NEWS FROM THE NCAA'S DIVISION 1 WOMEN'S REGIONAL CHAMPIONSHIPS

DIVISION 1 CENTRAL at Ohio State University's Scarlet Course.
Par 72. Yardage 6,264

Raffi Dyer (Oregon) from Hayling Island shot a 78 to be T42 in a top-class field of 126.
Four of the US Curtis Cup team for Nairn next month are playing here.
Lisa McCloskey (Southern California) shot a 73 to be T8, three shots behind leader Marina Alex (Vanderbilt) and two behind joint second-placed Paula Reto (Purdue) and Marina Salinas (Florida State).
Emily Tubert (Arkansas) is T19 on 75.
Erica Popson (Tennessee) is T78 on 81.
Southern Cal (298) lead the team event by one shot from Georgia with Purdue a close up third of 24 on 301.

DIVISION 1 WEST at Colorado National Golf Club.
Par 72. Yardage 6,575

England's Hayley Davis (Baylor) continued the good form of her rookie season while Scotland's Sally Watson (Stanford) and Rachael Watton (Denver) had contrasting fortunes on the opening day.
Sydney Burlison (Stanford) leads with a five-under-67 - two shots ahead of Hayley Davis who started at the 10th with a string of birdies: at the 10th, 12th and 17th before she bogeyed the 16th and 17th to be one under par for her first nine. Hayley picked up steam again with birdies at the fourth and sixth for a 69.
US Curtis Cup team selection Austin Ernst (Louisiana State) is on the same 71 mark - tied fourth - as Sally Watson who birdied the first, 10th, 13th, 16th and 17th in halves of 39-32.
Sally did very well to keep her cool after an "iffy" start in which she had a double bogey 7 at the long second and dropped single shots at the short fifth and sixth. She came roaring home in four-under 32.
Two more US Curtis Cuppers for Nairn - Tiffany Lua (UCLA) and Amy Anderson (North Dakota State) - in this star-studded field. Tiffany T32 with a 74, Amy T42 with a 75.
Rookie Rachael Watton is T54 with a 76. The Mortonhall player started well enough with birdies at the second and third but then bogeyed five out of six holes in a row between the fourth and ninth to be out in four-over 40.
Rachael got back on track with a birdie at the 10th to come home in par 36.
Sally Watson's Stanford lead the team event here with 287, but only a shot ahead of North Carolina and three in front of UCLA. Baylor (300) are T120 while Denver (304) at T17 in a field of 24 teams.

DIVISION 1 EAST at Penn State Univesity's Blue Course.
Par 72. Yardage 6,253

Aberdeen-born Gemma Dryburgh (Tulane) is in joint sixth place with a par-matching 72, five shots behind leader Katerina Ruzickova (Texas A and M) and four adrift of second-placed Juliet Vongphoumy (Maryland). There is a field of 124 players, a fair number of them among the best in America's college golfers.
Gemma started at the 10th and birdied it, followed by another birdie at the 11th. She parred the rest to reach her turn in 34. The Scot lost a bit of sparkle on her second nine with bogeys at the short fourth and seventh but, all in all, a sound start, which placed her ahead of the three Curtis Cup selections, one from GB and I, two from the US team, for Nairn next month.
Lindy Duncan (Duke) is T17 after a 73, Stephanie Meadow (Alabama) T24 on 74 and Brooke Pancake (Alabama) T39 on 75.
GB and I player Stephanie dropped three of her shots at short holes - the eighth, 14th and 17th. She also bogeyed the seventh. On the credit side, the Royal Portrush GC member birdied the long ninth and 15th.
Her Alabama team-mate, Brooke Pancake, who will be on the opposite side at Nairn, had a 75.
Kirsty Rands from Surrey, a senior-year student at Augusta State, is T89 after a 79.
South Carolina (288) lead the team event from Alabama (292) with Florida (294) third in a field of 24.