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Blazer Women Stand Eighth After C-USA First Round
4/18/2005 12:00:00 AM | Women's Golf
April 18, 2005
GERMANTOWN, Tenn. - The UAB women's golf team stands in eighth place out of 10 teams in the 2005 Conference USA Women's Golf Championships after Monday's first round. Liz Schweihs's first-round 76 was the low score of the day for the Blazers.
"This is an older course with elevated greens," UAB head coach Kim Wilcox said of the par-71, 6,088-yard Germantown Country Club course. "We're just not used to those types of greens, which were very hard today. Hopefully, we'll make an adjustment for tomorrow and recover. We didn't do a good job of that today."
Schweihs stands tied with two others for 13th out of 50 individuals in the tournament. Fellow senior Brooke Mangan's first-round 80 is good enough for 30th place. Janey Deimling (82, 38th) is a stroke ahead of teammates Martha Hudson and Lois Jones, who carded first-round 83s and are tied for 39th overall.
TCU leads the field after a first-round team score of 294. The Horned Frogs are four shots ahead of USF and Tulane. Southern Miss and host Memphis round out the top five while East Carolina and Louisville stand ahead of the Blazers. UAB is just 10 strokes from the top five, however, and 11 strokes ahead of ninth place Cincinnati. St. Louis is 10th.
"It's not over, by any stretch," Wilcox explained. "There are two rounds to go and that's a lot of golf to be played."
Fernanda Rivera of USF fired a two-under-par 70 to take the early individual lead. Stacey Bieber of TCU is a shot back and the only other under-par golfer. Adrienne White of Louisville is third at even par, 72.
The tournament will continue with Tuesday's second round at the Germantown County Club course.
