Sally Watson joint 10th after good first round

Joint 4th Jodi Ewart is leading

British/Irish player in Arizona

Yorkshire's Jodi Ewart, who will turn pro in a few months after completing four years at the University of New Mexico, finished the leading British/Irish student in this week's Arizona Wildcat Invitational women's college tournament over the Arizona National Golf Club course (par-71, 6166yd).

Jodi, pictured right, had two rounds of 72 to finish joint fourth on 144 behind the winner, Sweden's Caroline Hedwall (Oklahoma Stte) who won by five shots with two great rounds of 70 and 66 for six-under-par 136.

Caroline finished runner-up to Anna Nordqvist in the Ladies British open amateur championship at North Berwick two years ago.

South Queensferry's Sally Watson, a freshman student at Stanford University, California and a member of the GB&I short leet for the June Curtis Cup match (Jodi withdrew a week or two ago), finished joint 10th after sharing fourth place with a first-round 71.

The Scot had a 75 in the second and last round for 146.

Ellie Givens (Denver University) from Darlington finished joint 17th on 149 with scores of 73 and 76.

Ellie's Irish team-mate, Sarah Faller, from Galway had scores of 79 and 73 for 152 and a share of 34th place.

Former Ladies British open amateur stroke play champion Roseanne Niven (California Berkeley University) from Crieff scored 80 and 79 for 159 and joint 63rd place in a quality field of 93 players.

Arizona State (570) won the team title ahead of Arizona (588) with Stanford (595) third and California-Berkeley (599) fifth. New Mexico (610) came sixth.

LEADING FINAL TOTALS

Individuals

Par 142 (2x71) 6166yd

136 Caroline Hedwall (Oklahoma State) 70 66.

141 Juliana Murcia (Murcia State) 74 67, Alison Whitaker (Duke) 69 72.

Selected scores:

144 Jodi Ewart (New Mexico) 72 72 (jt 4th).

145 Carlota Ciganda (Arizona State) 71 74 (jt 7th).

146 Sally Watson (Stanford) 71 75 (jt 10th).

149 Ellie Givens (Denver) 73 76 (jt 17th).

152 Sarah Faller (Denver) 79 73 (jt 34th).

159 Roseanne Niven (California) 80 79 (jt 63rd).

Teams

570 Arizona State. 588 Arizona. 595 Stanford. 596 California. 599 Duke. 601 New Mexico. 602 Pepperdine. 605 Auburn. 607 Denver. 609 Oklahoma State. 616 Tennessee. A total of 16 teams took part.

Alyssa and Megan down the Texas field

Two freshmen English students at Newman University, Wichita in Kansas, Alyssa Balding from Northumberland and Megan Birdsey from Bedfordshire finished down the field in the Lady Rattler Round-up 18-hole college tournament at San Antonio, Texas.

Over a par-71 course of 5,810yd, Alyssa finished joint 43rd with a score of 87 while Megan tied for 50th place with a round of 90.

The event was jointly won by Melanie Thom (Tarleton State) and Whitney McAteer (Northeastern State) who both returned two-over-par 73s.