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Monday, February 19, 2007


ROSEANNE JOINT 51ST ON AMERICAN
COLLEGE DEBUT IN CALIFORNIA

Scottish Under-18 girls’ champion Roseanne Niven, who enrolled at the University of California Berkeley just last month, finished joint 51st in a field of 80 players on her debut on the American women’s college golf circuit.
The tournament was the Northop Grumman Regional Challenge over a 5,912, par-71 course at Paolos Verdes Golf Club, California and was contested by a high-class field, including many Europeans.
Roseanne, who had two of the California team behind her in the final placings, scored 79, 79 and 80 for a 25-over-par total of 238 – the same total as Scotland international Gemma Webster from Glasgow, a student at Ohio State University.
Gemma had scores of 81, 80 and 77.
Irish cap Tara Delaney and her sister Karen, both students at Kent State University, finished joint 26th and 64th respectively. Tara scored 77, 77 and 74 for 228 while Karen had rounds of 84, 79 and 80 for 243.
Another Irish player, Danielle McVeigh (Texas A&M) finished joint 34th on 231 with scores of 80, 80 and 71.
British women’s and girls’ open champion Belen Mozo from Spain, now a student at the University of Southern California, came joint eighth on 221.
The title was won by Misun Cho (Pepperdine) with a five-over-par total of 218.
Pepperdine also won the team title with a total of 882 – nine shots ahead of Arizona State.
LEADING INDIVIDUAL TOTALS
218 Misun Cho (Pepperdine) 76 73 69.
219 Azahara Munoz (Arizona State) 72 76 71, Christa Spedding (Texas A&M) 71 75 73, Jayvie Agojo (Pepperdine) 69 73 77, Pernilla Lindberg (Oklahoma State) 78 73 69, Sandra Gal (Florida) 76 74 69.
220 Adriana Zwanck (Arizona) 70 76 74.
Other totals:
221 Belen Mozo (Southern Californai) 75 72 74.
223 Anna Nordqvist (Arizona State) 77 74 72.
224 Caroline Westrup (Florida State) 79 79 66.
228 Tara Delaney (Kent State) 77 77 74.
231 Dewi Schreefel (Southern California) 76 78 77, Danielle McVeigh (Texas A&M) 80 80 71.
238 Gemma Webster (Ohio State) 81 80 77, Roseanne Niven (California) 79 79 80.
243 Karen Delaney (kent State) 84 79 80.
LEADING TEAM TOTALS
882 Pepperdine. 891 Arizona State. 901 Florida. 904 Oklahoma State. 907 Arizaona. 908 Southern California, Texas A&M. 915 Stanford.
Other totals:
937 Kent State (12th). 940 Ohio State (13th). 944 California (14th of 15).