Lui Leads Women’s Golf at UAA Championships

(PALM COAST, Fla.) – The Carnegie Mellon University women's golf team continued play at the University Athletic Association (UAA) Championships on Sunday, March 12 and improved 19 strokes for Saturday's opening round to card a 340. The Tartans finished the 36-hole, two-day event in third after carding a 699 (359-340) on the par-72 Conservatory Course at Hammock Beach Resort in Palm Coast, Florida.
    
New York University won the championship after carding a 665 (344-321) and Washington University fired a two-round score of 675 (339-336) to finish second.

Freshman Yedin Lui (Idaho Falls, Idaho) was the top Tartan with a 36-hole score of 166 placing tied for fifth. Lui carded an 88 on Saturday before entering the clubhouse on Sunday with a 10-stroke improvement carding a 78. Her 78 tied for the second lowest round of the championships. Junior Summer Kitahara (Greenwich, Conn./Rye Country Day) tied for 10th after carding a 175 with rounds of 87 and 88. Lui and Kitahara earned all-tournament honors for their finishes.

Sophomore Carly Jordan (San Juan Capistrano, Calif./St. Margaret's Episcopal School) fired rounds of 94 and 85 to finish with a 179. Freshman Lavonca Davis (Pickerington, Ohio) shot a 184 after recording a score of 89 on Sunday followed by junior Emma Hoskins (Libertyville, Ill.) with a 186. Hoskins shot a 96 in the closing round.
        
Carnegie Mellon had three individuals enter the championships, as junior Isabelle Tseng (Plainsboro, N.J./West Windsor-Plainsboro South) led the trio with a 183 (90-93). Freshman Sanchi Gupta (Cincinnati, Ohio/Ursuline Academy) shot a 188 with back-to-back rounds of 94 while junior Ginger Glass (Hollidaysburg, Pa.) carded a 207 (104-103).

Carnegie Mellon will be back on the links on Monday, March 13 at the TaylorMade-adidas Intercollegiate, hosted by Ohio Wesleyan University. The 36-hole event will be played on the Morgan River Course at the Dataw Island Club in Beaufort, S.C. Tee times are set to begin at 9:00 a.m.