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Edisto Island, S.C. – Sophomore transfer Elsa Maren Steinarsdôttir followed up her opening round 2-over par with a 3-over par second round score of 74 to guide the Catamounts to a sixth-place tie with 18 holes remaining at the Edisto Island Invitational, hosted by the College of Charleston at the par-71, 5,980-yard Plantation Course.
Paired with golfers from Campbell and Longwood, Western Carolina’s scoring five opens between holes No. 8 and No. 10 for the second-straight day with Tuesday morning’s 9:30 a.m. shotgun start.
Steinarsdôttir countered five bogeys with two more birdies to give her six through 36 holes of competition, firing a second-round score of 3-over par 74. The Akranes, Iceland, product carded three straight pars to start the day before bogeys on three of the next six holes with her first birdie of the second day on the par-4 15th to leave her 2-over par midway through the round. Steinarsdôttir posted two additional bogeys on the first and fourth, with a birdie on the par-4 second for the second-straight day.
Graduate transfer EC Niebauer advanced three spots to hit the clubhouse tied with senior teammate Sadler Miller in a tie for 34th overall with two others with a two-round score of 156.
Niebauer trimmed four strokes off her second-round score with a 5-over par 76, while Miller matched her opening round 78 on Monday. Niebauer birdied her first hole of the day on the par-5 10th before a trio of bogeys left her making the turn for home at 2-over par. A double-bogey on No. 1 relegated her to 4-over par before a second birdie, coming on the par-4 fourth that she bogeyed on Sunday. Two additional bogeys left her at 3-over on the front and 5-over par for the day. Meanwhile, Miller carded two more birdies in fighting through her second round of 7-over par 78.
Niebauer has five birdies through 36 holes to trail Steinarsdôttir, who ranks tied for third in the field with six total. Miller has carded four entering Tuesday, and remains the only golfer in the field to have carded an eagle, doing so on Sunday. Steinarsdôttir remains tied for fifth in the field in par-4 scoring at 4.09 (+2), and is tied for second in par-5 scoring at 4.67 (-2).
Rounding out WCU’s scoring five are sophomore Annalee Caveney, down three spots into a four-way tie for 40th with a two-round score of 158, and sophomore transfer Emily Rosenschein in a tie for 73rd at 185, improving by nine strokes on Monday. Caveney was two strokes better on Monday, adding two more birdies to her tournament total of four, with Rosenschein carding a birdie on the par-3, 139-yard No. 3.
The host CofC Cougars (588) lead the 14-team field by five strokes over second-place Elon (593), which slipped out of the top spot after Sunday’s first round. Georgia State (606) is down one spot into third overall, with Stetson (612) and East Carolina (613) rounding out the top five.
WCU is tied with Wofford and Campbell with matching scores of 617, four strokes outside of the team top five with one round to play.
No. 124 Molly Hardwick turned in a 2-under par second round score of 69 to pull out to a two-stroke lead over runner-up Emma Hansen of Elon, 141-to-143. Charleston’s Carys Fennessy jumped two spots into third, four strokes off the pace at 145 to round out the podium.
Live scoring of Tuesday’s final round is available online through the Scoreboard app, powered by Clippd, with a link at CatamountSports.com.
T6 – Western Carolina – 311 – 306 = 617 (+49)
T5 – Elsa Maren Steinarsdôttir – 73-74 = 147 (+5)
T34 – EC Niebauer – 80-76 = 156 (+14)
T34 – Sadler Miller – 78-78 = 156 (+14)
T40 – Annalee Caveney – 80-78 = 158 (+16)
T73 – Emily Rosenschein – 97-88 = 185 (+43)
