Oregon Finishes Sixth, Oregon State Ties For 13TH, After Final Round of Stanford Intercollegiate

Oregon Finishes Sixth, Oregon State Ties For 13TH, After Final Round of Stanford Intercollegiate

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STANFORD, Calif. - The duo of senior Kim McCready and sophomore Cathryn Bristow posted top-15 individual finishes in final day action Sunday in the Stanford Intercollegiate, and helped the University of Oregon women's golf team climb two spots to finish sixth against an all-star field in its final stop of the fall campaign.

The Ducks shot a two-over third and final-round score of 286 Sunday to finish the three rounds with a score of 878 (+26) after they opened with first- and second rounds of 297 and 295 Friday and Saturday.

The Ducks ranked third among the eight Pac-10 teams on hand, and beat three top-five ranked squads (No. 2 Duke and No. 3 UCLA) and two other squads ranked top-25 nationally (No. 15 New Mexico and No. 21 Arkansas). UO’s finish was also its first top-six finish at an invitational on ‘The Farm’ since they finished fourth in 1997.

Altogether, the Ducks have played in the Stanford Invitational/Intercollegiate 17 times

since their first trip in 1988, and have also finished top-10 in 1988 (seventh-996), ‘92 (sixth-tie, 930), ’93 (fourth, 904), ’94 (fifth-922), ’97 (fourth-892) and ’98 (eighth-912).

Individually for UO Sunday, senior Kim McCready shot a four-under 67 final round on the par-71, 5,985-yard course to match the tourney’s low round and climbed 11 spots in the final day standings to finish seventh at 2-under for the tournament (71-73-67-211).

The Placerville, Calif., native led UO for the fourth time in her last seven rounds and also enjoyed her fourth round of par or better in nine rounds altogether this fall. On Sunday, she birdied six holes (first, third, fourth, eighth, 12th and 16), parred nine more holes and bogeyed only twice on the 13th and 17th holes.

McCready enjoyed her best finish in the Cardinal-hosted stop after she finished 27th in 2005 (220), 48th in 2004 (226) and 33rd in 2003 (222).

On Sunday, Bristow shot her second round of par on the Stanford Golf Course with her 71 final round that moved her up seven spots into a tie for 13th in the final standings (74-71-71-216). The Huapai, N.Z. native birdied the seventh and 16th holes, shot par on 14 holes, and bogeyed the fifth and 10th holes Sunday. Sunday’s score was her fifth in the past seven rounds that was a 74 or better.

Freshman Felicia Eastick also enjoyed her lowest round of the tourney Sunday with an even–par 71 – her first round at par or better for the Ducks – and improved 10th spots in the final individual standings (40th-tie, 80-73-71-224), while fellow frosh Kate Hildahl scored for the Ducks for the sixth straight round this fall (54th, 75-79-77-231).

Senior Therese Wenslow add a 79 round Sunday and ended in a tie for 59th (77-78-79-234) in the field that featured 78 players.

Overall in the team standings, No. 9 Vanderbilt leapfrogged three spots in the team standings to win the tourney by five strokes (288-292-275-855) and edged No. 12 Arizona (second, 277-292-291-860), No. 1 Georgia (third, 284-286-292-862) and No. 6 Stanford (fourth, 286-278-299-863).

Other teams in the field included No. 41 San Jose State (fifth, 297-300-280-877), Oregon (sixth, 297-295-286-878), No. 2 Duke (seventh, 292-293-297-882), No. 15 Mexico (eighth-tie, 294-291-299-884), No. 3 UCLA (eight-tie, 298-296-290-884), No. 21 Arkansas (10th, 305-291-290-886), Washington State (11th, 295-296-306-897), California (12th, 311-295-295-901), Oregon State (13th-tie, 306-300-301-907), No. 46 Washington (13th-tie, 305-299-303-907) and Tulsa (15th, 302-304-307-913).

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