowed throughout the 2007 season because of mononucleosis. He pulled out of the Open last August because of an injured right shoulder.
■ A federal jury yesterday cleared the way for the ATP Tour's planned tournament restructuring next year, rejecting antitrust claims in a lawsuit filed by the German Tennis Federation.
Jurors in U.S. District Court in Wilmington, Del., deliberated about nine hours before upholding the Association of Tennis Professionals' tournament restructuring, which would move the Hamburg clay court tournament from May to July and eliminate it as a key tuneup for the French Open.
Miscellaneous
■ Genevieve Miller finished fourth, and Kathleen Baker finished 21st Monday in the 3-kilometer, 11-12 girls race at the Georgia Open Water state swimming championships. Both girls are from Winston-Salem.
■ Coach Craig Bohl of North Dakota State has a new contract makes him one of the highest-paid coaches in the Football Championship Subdivision.
The school reworked a seven-year deal Bohl signed in 2005. It includes a ticket-sales compensation clause and could be worth more than $300,000 if his team wins a national championship.
WE WERE WRONG
Stanley Arnoux was left off the list of Wake Forest football players who have started at least 24 games. Also on the list, published Saturday, are: Aaron Curry, Kevin Patterson, Matt Robinson, Riley Skinner, Alphonso Smith and Sam Swank.
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