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Darius Rucker Intercollegiate
Georgia Tied For 13th On Hilton Head
March 06, 2015 | Women's Golf
HILTON HEAD ISLAND, S.C. --- The Georgia women's golf team opened the Darius Rucker Intercollegiate with a 303 in Friday's opening round. The Bulldogs are tied for 13th with No. 12 Wake Forest and Alabama in a stacked field featuring seven top-10 and 12 top-20 teams.
The Bulldogs received steady play from Manuela Carbajo Ré, Sammi Lee and Isabella Skinner on Friday. Carbajo Ré led Georgia with a 3-over 74, while Lee and Skinner added a pair of 75s. Harang Lee rounded out the Bulldogs' counting tallies with a 79.
The Bulldogs teed off from No. 10 and played the back side of the Long Cove Club first. Georgia struggled early and played the first five holes at a combined 14-over and turned at 18-over.
The Bulldogs rallied and were 1-over as a team on the front side, with Sammi Lee shooting 1-under, Carbajo Ré at even-par and Harang Lee and Skinner both at 1-over.
"They played great on our back nine," head coach Josh Brewer said. "They showed a lot of courage and guts to put up a good number after the first five or six holes. It was hard out there and the weather wasn't the best. The way we played those last 10-12 holes was a great sign and should give us a shot of momentum heading into the weekend."
Overall, Carbajo Ré is tied for 22nd, Sammi Lee and Skinner are tied for 35th, Harang Lee is tied for 66th and Sylvie Brick, who signed for an 84, is tied for 86th.
A 2-under 69 from Gabriella Then of Southern Cal helped place the Women of Troy atop both the individual and team leaderboards. Then owns a one-shot lead over Tennessee's Anna Newell, North Carolina's Leslie Cloots, Southern Cal's Karen Chung and Arkansas' Gaby Lopez. No. 2 Southern Cal is six shots ahead of No. 8 LSU.
Play continues through Sunday, with live scoring available at www. golfstat.com.
Darius Rucker Intercollegiate
Long Cove Club
Hilton Head Island, S.C.
Par 71; 6221 Yards
Friday's First-Round Standings
Team Leaderboard
Southern Cal 285
LSU 291
Arkansas 293
Duke 293
North Carolina 293
Auburn 298
Arizona State 298
South Carolina 299
Furman 300
Tennessee 300
Mississippi State 300
Vanderbilt 301
Georgia 303
Alabama 303
Wake Forest 303
Virginia 304
Kentucky 310
Individual Leaderboard
Gabriella Then, Southern Cal 69
Anna Newell, Tennessee 70
Leslie Cloots, North Carolina 70
Karen Chung, Southern Cal 70
Gary Lopez, Arkansas 70
Taylor Totland, Furman 71
Noemi Jimenez, Arizona State 71
Caroline Nistrup, LSU 71
Madelene Sagstrom, LSU 71
Gurbani Singh, Duke 72
Marissa Dodd, Wake Forest 72
Kyung Kim, Southern Cal 72
Jia Xin Yang, South Carolina 72
Regina Plasencia, Arkansas 72
Lauren Coughlin, Virginia 72
Cindy Ha, Vanderbilt 72
Georgia Scores
T22. Manuela Carbajo Ré, Georgia 74
T35. Sammi Lee, Georgia 75
T35. Isabella Skinner, Georgia 75
T66. Harang Lee, Georgia 79
T85. Sylvie Brick, Georgia 84
