King rules Lady Bulldogs Invite after first round

FROM KING UNIVERSITY, TENNESSEE WEBSITE
CHARLOTTE, North Carolina – The King University women's golf team continued their hot play this spring by firing a 317 in the first round of the Wingate Lady Bulldog Invitational. That score lands the Tornado atop the leaderboard, one stroke clear of second place Limestone College going into Tuesday's final round. 
Elizabeth Swallow (third year student from Berkshire) and Nicola Robertson (a freshman from Dunblane) led King and are in second and fourth place, respectively. The field is 90-strong.
Swallow, coming off her first tournament win, carded a 76 in the first round, and sits one stroke behind the leader going into the final round. 
Robertson, a month removed from her first career win, shot 77 in the first round, landing her in fourth place after the first round.
Samantha Taylor  (a sophomore from Newcastle) is also in the top-10, sitting in ninth place after carding a first round score of 79. Cortnee Young and Anna Walker rounded out the Tornado with scores of 85 and 86, respectively.
King are the team leaders with a score of 317, and Limestone is in second at 318. Newberry College is third with a first round score of 321 while South Carolina Beaufort is fourth with a score of 323.
The tournament concludes on Tuesday as King goes for their second tournament victory in three tournaments.

Heidi Baek's par 72 at South Carolina

Elsewhere, Newman's Emily Aird (sophomore from Perth) and Josie Jenkins (junior from London) both shot first-round 81s in the Lions Classic at Hardscrabble Country Club, Fort Smith, Arizona where bad weather forced a suspension of play in the second round on Monday.
In the Briar's Creek Invitational, South Carolina, Heidi Baek (Maryland), a junir from Suffolk, had a par-matching first-round 72.
Alison Knowles (Michigan State), a junior from South Yorkshire, scored an 80 and Jessica Gregory (Maryland), a junior from Sittingbourne), had an 82. Field of 93 players. 
Hannah Robb (Embry Riddle), an Anglo-Scot junior from St Michaels, Fife, had a 75 in the first round of the MSO Ocala Spring Invitational at Ocala, Florida. But she slipped to an 89 in the second.
Heather Munro (Elon), a freshman from Monifieth), had a 75 followed by a 74.
Sophie Olley (Embry Riddle), a senior from Leeds added a 79 to her opening 76; Georgia Price (Florida Gulf Coast), a senior from Bude, tagged a 79 on to a 77 and the Stetson pair of Paige Kemp, an Anglo-Scot freshman from Essex, and Eilidh Watson, a freshman from Dollar, both had 78s in the first round. Paige had a 79 in Round 2 while Eilidh had a second-round 82.
Field of 101 players.
Dolores Brown (McNeese State), a sophomore from Royal Cinque Ports GC, Kent, has had rounds of 75 and 82 in the Samford Women's Intercollegiate at Hoover, Alabama.
Former Scottish U18 girls champion Lesley Atkins (Louisiana-Monroe), a sophomore and member of Gullane Ladies, has scotred 87-85 so far in this three-round event.