Mississippi State
NCAA Central Regional
MSU Women's Golf Books Return Trip To NCAA Championships
May 11, 2014 | Women's Golf
STILLWATER, Okla.– For the second consecutive season, the Mississippi State women's golf team is heading to the NCAA Championships.
The Bulldogs tied their finish from a season ago by placing in third-place at 29-over-par 893 at the NCAA Central Regional at Karsten Creek Golf Club. MSU battled the windy conditions to fire the second-lowest score of the final round at 9-over-par 297 on Saturday, including a 3-under-par with eight birdies on the back-nine to secure its place in the Tulsa, Okla., championships on May 20-23.
“What a team! I am so impressed with the resilience and patience they showed this week,” head coach Ginger Brown-Lemm said. “This course was the most difficult we played all year, in windy conditions as well. We are proud to go to back-to-back National Championships, and we have set the bar high for the future Bulldogs to chase. Now, back to work in preparations for Tulsa.”
Posting the best round of the day at 2-under-par 70, All-SEC performer Ally McDonald turned in a 1-under-par 215 final score to earn fourth place at the event. McDonald led the Bulldogs surge up the leaderboard with three consecutive birdies on holes 13, 14 and 15 to claim her fifth top-5 scorecard of the campaign.
The Fulton, Miss., native McDonald showed great perseverance to bounce back from her bogey on hole three to notch a birdie-par-birdie stretch en route to shooting her lowest round and tallying 11 total birdies at the regional.
Jessica Peng and Rica Tse each owned 3-over-par 75 third round scores to narrowly miss the top-25 by one shot at 9-over-par 225. The All-Freshman team selection Peng made a 7-shot-turnaround from her first nine holes to her back nine holes, including a birdie on the 18th to go along with her eagle and birdie on the hole from her earlier rounds.
Tse also made an impressive turnaround on her back-9 by improving by five shots to shoot a 1-under-par with a birdie on her last nine holes.
Freshman Ji Eun Baik recorded three birdies in her 5-over-par 77 final round to end the event in the top-50 at 229. Baik recovered from her bogey on hole 10 to register a par-birdie-par-birdie sequence to better her front-nine score by three shots on the back-nine.
MSU's only senior Mary Langdon Gallagher moved up into a tie-for-second in school history with 116 career rounds played. Gallagher fired consecutive birdies on holes 8 and 9 to post a 232 tournament score.
Brown-Lemm moves on to the NCAA Championships in Tulsa, Okla., at Tulsa Country Club on May 20-23 to compete against 19 other teams for the national championship.
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NCAA Central Regional
Final Round – May 10, 2014
TEAM RESULTS
1. No. 3 UCLA (299-289-287=875, +11); 2. No. 9 Alabama (295-297-300=892, +28) 3. No. 33 MSU (302-294-297=893, +29); 4. No. 35 California (295-294-305=894, +30); T5. No. 25 Ohio State (305-288-306=899, +35); T5. No. 40 Kansas (309-290-300=899, +35); 7. No. 10 Arizona (306-289-306=901, +37); T8. No. 21 Florida (296-296-310=902, +38); T8. No. 16 Oklahoma State (298-298-306=902, +38); 10. No. 39 Kent State (296-298-309=903, +39); T11. Minnesota (299-304-301=904, +40); T11 No. 4 Arkansas (309-295-300=904, +40); 13. Harvard (308-297-306=911, +47); 14. No. 22 North Carolina (302-301-313=916, +52); 15. No. 46 UNLV (307-307-303=917, +53); 16. Colorado (306-302-319=927, +63); T17. No. 28 Miami (318-297-315=930, +66) T17. SMU (315-303-312=930, +66) 19. No. 45 Texas (309-298-324=931, +67); 20. No. 15 LSU (309-313-314=936, +72); 21. Lamar (318-307-319=944, +80); 22. Wichita State (303-322-320=945, +81); 23. Long Island (337-329-333=999, +135): 24. Siena College (334-342-339=1015, +151)
MSU INDIVIDUAL RESULTS
4. Ally McDonald 73-72-70=215, -1
T29. Jessica Peng 78-72-75=225, +9
T29. Rica Tse 76-74-75=225, +9
T45. Ji Eun Baik 76-76-77=229, +13
T60. Mary Langdon Gallagher 77-76-79=232, +16
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