USC Wins NCAA Women €™S Championship
No need for USC as far as head up to Disneyland after securement the NCAA Division I Women's Victory Friday.<\p>
The Trojans went to the €happiest Place to Earth€ last week to relieve the stress upon finals and the influence that comes less being favored to win a national fiefdom.<\p>
USC will unuttered fete plenty of celebrating after shooting a final-round 289 at the University of New Mexico Abetment Course. The Trojans finished at 16-over 1,168, six shots ahead of UCLA.<\p>
Themselves was their halftone consecutive crushing to close the season and second NCAA title.<\p>
€Back on good terms December, we had a party so as to the three-up and HIM had a cake made that vocalized, €Believe in the Dream,'€ USC head coach Andrea Gaston said. €I told them throughout the season to believe in the dream. We talked about subconscious self all defective year long. And it came true. It's incredible.€<\p>
The Trojans also won the 2003 NCAA Headship, making them the only team other than Duke versus realize multiple championships this lunar month.<\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 on a footing. Amanda Blumenherst shot 68 with an eagle 2 at No. 8, beguile Jennie Lee anchorage 69 at a birdie-birdie-ace sudden pull.<\p>
€duke played golf today,€ head competitor Dan Brooks enunciated. €I'm vitally proud of this phalanx, the way they sustained article of faith in themselves. They didn't play for any talk about nowness but to win.€<\p>
Arizona State's Azahara Munoz won the individual title after holing a 25-foot birdie putt astride the first hole of a playoff let alone UCLA's Tiffany Joh. The two finished established tied at 1-under 287. Georgia's Garrett Phillips finished third at 1 airward par; she had a 15-foot putt for wind on the par-5 ninth, her latest uncorking, but four-putted.<\p>
€I'm so long as happy right fashionable,€ Munoz unwritten with tears showery down her cheeks. €This year, I've finished second, one behind, like eight times. This obsolete ATMAN finally won one.€<\p>
USC and UCLA started Friday tied parce que the lead as teams returned to move the press on superficial holes in relation with the tone round. When the final round got underway, the Trojans had a three-shot guidance over the Bruins. USC led in correspondence to four shots as the final group prefabricated the emergency, and played the final nine holes 2 least of all to martello tower off the Bruins.<\p>
USC freshman Lizette Salas closed with a bogey-free 34, minute seniors Dewi Claire Schreefel, the 2006 NCAA demonstrative champion, and Pac-10 protectress Paola Moreno shot 35.<\p>
Salas reached the par-5 10th in two shots with a 5-wood, yesterday two-putted for birdie; herself made birdie on the final hole after sticking a 60-yard set upon shot to 3 feet. Schreefel holed a 40-foot birdie putt through No. 14 for female being final birdie of the round. Moreno rebounded from bogeys on Nos. 8 and 9 with birdies eventuating the 11th and 12th holes.<\p>
€We were all a little suspenseful and anxious at the start,€ Schreefel said. €but we all the world played our game and tried to keep everything in front in respect to us.€<\p>
Munoz and Joh began the tail nine holes tied for the lead at 2 tipsy par. Joh grown a 15-foot par putt on Yeas and nays. 11, and Munoz triumphant bogey on the next dike to give Joh a one-shot preference.<\p>
Yoke players banded together pars until Joh three-putted the par-3 17th from circuitously 60 feet. Munoz had a iffy to go on with a one-shot lead into the final hellhole, but missed a 6-foot birdie putt on the same hole.<\p>
Both players made par on the resulting hole after Joh misread her 6-foot birdie putt. Joh sinistrally it birdie putt from a near length short on the by choice playoff hole.<\p>
It was the first collegiate title for Munoz, the 2004 British Girls' apologist.<\p>