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NCAA Fall Preview
Georgia Slips To Fourth At NCAA Preview
September 14, 2010 | Women's Golf
Sept. 14, 2010
BRYAN, Texas --- The No. 13-ranked Georgia women's golf team carded a 9-over 297 in Tuesday's second round of the NCAA Fall Preview at Texas A&M's Traditions Golf Club, slipping from first to fourth on the team leaderboard in the process.
The Bulldogs are eight shots off the pace of Alabama entering Wednesday's final round.
A day after shooting a school-record 11-under, the Bulldogs started slowly before playing better on the back half of the course. Georgia posted just one double-bogey among its five golfers on Monday but had three Bulldogs double-bogey the opening hole on Tuesday.
"It definitely wasn't our best day," head coach Kelley Hester said. "It says a lot about our golf team that they hung in there. A lot of times it's hard to come back after playing great like we did yesterday. All-in-all, we're still in the hunt. We'll go out there tomorrow and do the best we can and go from there."
After turning at 8-over, Georgia played the final nine holes at 1-over as a team.
"We played No. 1 at 7-over and a lot of that was course management stuff," Hester said. "We got ourselves in trouble early, but we still shot 297. Today was a day that last year probably would've turned into a 310 last season. I was proud of them. It started rough, but we were able to hang together."
Marta Silva Zamora led the Bulldogs with a 3-under 69, with Georgia also counting a 75 from Kendall Wright, a 76 from Emilie Burger and a 77 by Milena Savich. On Monday, Georgia discarded a 73 as its non-counter.
Silva Zamora turned at 2-under following birdies at No. 2, No. 5 and No. 6 and a bogey at No. 4. She bogeyed No. 10 but then birdied No. 15 and No. 18 to wrap up at 3-under.
Alabama surged to the top of the team leaderboard with an 8-under 280. The Crimson Tide is 10-under through 36 holes, four shots better than LSU. Rounding out the top-10 teams are Southern Cal at 571, the Bulldogs and Vanderbilt both at 574, Duke and UCLA at 580, Tulane at 590, Virginia at 591 and Auburn and Purdue at 593.
Marina Alex of Vanderbilt and Brooke Pancake of Alabama are knotted atop the individual leaderboard at 6-under 138. For Georgia, Silva Zamora is tied for 10th at 141, Burger is tied for 18th at 143, Wright is tied for 21st at 144, Savich is tied for 48th at 150 and freshman Amelia Hill is tied for 62nd at 152.
Llve scoring for Wednesday's final round is available at www.golfstat.com.
NCAA Fall Preview
Traditions Golf Club
Bryan, Texas
Par 72; 6271 Yards
Tuesday's Second-Round Standings
Team Leaderboard
Alabama 286-280=566
LSU 287-283=570
Southern Cal 289-282=571
Georgia 277-297=574
Vanderbilt 284-290=574
Duke 293-287=580
UCLA 293-287=580
Tulane 294-296=590
Virginia 301-290=591
Auburn 296-297=593
Purdue 300-293=593
Wake Forest 295-299=594
Texas 299-298=597
Michigan State 299-300=599
Texas A&M 297-306=603
Tennessee 306-298=604
Stanford 307-299=606
Pepperdine 307-303=610
Individual Leaderboard
Marina Alex, Vanderbilt 67-71=138
Brooke Pancake, Alabama 65-73=138
Tessa Teachman, LSU 70-69=139
Lindy Duncan, Duke 74-66=140
Stephanie Kono, UCLA 70-70=140
Mary Michael Maggio, LSU 73-67=140
Maribel Lopez Porras, Tulane 71-69=140
Lizette Salas, Southern Cal 70-70=140
Natalie Sheary, Wake Forest 70-70=140
Marta Silva Zamora, Georgia 72-69=141
Cydney Clanton, Auburn 68-73=141
Camilla Lennarth, Alabama 76-65=141
Megan McChrystal, LSU 68-73=141
Additional Georgia Scores
T18. Emilie Burger 67-76=143
T21. Kendall Wright 69-75=144
T48. Milena Savich 73-77=150
T62. Amelia Hill 69-83=152
