Milosh Maintains Steady Pace for her Third Consecutive NEC Championship;
Red Flash Fall to Fifth after Day Two
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Dade City, Fla. (April 26, 2008) – Succeeding Saturday’s second round of competition at the Northeast Conference Championships, the Saint Francis women’s golf team trickled down one spot in the standings from yesterday’s fourth place performance. The Red Flash combined for a five-man score of 341 (+53), up eight swings from yesterday’s total. SFU, now in fifth place, allowed Central Connecticut State to seize fourth place away from them subsequent to the Blue Devils ripping up the Lake Jovita Golf & Country Club for the lowest second round score of 328. Fairleigh Dickinson still has a leg up on the competition in first place with a 10-round aggregate of 654, but Sacred Heart is hot on the trail, just two strokes behind at 656.
Senior Samantha Milosh (Aliquippa, Pa./Center) did not let her second place ranking slip away, though, after firing a 79 on Saturday. The two-time defending NEC Champion has racked up a two-day total of +13, 157 (78-79). Milosh is knotted in the two-spot with Fairleigh Dickinson’s Lisa Warrilow. The four-time recipient of NEC Golfer of the Week this year was clustered with three others in second place yesterday. Warrilow was part of the bottleneck after day one, but the two others, FDU’s Michelle Holzwarth and Sacred Heart’s Joanne Martorana, descended to T-7th and T-16th, respectively.
Central Connecticut State sophomore Lucie Sarochova, a two-time NEC Golfer of the Week honoree this season, continues to set the pace, carding a 75 in the second round of competition. She leads Milosh by five strokes.
Saint Francis’ other senior, Stephanie Switzer (Beaver, Pa./Beaver), leaped up eight spots from yesterday into a swarm of players in a tie for ninth. Switzer fired an 80 on Saturday to go along with her day one score of 85. Switzer’s +21, 165 is matched up with Long Island’s Natalie Desjardins, Emma Lister and Heather Pothier along with SHU’s Lauren Foster.
Sophomore Lisa Kocin (Parma, Ohio / Padua Franciscan) found Lake Jovita a bit more treacherous on her second trial, looping the 5,820-yard beast for a 92; eight shots higher than yesterday’s 84. Kocin’s +32, 176 places her in a four-way tie with her teammate, freshman Caryn Doege (Monroeville, Pa./Gateway) alongside Robert Morris’ Heather Mulvaney and Lauren Lancia. Doege backed up her first day count of 86 with a 90 in day two of competition.
Freshman Laura Smith (State Line, Pa./Greencastle Antrim) stands alone in 38th place after carding a 94 in her second go-around. Smith lost just one stroke from day one’s 93, as she now has a +43, 187 sum total.
Turning to the statistical output, two members of the Red Flash have dominated the par 5s at Lake Jovita G & C. Milosh is currently -1 on all par 5s, holding onto a 4.88 scoring summary on all four trials, combined. Right behind Milosh is Doege, who is tied with two others as being documented for an even-par tally for all eight runs though Lake Jovita’s par 5 tests.
Milosh s T-4th overall in par 4 scoring with a +10, 4.50 average while Switzer is in seventh with a +12, 4.60 record. Milosh has recorded 21 total pars, second most in the tournament whereas Switzer’s 18 pars stands T-6th on the whole. Doege is T-7th with her 17 total pars in two days work.
The Red Flash lag 30 strokes behind the FDU Knights, but as we all know, anything is possible on Sunday’s final round of competition.
The nine-team leaderboard after day is as follows:
1 Fairleigh Dickinson 324 330 (654) +78
2 Sacred Heart 326 330 (656) +80
3 Long Island 330 333 (663) +87
4 Central Conn. St. 343 328 (671) +95
5 Saint Francis (PA) 333 341 (674) +98
6 Monmouth University 360 332 (692) +116
7 Robert Morris 363 342 (705) +129
8 Mount St. Mary's 353 356 (709) +133
9 St. Francis (NY) 423 428 (851) +275