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Sunday, May 20, 2018

Knight, tied for indivdiual lead, has Alabama ahead of the pack in NCAA Championship


   With its Big Three coming up huge, Alabama, No. 1 in the latest Golfstat rankings, grabbed the lead after three rounds of qualifying for match play in a Sunday filled with drama in the NCAA Championship at Karsten Creek Golf Club in Stillwater, Okla.
   It all set the stage for an even more dramatic Monday when the NCAA individual champion will be crowned and the top eight finishers in the team competition will extend their seasons to Tuesday morning’s quarterfinal round of match play.
   The original 24-team field was cut to 15 teams Sunday with No. 25 Louisville prevailing via tiebreaker after finishing tied for 15th with No. 19 Auburn, defending national champion Arizona State, ranked 10th, and No. 18 Wake Forest. The tiebreaker? Low total of the dropped fifth score from each round. Yeah, just when you thought that fifth score each day didn’t matter.
   The rankings don’t matter much at this point, but it might validate those rankings that the No. 1 team in the land, the Crimson Tide, are at the top of the talented heap going into Monday’s final round.
   With Cheyenne Knight, a junior from Aledo, Texas, Lauren Stephenson, a junior from Lexington, S.C., and Kristen Gillman, a sophomore from Austin, Texas, each carding a 2-under-par 70 over the 6,328-yard, par-72 Karsten Creek layout, the Crimson Tide had the low round of the day, a 4-under 284 that left them at 2-under 862 for three rounds.
   They are the only team under par for three rounds over a Karsten Creek layout that has proven to be a formidable challenge for the best women in Division I golf. As it should be.
   No. 3 UCLA, the Pac-12 champion, had surged into the lead with a sizzling 9-under 279 in Saturday’s second round, but backed off Sunday with a 9-over 297. Still, the Bruins have a solid hold on second at 6-over 870, eight shots behind Alabama.
   All that really matters at this point is finishing among the top eight at the end of play Monday and earning a berth in match play and the Bruins are in very good shape to do just that.
   It’s another 10 shots back to No. 9 Arizona in third at 16-over 880 after a solid even-par round of 288.
   Three of the biggest names in Division I women’s golf inhabit the next three spots in the standings with No. 6 Southern California in fifth at 21-over 885 after an 8-over 296, No. 4 Duke, winner of the Madison Regional, in sixth at 25-over 889 after a 5-over 293, and No. 7 Stanford, winner of the San Francisco Regional, in seventh at 26-over 890 after a second straight 3-over 291.
   No. 10 Kent State, which grabbed the eighth and final berth into match play at Rich Harvest Farms a year ago, holds eighth through three rounds at 27-over 861 after an 8-over 296.
   No. 21 Florida State is ninth at 30-over 294 after an 11-over 299 and No. 26 Baylor moved into 10th place with a 1-under 287.
   No. 2 Arkansas, the Southeastern Conference champion and winner of the Austin Regional, finally found its footing with a 1-over 289 that pulled the Razorbacks into 11th at 33-over 897. They’ll need more of the same to move into the top eight and, trust me, nobody wants any part of the Razorbacks in a quarterfinal match.
   No. 7 Furman moved into 12th at 35-over 899 with a 6-over 294. No. 8 Texas, the Big 12 champion, had also struggled at Karsten Creek, but the Longhorns lived to play another day with a 3-over 291 that left them in 13th place at 36-over 900.
   No. 15 Washington, the 2016 NCAA champion, carded an 11-over 299 to sneak into the top 15 at 14th with a 902 total. The Huskies make it five Pac-12 teams among the 15 survivors.
Then there was Louisville, its final round 302 giving it a 903 total matched by three other teams. More on the Cardinals later.
   Alabama’s Knight, the No. 14 player in the Women’s World Amateur Golf Ranking (WAGR), will take a share of the individual lead into the final round. Her 70 left her at 7-under 209.
   Knight is joined at that figure by Wake Forest’s Jennifer Kupcho, a junior from Westminster, Colo. and No. 3 in the Women’s WAGR who also had a 2-under 70 Sunday. A runnerup finisher a year ago at Rich Harvest Farms, Kupcho opened with a splash, a 7-under 65, before backing off with a 75 Saturday. She enters the final round very much in the hunt for the individual title – again.
   The 70 by the Tide’s Stephenson, a junior from Lexington, S.C. and No. 6 in the Women’s WAGR, left her tied for fifth, four shots behind the two co-leaders at 3-under 213.
The 70 by the Tide’s Gillman, a sophomore from Austin, Texas and No. 11 in the Women’s WAGR, has her in a group of four players tied for seventh at 1-under 215.
   Also for Alabama, the runaway winner of the Tallahassee Regional, Angelica Moresco, a freshman from Italy is in the group tied for 58th at 229 after a 78 that the Tide was able to throw out. Lakareber Abe, the veteran senior from Angleton, Texas, struggled for two rounds at Karsten Creek, but picked up the team with a 2-over 74 Sunday that left her in the group tied for 66th at 231.
   Ohio State’s Jaclyn Lee, a junior from Canada and the Big Ten champion, continued her strong postseason by firing a sizzling 6-under 66 that left her tied for third in the individual standings at 6-under 210, a shot behind the co-leaders, with Arizona’s Bianca Pagdanganan, a junior from the Philippines. Pagdanganan carded a solid 1-under 71.
   Joining Stephenson in the tie for fifth at 3-under 213 is Florida State’s Kim Metraux, a senior from Switzerland. Kim won low-Metraux honors for the second day in a row with a 1-under 71. Sister Morgane, also a senior, was tied with her sister for fifth place entering the third round. Morgane Metraux carded a 2-over 74 and is tied for 10th at even-par 216.
   Alabama’s Gillman is joined in the trio tied for seventh at 1-under 215 by a couple of big guns, UCLA’s Lilia Vu, a junior from Fountain Valley, Calif. and No. 1 in the Women’s WAGR, and Stanford’s Albane Valenzuela, a sophomore from Switzerland and No. 4 in the Women’s WAGR.
Vu fell back with a 3-over 75 while Valenzuela matched Ohio State’s Lee for the best round of the day with a sparkling 6-under 66.
   Somewhere U.S. Curtis Cup captain Virginia Derby Grimes is smiling. Kupcho, Stephenson, Gillman and Vu are all members of her team that will take on Great Britain & Ireland next month at Quaker Ridge Golf Club in Scarsdale, N.Y.
   You’re always following the top teams, the top players in an event like this. But with the tiebreaker going to Louisville because of the combined total of the Cardinals’ dropped scores, who had that fifth score?
   It was Olivia Cason, a junior from Owensboro, Ky. who carded an 83. Cason and the Cardinals were grinding all weekend. Cason had one of four 76s recorded by Louisville in the opening round, one of which it could toss. Cason had one of three 77s for the Cardinals Saturday and again, one of those they were able to throw out.
   I’m sure Cason wasn’t happy with her 83, but because she kept grinding, Louisville will play on the final medal-play day of the 2017-’18 season. And that’s something to be proud of.
   The Golf Channel will be airing the NCAA Championship beginning Monday. If you’re looking for some reality TV that really packs some drama, find it on your TV.

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