NEWS FROM THE US WOMEN'S COLLEGE CIRCUIT

Portia pleases with a joint

third and team-title win

Portia Abbot (Jacksonville State University, Alabama), from Kingsdown, Wiltshire, finished a creditable joint third in a field of 79 for the Samford University Intercollegiate women's tournament at Limestone Springs Golf Club, Oneonta in Alabama this week.
Senior (final year) student Portia, pictured above, had rounds of 77 and 72 for 149, only three shots behind the two-stroke winner, Katelyn Stanler (Samford) with 71 and 75.
Portia's compatriot and freshman team-mate, Laura Cutler from Essex came joint 27th on 149 with scores of 85 and 74. Well done, Laura for outscoring the winner with that nine-shot final-round improvement!
Shirley Harvey (South Alabama) from Belfast had scores of 79 and 77 for a share of 16th place on 156.
Andrew Downer (Murray State) from Bramley, Surrey came joint 48th with scores of 84 and 80 for 164.
Jacksonville State University players filled three of the top four places and, not surprisingly, they won the team event with a total of 599, 14 shots ahead of the host university, Samford with Murray State (620) third and South Alabama (621) fourth in a field of 15 teams.

ROSEANNE NIVEN JOINT NINTH v SAN JOSE STATE
British women's open amateur stroke-play champion Roseanne Niven (California-Berkeley) from Crieff finished joint ninth individually in the San Jose State v California-Berkeley match over the Metropolitan Golf Links, Oakland in California.
San Jose State won 295 to 308.
Roseanne had a round of 80 over the par-72, 6069yd course.
Erica Moston (San Jose State) top-scored with a two-under-par 70.

JACQUELINE SNEDDON jt 3rd IN DESERT CLASSIC
Jacqueline Sneddon (Grand Canyon University, Arizona) finished joint third of 28 in a one-round event, the Dutch Desert Classic, over a 5,824yd,par-072 course at the quaintly-named Sundance Golf Club, Buckeye in Arizona.

Jacqueline, from Meigle, had halves of 37 and 42 in compiling a 79, compared with winner and team-mate Jennifer Lutz's 36-39 for a 75 and runner-up Torie Ives (Wisconsin-Eau Claire) 35-43 for a 78.

Grand Canyon (321) won the team title ahead of Wisconsin-Eau Claire (331).

GEMMA HARDIE 18th IN BIG CALIFORNIA FIELD

Gemma Hardie (Central Arkansas), a freshman student from Scunthorpe, scored 84, 84 and 79 for a total of 247 and a share of 18th place in a field of 101 players at the Hiddenbrooke Intercollegiate women's tournament over a par-72, 6,005yd course at Hiddenbrooke Golf Club, Vallejo in California.

Winner by four shots with scores of 74, 82 and 73 for 229 was Central Arkansas team-mate Nicole Forshner.

Central Arkansas (947) won the team event by 14 sxhots from Northern Arizona with Lamar (966) third in an 18-team field.