The Cowgirl golf team ended the second round of the Kiawah Island Classic in 22nd place after finishing on Monday with a team score of 327 (+39) to bring their total team score to 639 (+63).
Wyoming had to adjust to the Scottish-American style course after each golfer finished the second round with more strokes than the first. No one on the team finished under par or par for the course for either rounds of the classic; senior Stacy Blunt came the closest finishing nine over.
Blunt led the Cowgirls with a score of 153 (+9) after playing two rounds on the Oak Point Course in Kiawah Island, S.C. Blunt finished the first round with a score card of 77 (+5) and the second round with a score card of 76 (+4), she ended both days in first place among the Cowgirls and 38th place within the classic.
“Stacey had great course management today,” said head coach Josey Stender, “I’m very pleased with her play.”
Freshman Taylor Dorans finished a few strokes shy of Blunt, turning in a scorecard of 161 (+17). Dorans ended the first round with 78 (+6) and the second round with 83 (+11) to position her in 108th place.
Finishing one stroke behind Dorans, senior Emily Wood shot 78 in the first round and 84 in the second for a combined score of 162 and 18 over par. Woods ended Monday’s round in 110th place.
Junior Samantha Stancato finished in fourth place within the Cowgirls. Stancato shot 163 (+19) after concluding the first round with 79 (+7) and 84 (+12), ending the second round in 114th place.
Wyoming competed against 35 other universities at the classic. No. 37 Kent State finished the first two rounds of the tournament in first place with a team score of 594 (+18) followed by High Point at 599 (+18) and Jacksonville State at 601 (+25).
North Carolina-Greensboro’s Sammie Buchanan finished the two-rounds as the individual leader and the only golfer to finish under par with a scorecard of 142 (-2) and St. John’s Anna Kim who shot 144 and was par for the course. Boston College’s Katie Joo finished one stroke behind Kim with a two-round score of 145 (+1).
“It was a mixed bag of what hurt us individually today, one thing is adjusting to the different style of greens here,” Stender said. “We just need to polish some things up and we can make some more progress tomorrow.”
The Cowgirls tee-off on Monday March 17 in St. George, Utah, to compete in the BYU Entrada Classic.
