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Sunday, October 22, 2006

AMERICAN COLLEGE NEWS

TRIPLE BOGEY AT 17TH COSTS JODI
EWART TOP-10 CALIFORNIA FINISH

Yorkshire’s Jodi Ewart tumbled out of the top 10 with a triple bogey 6 at the short 17th in her final round at the Stanford Fall Intercollegiate women’s tournament at Stanford, California on a sunny Sunday when the temperatures were up in the high 70s-low 80s.
Jodi, a freshman student at New Mexico University and already No 4 in the Golfstat Cup rankings, entered the third round in joint fifth place after scores of 69 and 70 but she crashed to a 77 (36-41) for a three-over-par total of 216 over the 5,985yd, par-71 course over which Tiger Woods and Mhairi McKay used to play when they were Stanford University students a decade or so ago.
Miss Ewart, from Catterick, bogeyed the third, ninth, 10th, and 12th before her disaster at the 17th. After finding birdies easy to come by through the first two rounds – she had four in the first and five in the second - Jodi could muster only one on Sunday, at the fifth.
She finished the tournament, which had many of the leading female college players in the field, in joint 13th place.
Stacy Lewis (Arkansas) birdied the 16th, 17th and 18th to finish with a 69 and a six-under-par total of 207. That was matched only by Alison Walshe (Arizona), who birdied the 16th and parred the last two, also for a 69.
It was not immediately clear if there would be a play-off between the two to settle the individual winner.
Spaniard Adriana Zwanck (Arizona) tied for third place with home-course player Lauren Todd (Stanford) on 208, one behind the leading pair.
Vanderbilt (855) won the team title by five shots from Arizona with Georgia (862) third and Stanford (863) fourth.
New Mexico (884) came joint eighth in a field of 15 colleges.

LEADING INDIVIDUALS
207 Stacy Lewis (Arksansas) 71 67 69, Alison Walshe (Arizona) 67 71 69.
208 Lauren Todd (Stanford) 70 68 70, Adriana Zwanck (Arizona) 68 71 69.
Other score:
216 Jodi Ewart (New Mexico) 69 70 77.
LEADING TEAM TOTALS
855 Vanderbilt.
860 Arizona.
862 Georgia.
863 Stanford.
Other score:
884 New Mexico (jt 8th of 15).