RECORD=BREAKER PIPS SIAN EVANS FOR ATLANTIC SUN INDIVIDUAL TITLE
WE ARE THE CHAMPIONS. East Tennessee State University team ( left to right) Gabriella Wahl, Sian Evans, Lourdes Lopez, Rachel Ingram (Assistant Coach), Stefanie Shelton (Coach), Chloe Garner, Vivienne Chin, Larissa Steinfeldt.
It's been a very good month for English-born students on the US women's college circuit, with three of them winning and others, like East Tennessee State University student Sian Evans (pictured) from Gillingham, performing with distinction.
Sian, runner-up in the Atlantic Sun Championship tournament at Jekyll Island, Georgia, help East Tennessee State win the team title and it took a course record score by Kennesaw State's Ines Lescudier at the Pinke Lakes Course on Wednesday to relegate the former Kent county champion to second place.
The Bucs (East Tennessee State) finished six strokes ahead of defending champion Kennesaw State (886) after beginning the championship by setting the low total for the low opening round and the low first-round total (287).
Lescudier shot a brilliant last-round, six-under-par 66 for a six-under total of 210 (71-73-66) to head a field of 50 players. She was eight undr par for her last 11 holes, including seven consecutive birdies from holes 11 through 17, for an amazing back-nine total of 29 - the best by anyone in the 24-year history of the championship.
Sian Evans, who tied the championship's previous low round of 67 on Monday, finished second with a three-round total of 214 (67-74-73), followed by defending individual champion and ETSU team-mate Gabriella Wahl, whose 215 (71-70-74) placed her third.
ETSU will advance to a yet to be determined location to compete in the NCAA Regionals, and Lescudier will await to hear if she is selected for one of the 18 at-large individual bids.
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