University of Oregon
Holston Hills Country Club
Isagawa Continues Par Roll in SEC-Pac-12 Final Round
10/23/11 | Women's Golf
* Complete final round results are available in the LINKS box to the right.
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. - The No. 12 University of Oregon women's golf team capped one of its most impressive fall campaigns ever with a 12th-place finish Sunday in third- and final-round action of the Mercedes-Benz SEC-Pac-12 Challenge, hosted at the Holston Hills Country Club.
Climbing another sport in the team standings Sunday, the Ducks (301-300-295-896) staked their low round of the tourney, and the sixth-best of the round in the all-star event that featured 11 top-15 ranked teams and six more ranked top 30 nationally.
Overall in the team standings, No. 6 Alabama held onto its second-round lead (284-289-292-865) and won by four strokes over No. 1 UCLA (second, 281-297-291-869). No. 2 Auburn remained in third place (296-286-297-879), and No. 27 Tennessee tied for fourth place (291-292-297-880) with No. 10 USC (298-295-287-880).
On the par-72, 6,447-yard course, junior Cheyenne Hickle (30th-tie, 75-70-76-221) led UO in an event's final standings for the fifth time in her career. The Gilbert, Ariz., also logged her fourth top-30 finish of the campaign in as many events and 11th as a Duck.
"Cheyenne had another solid week for us," Oregon head coach Ria Scott
said. "She is getting so strong mentally and has matured so much both in
her game and demeanor this year."
Freshman Cassy Isagawa (39th-tie, 72-79-72-223) carded UO's low score Sunday with her second par round of the event. Sunday's total marked her ninth round of par or better this season that already ties her for fourth-best all-time for Oregon in a season and seventh career-wise.
The Wailkuku, Hawai'i native posted three birdies Sunday (hole #2, 5, 7), 12 pars (#1, 3, 4, 6, 7-10, 12, 13, 15-17) and three bogeys (#11, 14, 18).
Also carding their best rounds of the tourney Sunday, sophomore Raphaela Dyer (44th-tie, 75-75-74-224) and freshman Cali Hipp (79th-tie, 82-76-73-231) rounded out UO's scoring, and senior Ashley Edwards (107th-tie, 79-82-80-241) also competed in the event.
Other Duck birdie/par counts for Sunday's round follow: Dyer (4/8), Hipp (2/13), Hickle (1/13) and Edwards (-/12).
Similar birdie/par counts for the 54-hole event follow: Dyer (10/27), Hickle (8/34), Isagawa (6/26), Hipp (7/29), Edwards (1/23).
"The freshmen led the way in the final round today," Scott said. "Cassy and Cali stepping it up so early on makes us all excited for the possibilities and their contributions in the coming months and years. Raffi's game is starting to come together again, and I know we all wsh we didn't have to wait almost four months until our next event."
On the individual leaderboard, Stephanie Meadow of Alabama led for the third straight day (68-71-72-211), and won by two strokes over Lauren Stratton of Vanderbilt (68-72-73-213). One stroke back, Kaitlyn Rohrback of Tennessee (71-72-71) and Marta Sanz of Auburn (74-71-69) tied for third place with scores of 214.
Complete hole-by-hole results are available at the www.Golfstat.com website at the http://www.golfstatresults.com/public/index.cfm?tournament_id=2881 URL link, and more event info is available at the host Tennessee athletics website ( www.UTladyvols.com ).
This weekend's event capped an impressive fall slate for the Ducks who posted a 295.8 scoring average – four strokes ahead of last season's cumulative fall-spring mark (299.64) that then set a school record by more than a stroke. In its last event, the Stanford Intercollegiate, UO's four-under tourney score smashed its previous school record by nine strokes.
On the individual front the past six weeks, Isagawa logged the team's second-best tourney score ever (-9), and her pair of four-under season best rounds from the same Stanford event tied UO's sixth-best ever.
Hickle has four scores of par or better, and Hipp and Edwards had two and one, respectively, and Hipp's even-par Stanford tourney score (213) tied UO's 15th-best ever.
Looking ahead, UO has almost four months until its spring opener, the Northrop Grumman Regional Challenge in Palos Verdes, Calif., Feburary 13-15.
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