Feb. 23, 2008

Second Round Results in PDF Format

The No. 13 Wake Forest women's golf team shot a 295 Saturday, shaving six strokes off a first round 301, to rise into fourth place in the SunTrust Lady Gator Invitational in soggy Gainesville, Fla.

Only three of the 15 teams participating recorded better scores Saturday than the Deacs' 15 over par. Wake leaped Georgia State and North Carolina in the second round and landed 11 strokes out of third place.

"We did a little bit better today we still need to do better tomorrow," Wake Forest head coach Dianne Dailey said. "We're just not making enough birdies and we're having a hard time with the greens."

Host Florida held onto the top spot after shooting a 283 (+3). The Gators take a 13-stroke lead into Sunday's final round.

Wake freshman Natalie Sheary remains tied in eleventh place after carding a 73 (+3), one shot behind her first round score. Sheary is six strokes behind Florida's Tiffany Chudy for individual honors.

Deacon junior Nannette Hill matched Sheary's output Saturday with a 73 (+3), but fell two spots into a tie for 23rd. Sheary and Hill led the Deacs in birdies with two apiece.

Wake freshman Allie Bodemann finished with a four-over 74 to land in a tie for 26th while Laura Crawford's five-over 75 rose the senior nine spots into a tie for 39th.

Wake junior Jean Chua recorded a 77 (+7), seven strokes better than her first round output, to finish the scoring for the Deacs.

Senior Jordan Craig, playing as an individual for Wake, is currently tied for 26th after equaling a team-best 73 (+3) for the second round.

The Deacs hold a four-stroke lead over a fifth place Georgia State and a six-stroke lead over sixth place North Carolina heading into Sunday's final round.

"We need to make a lot more birdies, we're not converting birdies," Dailey said. "We need to eliminate the three putts and improve on our short game. We need to be a lot closer to par than 15 over."

Wake's 295 Saturday ties for the third-best total of the 2007-08 season.

Wake is set for a shotgun tee-off at 8:30 a.m. Sunday with North Carolina and Georgia State.

Rain late Friday night and early Saturday morning left the course very wet, according to Dailey. Sunday will be partly cloudy with a high of 77 degrees, according to weather.com.