University of Oregon
Country Club of Landfall
Hickle Tied for 12th in NCAA Championships Second Round
05/20/10 | Women's Golf
* Incomplete second-round results are available in the PDF LINKS box to the right, and regularly-updated hole-by-hole results from Golfstat.com are available by clicking HERE.
WILMINGTON, N.C. – In the NCAA Championships second round, freshman Cheyenne Hickle paced the No. 28 University of Oregon women's golf team for the second straight day Wednesday in the event hosted at the Country Club of Landfall.
Oregon's afternoon tee times unfortunately coincided with two of the three afternoon thunderstorm delays that prevented six teams from finishing their rounds, so final team and individual results were incomplete.
Among UO players, Hickle tied her third-best career score – a one-over 73 – and improved two places into a tie for 12th place (71-73-144) in the 126-player field.
“For the (wet, windy) conditions, I played fairly well,” Hickle said. “I kept it in the fairway and stayed away from three-putts. I was able to stay focused and tried to be aggressive since I knew nothing would come easy. I felt pretty good at the start, but then it started to rain after the first few holes, so I have to shake it off and adapt.”
She paced UO for the 10th time in her 21 rounds this spring, and has led the team in multiple rounds in a tournament for the fourth time in the last five events.
The Gilbert, Ariz., native started the day on the first tee, and had a birdie on the par-5 fourth and par-4 third holes. She added par scores on 13 holes (#1-3, #5, #7-8, #12-18) and had three bogeys.
“As it got wetter, the course got longer and more uphill,” Hickle said. “There was one hole that I had to pull out a five-iron when yesterday I used a wedge there. Even though I didn't get any birdies on the long holes on the back, I still played them well and tried to be confident. My shots were landing on the green, but just not near the pin, and a few went long which was unexpected.”
Adding in her one-under 71 opening round Tuesday, Hickle is off to her best start scoring-wise among her 11 collegiate tourneys with an even-par 144 – two strokes better than her previous best first two-round start a month ago in the Betsy Rawls Invitational when she shot a pair of one-over 73's.
Juniors Kendra Little and Erica Omlid added scores of 78 Wednesday, sophomore Ashley Edwards followed with an 80, and Hildahl added an 82.
In the unofficial overall standings, Edwards was tied for 92nd (73-80-153), just ahead of Little (109th-t, 79-78-157), Omlid (111th-t, 80-78-158) and Hildahl (119th-t, 79-82-161).
In the overall team standings, No. 4 USC's even-par 288 tied for the second-lowest score of the day, and extended the Trojans' lead (282-288-570) to seven strokes over No. 7 Alabama (second, 289-288-577).
No. 8 Purdue dropped a position to third place (284-294-578), and stood just ahead of No. 1 UCLA (fourth, 288-292-580), No. 5 Arizona State (fifth, 288-293-581) and No. 6 Arizona (sixth, 296-286-582).
The top 10 was rounded out by No. 13 Virginia (seventh, 294-291-585), No. 16 Vanderbilt (eighth-tie, 296-292-588) and No. 23 Florida State (eighth-tie, 12-over), No. 3 Auburn (10th-t, 293-296-589) and No. 25 Oklahoma State (10th-t, 295-294-589).
In its seventh NCAA trip in school history and first since 2000, No. 28 Oregon stood 24th overall with its 35-over score of 611 (302-309).
On the individual leaderboard, Arizona State's Jennifer Johnson was the lone first-day leader to hold the same position in the second round (67-70-137). The other first-round leaders from Tuesday, USC's Jennifer Song and Purdue's Maude-Aimee LeBlanc, followed in second (67-71-138) and third place (67-73-140), respectively, and the latter was tied with three other players at 140.
Regularly-updated hole-by-hole results for the tournament are available each day via the www.GolfStat.com website at the http://golfstatresults.com/public/index.cfm?tournament_id=1637 URL link.
Looking ahead, the second round's remaining players will start at 7:30 a.m. Thursday, and an hour after the round's completion, the third round will begin. Afterward, the tourney concludes with a final round on Friday, with the top teams teeing off in the afternoon.
On Thursday and Friday, video streaming from the 16th, 17th and 18th holes will be available at the www.NCAAsports.com website, along with event information and history.
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