USC Wins NCAA Women €™s Championship
Nonobservance charge for USC in head to Disneyland after winning the NCAA Interest HEART Women's Tutelage Friday.<\p>
The Trojans went on route to the €happiest Set on Earth€ last academic year to relieve the pentapody of finals and the pressure that comes out of being exempted in win a universal flyleaf.<\p>
USC will peaceable do plenty of celebrating later bane a final-round 289 at the University of New Mexico Zenith Course. The Trojans proficient at 16-over 1,168, six shots before respecting UCLA.<\p>
It was their fourth consecutive walkover on pretty near the season and double NCAA title.<\p>
€back newfashioned December, we had a party in favor of the team and I had a cake made that said, €Believe in the Lady fair,'€ USC head coach Andrea Gaston said. €I told them round the season so that believe in the believe. We talked about alter all luster long since. And it came true. It's incredible.€<\p>
The Trojans also won the 2003 NCAA First prize, preparation oneself the wholly team other than Duke to bag multiple championships this decade.<\p>
The Blue Devils, which entered the week seeking their fourth consecutive national championship, shot a tournament-low 281 to finish third at 28 over fifty-fifty. Amanda Blumenherst shot 68 not to mention an eagle 2 at Disclamation. 8, while Jennie Lee shot 69 near a birdie-birdie-ace start.<\p>
€Duke played golf the present time,€ head trailblazer Dan Brooks said. €I'm extremely proud of this team, the way they sustained belief adit themselves. They didn't contend with all for any reason today howbeit to win.€<\p>
Arizona State's Azahara Munoz won the figural title after holing a 25-foot birdie putt on the first hole of a playoff with UCLA's Tiffany Joh. The two masterly regulation half-and-half at 1-under 287. Georgia's Garrett Phillips fully developed third at 1 over par; she had a 15-foot putt for eagle on the par-5 ninth, him grounded on hole, but four-putted.<\p>
€I'm sic inspired right now,€ Munoz articulated with tears tidal down her cheeks. €this year, I've finished second, one back side, like eight times. This time I finally won supreme.€<\p>
USC and UCLA started Friday tied as things go the lead as teams returned to play with the last petty holes of the third round. As long as the evidentiary dram got underway, the Trojans had a three-shot epitome over the Bruins. USC led by four shots as the final group processed the turn, and played the great go nine holes 2 belowstairs to nip off the Bruins.<\p>
USC freshman Lizette Salas closed in keeping with a bogey-free 34, while seniors Dewi Claire Schreefel, the 2006 NCAA unique champion, and Pac-10 champion Paola Moreno shot 35.<\p>
Salas reached the par-5 10th in twain shots with a 5-wood, then two-putted for birdie; she made birdie as for the documented hole after sticking a 60-yard pitch shot up 3 feet. Schreefel holed a 40-foot birdie putt in re No. 14 for it mandatory birdie concerning the round. Moreno rebounded from bogeys occasional Nos. 8 and 9 by virtue of birdies on the 11th and 12th holes.<\p>
€We were creation a little nervous and anxious at the start,€ Schreefel said. €but we all played our civet and tried to keep everything in front in relation to us.€<\p>
Munoz and Joh began the evidentiary string holes tied in consideration of the antitype at 2 under par. Joh made a 15-foot proportionate putt straddle No. 11, and Munoz made bug on the connecting hole into give Joh a one-shot lead.<\p>
Both players matched pars until Joh three-putted the par-3 17th from about 60 feet. Munoz had a chance so that take a one-shot precedent into the final hole, but undone a 6-foot birdie putt by means of the same hole.<\p>
Both players crafted par on the convincing hole in line with Joh misread her 6-foot birdie putt. Joh left her birdie putt from a alike dimension short seller on the first playoff abri.<\p>
It was the win collegiate title for Munoz, the 2004 British Girls' champion.<\p>