Women's Golf Opens Play at NCAA East Regional
5/22/2002 12:00:00 AM | Women's Golf
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BATON ROUGE, La. -- The University of Alabama women’s golf squad carded an opening round 308 on Thursday in NCAA East Regional play at the par 72, 6,506-yard LSU University Club golf course.
Senior Sarah Johnston, a native of Benton, La., enjoyed her return to her home state posting a first round two-over-par 74 to pace the Crimson Tide lineup. Freshman Darby Sligh also had a solid round on Thursday finishing with a score of 76.
“We did some good things today,” said UA head coach Betty Palmer. “The thing that cost us was the fact that we had too many big scores on a few holes. We can put up some low numbers on this course we just have to do a better job of managing the course the next two days.”
In addition to Johnston and Sligh, the Tide’s first day scores included Anna Strandberg with a 78, Mandy Tedder at 80 and Erica Boozman with an 82.
The University of Florida carded a two-under-par 286 to take the early lead in the team competition. Auburn is in second-place at 287 followed by South Florida (289), Duke (291), Wake Forest (293), North Carolina (294), Vanderbilt (296), LSU (297), South Carolina and Furman (298), Memphis (299), Tulane and Georgia (300), Tennessee and North Carolina State (303), Central Florida (305), Texas A&M (306), Mississippi State (307), Alabama, Yale (316) and Jackson State (335).
Tournament play at the NCAA Regional continues through Saturday. The top eight teams and the top two individual finishers not on one of those squads will earn invitations to the NCAA Championship Tournament at the end of May in Auburn, Wash.
Alabama Results (Thru 18 holes)
19th Alabama 308
T28 Sarah Johnston 74
T52 Darby Sligh 76
T67 Anna Strandberg 78
T88 Mandy Tedder 80
T97 Erica Boozman 82
