Sally Watson level par with four holes to complete second rouned

Southern Cal go seven shots clear in

NCAA women's championship

WILMINGTON, North Carolina -- Southern California shot even-par 288 to extend its lead to seven over Alabama in the lightning-delayed NCAA women's golf championships Wednesday.
Play in the afternoon was halted twice by lightning and later stopped by heavy rain with 27 golfers on the course.
They included Stanford University's Scottish Curtis Cup player Sally Watson who still has four holes of her second to complete. Sally was one over after a first-round 73 but, starting at the 10th in Round 2, she birdied the short 16th, bogeyed the 17th and birdied the long 18th to be one under par for the day when she resumes with the sixth, seventh, eighth and ninth to play.
The second round will be completed Thursday morning before the third round begins at the Country Club of Landfall.
Yorkshire's Jodi Ewart (New Mexico), who played for GB&I in the 2008 Curtis Cup match over the Old Course but is turning professional before next month's contest at Essex County Club, has completed the first two rounds in level par with scores of 73 and 71.
The Pac-10 is dominating the competition. Six teams from the conference are in the field, and four are in the top six in the standings. Arizona, in sixth place, shot the only under-par round Wednesday with a 2-under 286.
Arizona State freshman Jennifer Johnson shot 2-under-par 70 to take a one-shot lead over USC's Jennifer Song in the individual competition. Johnson, at 7-under 137 for two rounds, had four birdies and one bogey on her first 10 holes. She parred the next seven holes before bogeying her final hole, the par-4 ninth.
Song overcame a double bogey on the seventh hole to shoot 71.
Four golfers, including first-round co-leader Maude-Aimee LeBlanc of Purdue, trail Johnson by three shots.
Southern Cal is trying for its third NCAA title. In each of its previous championships, 2003 and 2008, USC was the wire-to-wire winner.
Purdue is in third place, eight shots back. Top-ranked UCLA is 10 shots behind, followed by defending champion Arizona State (11 shots) and Arizona (12).
The 72-hole tournament at the 6,368-yard Pete Dye course is scheduled to end Friday.

SECOND-ROUND LEADERBOARD
Completed 36 hole totals only
Par 144 (2x72)
Jennifer Johnson (Arizona State) 67 70 137
Jennifer Song (Southern California) 67 71 138
Caroline Hedwall (Oklahoma State) 70 70 140
Maude-Aimee LeBlanc (Purdue) 67 73 140
Margarita Ramos (Arizona) 71 69 140
Cyna Rodriguez (Southern California) 68 72 140
Numa Gulyanamitta (Purdue) 73 69 142
Rhea Nair (Alabama) 71 71 142
Cydney Clanton (Auburn) 72 71 143
Megan McChrystal (LSU) 72 71 143
Nicole Agnello (Virginia) 74 70 144
Jodi Ewart (New Mexico) 73 71 144
Cheyenne Hickle (Oregon) 71 73 144
Kimberly Kim (Denver) 73 71 144
Brooke Pancake (Alabama) 70 74 144
Candace Schepperle (Auburn) 73 71 144
Brittany Altomare (Virginia) 70 75 145
Jennifer Kirby (Alabama) 75 70 145
Belen Mozo (Southern California) 73 72 145
Marta Silva (Georgia) 72 73 145
Selected totals:
Camilla Lennarth (Alabama) 73 73 146
Laura Gonzalez (Purdue) 70 77 147
Giulia Molinaro (Arizona State) 73 76 149
Carlota Ciganda (Arizona State) 76 75 151
Madison Pressel (Texas) 77 75 152
Benedicte Toumpsin (South Carolina) 77 75 152
Nathalie Mansson (Tennessee) 73 80 153