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Saturday, May 18, 2019

Belac sparks surge by Duke as bad weather suspends play in NCAA Championship


   The NCAA Championship was pretty fortunate in the weather department with minimal delays through six men’s and four women’s regional tournaments – until Saturday.
   The threat of severe weather halted play in the second round of the women’s NCAA Championship at The Blessings Golf Club in Fayetteville, Ark. Saturday and the players were never able to get back on the golf course when play was suspended for the day.
   Duke’s Ana Belac, a junior from Slovenia, was one of the few top individual contenders to complete her second round and she fired a 4-under-par 69 over the 6,397-yard, par-73 Blessings layout after opening with a 3-over 76 Friday to get into the clubhouse with a 1-under 145 total.
   That left Belac in a tie for third on a leaderboard populated by players with varying parts of their rounds complete or, in some cases, having never teed off. Looks like they’re planning to get back on the golf course at 10 a.m. CDT. That doesn’t seem like enough time to complete the second round and turn around and play the scheduled third round, but we’ll see.
   Belac led the way for a surge by the Blue Devils, No. 3 in the latest Golfstat rankings, to the top of the team leaderboard. Duke had carded a 13-over 305 in Friday’s opening round and was 11-under for Saturday’s second round when play was halted, leaving it a 2-over, seven shots clear of top-ranked Southern California, the Pac-12 champion.
   The Trojans, who had opened with a 14-over 306 Friday, also had it going when play was halted, going 5-under to that point, leaving them at 9-over. No. 2 Texas, which had shared the lead with No. 10 Arkansas after each team posted a 10-over 302 in Friday’s opening, was 1-over for Saturday’s second round and 11-over, two shots behind Southern Cal.
   Reigning national champion Arizona, ranked fourth, was another shot behind Texas in fourth place at 12-over as the Wildcats were even-par for their round. Which means the top four teams in the latest Golfstat rankings were occupying the top four spots in the team standings.
    Arizona was led by Bianca Pangdanganan, a senior from the Philippines who was even-par through 16 holes, which enabled her to hang on to her lead in the individual standings at 4-under. Pangdanganan, one of the heroes of the Wildcats’ run to the national championship a year ago, had grabbed a three-shot lead in the individual standings with her opening round of 4-under 69.
   Arkansas, behind its senior leader Maria Fassi of Mexico and the No. 3 player in the Women’s WAGR, was 3-over for the day, which, combined with its opening round of 10-over 302, left the Razorbacks a shot behind Arizona in fifth at 13-over.
   Fassi, the reigning Annika Award winner playing on her home course at The Blessings, was 2-under for her round through 11 holes after opening with a 1-under 72 Friday. That left her at 3-under, a shot behind Pangdanganan.
   Three more of the Pac-12 rivals of Southern Cal and Arizona accounted for the next three spots in the team standings.
   No. 7 Stanford, which had opened with a 12-over 304, was 2-over for Saturday’s second round, leaving the Cardinal in sixth place at 14-over. No. 14 Arizona State and No. 18 Washington never got out of the starting gate Saturday. Their opening rounds of 18-over 310 and 19-over 311, respectively, left them in eighth and ninth places.
   Arkansas’ Southeastern Conference rival Auburn, ranked 13th, was 1-under for its round after opening with a 21-over 313 and shared ninth place with No. 22 Purdue, a perennial Big Ten power, at 20-over. The Boilermakers, who opened with a 20-over 312 Friday, never got started Saturday.
   The field of 24 teams was scheduled to be cut to 15 teams following Sunday’s third round with the top eight teams following Monday’s scheduled fourth round qualifying for match play. Stroke play was cut to 54 holes two years ago in dreadful weather at Rich Harvest Farms in Sugar Grove, Ill. Pretty sure all 24 teams were allowed to complete 54 holes when stroke play was shortened to three rounds.
   Belac wasn’t the only Duke golfer to get it going Saturday.
   Miranda Wang, a redshirt sophomore from China, was 2-under for her round through 16 holes, which left her tied with Stanford’s Albane Valenzuela, a junior from Switzerland and No. 8 in the Women’s WAGR, at even-par. Wang had opened with a 2-over 75 Friday.
   Jaravee Boonchant, a sophomore from Thailand and No. 25 in the Women’s WAGR, was 2-under through 17 holes, which left her in a group of six players tied for ninth at 1-over. Boonchant had opened with a 3-over 76 Friday.
   Also making a big move for Duke was Gina Kim, a freshman from Chapel Hill, N.C. who, like Belac, completed her round, carding a 3-under 70. Kim had opened with a 78, so her solid round Saturday left her at 2-over 146 and among the group tied for 15th.
   Virginia Elena Carta, a senior from Italy, had struggled to an 82 in the opening round, but bounced back with a 2-under 71 Saturday. Carta’s 153 total left her among a large group of players tied for 58th at 7-over. Carta captured the NCAA individual title as a freshman in 2016 at Eugene Country Club.
   Two players with some golf to play in the second round joined Duke’s Belac in a tie for third at 1-under.
   Fassi’s teammate Kaylee Benton, a senior from Buckeye, Ariz., had opened with a 74 and was 2-under through 12 holes of her round Saturday. Benton took eventual champion Kristen Gillman to the 19th hole before falling in the semifinals of the U.S. Women’s Amateur last summer at The Golf Club of Tennessee.
   Florida’s Sierra Brooks, a junior from Orlando, Fla. and No. 24 in the Women’s WAGR, was 3-under through 11 holes after opening with a 2-over 75 Friday. Brooks was the runnerup in the 2015 U.S. Women’s Amateur at Portland Golf Club.
   Stanford’s Valenzuela, who played four rounds after making the cut at this spring’s ANA Inspiration, the LPGA’s first major championship, had opened with a 1-over 74 and was 1-under through 12 holes to join Duke’s Wang in a tie for seventh at even-par.
   Two of the other five players who joined Duke’s Boonchant in the tie for ninth at 1-over got out on the course Saturday.
   Bangdanganan’s teammate at Arizona, Haley Moore, a senior from Escondido, Calif., was 2-over through 17 holes after opening with a 1-under 72 Friday. Auburn’s Kaleigh Telfer, a sophomore from South Africa, was 2-under through 11 holes after opening with a 3-over 76.
   Three other players who were at 1-over – Purdue’s Inez Wanamarta, a sophomore from Indonesia, Washington’s Sarah Rhee, a senior home girl from Seattle, and Arizona State’s Allesandra Fanali, a freshman from Italy – never got their second rounds started.

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