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Wake Forest golfers fall off pace
Chua lone bright spot as Deacons slip to 13th place in NCAA Championships
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Published: May 22, 2009
OWINGS MILLS, Md.
Senior Nannette Hill of Wake Forest stumbled yesterday at the NCAA Women's Golf Championships, starting the day just two shots off the lead but now finding herself six shots back.
She started her day with bogies on Nos. 11 and 13 at the Caves Valley Golf Club, a par 72, 6,433-yard layout, but got one back with a birdie on the tough par-4 16th.
Hill double bogied No. 18 and made another bogey at No. 1 to slip to four over for the day. She parred No. 2 and then made back-to-back birdies on Nos. 3 and 4 to climb to 2-over for the day and was in a three-way tie at the top of the leaderboard at 1-over for the tournament.
But she bogied the next three holes and got a bad break at the par-3 eighth. She hit her tee shot left of the green and the ball bounced off the top of a mound, down a hill, off a cart path and next to a tree.
She took an unplayable lie and made a double-bogey five.
Hill finished with a 79 and is 6-over through 54 holes. She's tied for eighth and is six shots off the lead of Southern Cal's Jennifer Song, who shot a 1-under 71.
Purdue's Maria Hernandez and UCLA's Maria Jose-Unibe are three strokes behind Song in a tie for second place with 2-over 218s. Alice Kim from UC Davis is one shot back, alone in fourth place at 3-over 219, while three players are tied for fifth place with 221: Central Florida's Stephanie Connelly, Pepperdine's Lisa McCloskey and Arizona State's Azahara Munoz. Seven players, including North Carolina's Sydney Crane, are tied in eighth place with 222 totals.
Wake Forest, as a team, shot a 318 to fall back to 13th place through 54 holes.
Senior Jean Chua had the round of the day for the Deacons, with three birdies and three bogies through 12 holes.
Chua is 20 over through 54 holes and is tied for 87th .
UCLA came into the third round with a 7-shot lead but carded a 304 yesterday and is now third. Southern Cal fired a 294 and holds a 1-shot lead on Arizona State, which shot the round of the day at 3-over 291.
North Carolina carded a 306 for a 906 total and is in fourth place going into the final round.
Crane is tied for eighth place after a 3-over 75 yesterday.
"The teams ahead of us played well today and kind of separated themselves from the rest of the field," said Coach Sally Austin of North Carolina. "We stayed ahead of the rest of field. The goal is to go out tomorrow and make it our best round yet and see where it puts us."
Crane, from Jamestown, has a 6-over 222 going into the final round. Freshman Allie White led the Tar Heels yesterday with a 1-over 73. She has a 227 total and is tied for 31st.
Wake Forest will tee off at 8:50 this morning and will be playing with Georgia and Michigan State.
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