Women’s Golf Makes Comeback at LSU

Women’s Golf Makes Comeback at LSU

3/4/2006

BATON ROUGE–Vanderbilt’s women’s golf team roared back after a sluggish opening round to post  a four-over par 292  and jumped from seventh to fourth place at the LSU/Cleveland Classic in the process. The Commodores are two shots behind third place Virginia and 13 off Auburn’s leading pace of 10-over par.

Leading the charge once again was Jacqui Concolino, who posted an outstanding four-under par 68.  In the process, the freshman bounced all the way from 17th position to second with one round remaining.  Concolino birdied the par-four second and par-five sixth before suffering her lone bogey of the day on No. 7.  She bounced back with a birdie on the fourteenth and closed with birdies on 17 and 18.  She is one-under over 36 holes and trails leader LSU’s Melissa Eaton, who fired a 66 Saturday, by four shots heading into Sunday’s finale.

“Jacqui did a very good job of staying patient after missing some other birdie opportunities on the front side,” said Coach Martha Richards Freitag. “Patience was the key to her round and because she stayed on task she put herself in position to go for another win tomorrow.”

Freitag, who rejoined the team today after a bout with the flu, liked her team’s performance.

“We played much better today,” she said. “It was windy early in our round and it didn’t calm down until the last five or six holes for us. Kristen played very well, she hit a lot of good shots and Chris looked like she was going to put a very low number on the board until she had a little trouble in the middle of her round. We are in a good position to place in the top three of this event and with the explosiveness of our team; it is even possible that we could make it very interesting.”

Commodore junior Chris Brady, the tournament’s defending champion, also improved two strokes from Friday with a 74 today.  Brady had a streaky tour with three consecutive birdies at 4-5-6 before bogeying five of six holes from the eighth to the thirteenth.  She tacked on a birdie at 15 to end up two-over on the day.

Kristen Svicarovich had a fine 73.  She bogeyed her first two holes on the LSU University Club’s Cleveland Course, then played the next 16 one-under par.

Freshman Amber Lundskog came in with a 77 and Liebelei Lawrence added a non-counting 82.

Complete results can be found on golfstat.com