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Duke Leads By 14 Strokes At ACC Women's Golf Championship
4/17/2004 1:00:00 AM | Women's Golf
April 17, 2004
CLEMMONS, N.C.- In search of its ninth-straight ACC Championship, the top-ranked Duke women's golf team increased its lead to 14 strokes on day two and own a two-day total of 565 at the Par 71, 6,348-yard Salem Glen Country Club in Clemmons, N.C.
The Blue Devils lead North Carolina (579), Wake Forest (582), Florida State (593), North Carolina State (596), Virginia (611) and Maryland (614) with one round remaining.
Continuing to lead the Blue Devils is freshman Brittany Lang, who is one shot off leader, Meaghan Francella of North Carolina. Lang, a native of McKinney, Texas, carded a two-under-par total on Saturday and sits at 136, while Francella also posted a 69 on day two and owns a two-day total of 135.
Lang collected one of only two eagles over the first two rounds of the championship on Saturday as she had a 40-yard chip-in on the par-five fourth hole. It marked the second-straight day Lang was four-under-par at one point during the front nine.
Blue Devil senior Virada Nirapathpongporn remained in the top-five as the Bangkok, Thailand, product registered a one-over-par 72 and owns a 142 for the tournament. Nirapathpongporn led Duke with four birdies on the day, but a triple-bogey on the par-four hole 11 countered her birdies.
Leigh Anne Hardin, a senior from Martinsville, Ind., collected a 72 and is seventh (143), while Liz Janangelo posted her second straight round of 73 and is tied for eighth.
Freshman Anna Grzebien struggled on day two with a 78 and is tied for 15th (149). Duke will tee off on Sunday with North Carolina and Florida State beginning at 9:10 a.m.
"Tomorrow we are going to have good conditions and I hope we will go out there and just play," said Duke Head Coach Dan Brooks. "They just need to enjoy themselves, be patient and don't like all the incredible expectations get to them. We should be fine if we do all of those things."
1 Duke 279 286 565 -3
2 North Carolina, U of 285 294 579 +11
3 Wake Forest 290 292 582 +14
4 Florida State Univ. 293 300 593 +25
5 North Carolina State 303 293 596 +28
6 University of Virginia 307 304 611 +43
7 Maryland, U. of 306 308 614 +46
v1 1 Meaghan Francella North Carolina, U of 66 69 135 -7
2 2 Brittany Lang Duke 67 69 136 -6
T10 3 Katie Quinney Florida State Univ. 72 67 139 -3
3 4 Ashley Prange North Carolina, U of 69 71 140 -2
T6 T5 Christine Hallstrom Wake Forest 71 71 142 E
T4 T5 Virada Nirapathpongporn Duke 70 72 142 E
T6 7 Leigh Anne Hardin Duke 71 72 143 +1
T4 T8 Ashley Hoagland Wake Forest 70 76 146 +4
T13 T8 Elizabeth Janangelo Duke 73 73 146 +4
T10 T8 Deborah Means Wake Forest 72 74 146 +4
T6 T8 Leah Wigger University of Virginia 71 75 146 +4
T10 T12 Caroline Larsson Florida State Univ. 72 76 148 +6
T23 T12 Courtney Pomeranz North Carolina State 77 71 148 +6
T23 T12 Briana Vega North Carolina State 77 71 148 +6
T13 T15 Colby Cobb North Carolina State 73 76 149 +7
T13 T15 Alison Curdt Florida State Univ. 73 76 149 +7
T6 T15 Anna Grzebien Duke 71 78 149 +7
19 18 Rachel Smith University of Virginia 75 75 150 +8
T30 T19 Jessica Castle Wake Forest 80 71 151 +9
T16 T19 Katie Redeker Maryland, U. of 74 77 151 +9
T20 T21 Beth Marushak North Carolina, U of 76 76 152 +10
T16 T21 Katie Miller North Carolina, U of 74 78 152 +10
T27 T23 Ashlee Dean North Carolina State 78 75 153 +11
T16 T23 Marie Harper Maryland, U. of 74 79 153 +11
T23 T25 Romi Irons North Carolina, U of 77 78 155 +13
T30 T25 Kristen McCurdy Maryland, U. of 80 75 155 +13
T27 T25 Lindsay Robinson University of Virginia 78 77 155 +13
T20 28 Lorraine Ballerano North Carolina State 76 80 156 +14
T20 29 Jaclyn Burch Florida State Univ. 76 81 157 +15
32 30 Jessica Reno Maryland, U. of 81 77 158 +16
T23 T31 Mandy Goins Wake Forest 77 82 159 +17
T27 T31 Katie Stepanek Maryland, U. of 78 81 159 +17
34 33 Sally Shonk University of Virginia 85 77 162 +20
33 34 Kira Mayo University of Virginia 83 85 168 +26
35 35 Tyler Johnson Florida State Univ. 87 84 171 +29
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