Sunday, March 31
Stockbridge, GA
Jax State
at
John Kirk Panther Intercollegiate
Photo by: Randy Wilson Photography
4/2/2019 8:35:00 PM | Women's Golf
STOCKBRIDGE, Ga. – Jacksonville State senior Paula Vega finished second and led the Jacksonville State women's golf team to a sixth-place finish at the Georgia State John Kirk/Panther Intercollegiate.
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Vega, a native of Medellin, Colombia, shot a final-round 74 on the par-72, 6,043-yard Eagle's Landing Country Club on Tuesday, finishing one shot back of medalist Natalia Villavicencio of South Florida. She finished ahead of 88 players in the 90-person field.
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The Gamecocks finished sixth out of 16 teams, carding a final-round 308 on Tuesday to finish off a 54-hole score of 916. South Florida won the event with an 890, 22 shots better than a second-place tie between Florida Gulf Coast and Murray State. JSU finished just four shots out of second place.
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Vega claims the second-best finish of her career with the runner-up trophy. She won the Chris Banister Golf Classic earlier this season. The 54-hole total of 219 for Vega drops her season scoring average to 73.83, second-lowest among all OVC golfers and on pace to be the second-lowest single-season average in school history.
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On Tuesday, she overcame three bogeys in her first six holes and played the final 12 at 1-under. A birdie on No. 2, her 17th hole of the day, to grab the runner-up finish. A consistent week across the course, Vega finished in the top six in the field in scoring on each the par-three, -four and -five holes.
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Sophomore Ana Perez Altuna also finished in the top 10 for the Gamecocks, tying for 10th place with a three-day score of 226. The native of Buenos Aires, Argentina, finished the event with a Tuesday 76, thanks to a pair of birdies on the back nine.Â
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Sophomore Valentina Curet shot 80 in Tuesday to cap a 237 and tie for 41st, while freshman Claire Vermette and junior Javiera Espinosa tied for 44th with scores of 239.
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The tournament was the final tune up before the Ohio Valley Conference Championship, which will be held April 15-17 at the Schoolmaster Course on Robert Trent Jones Golf Trails' The Shoals property.
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Vega, a native of Medellin, Colombia, shot a final-round 74 on the par-72, 6,043-yard Eagle's Landing Country Club on Tuesday, finishing one shot back of medalist Natalia Villavicencio of South Florida. She finished ahead of 88 players in the 90-person field.
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The Gamecocks finished sixth out of 16 teams, carding a final-round 308 on Tuesday to finish off a 54-hole score of 916. South Florida won the event with an 890, 22 shots better than a second-place tie between Florida Gulf Coast and Murray State. JSU finished just four shots out of second place.
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Vega claims the second-best finish of her career with the runner-up trophy. She won the Chris Banister Golf Classic earlier this season. The 54-hole total of 219 for Vega drops her season scoring average to 73.83, second-lowest among all OVC golfers and on pace to be the second-lowest single-season average in school history.
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On Tuesday, she overcame three bogeys in her first six holes and played the final 12 at 1-under. A birdie on No. 2, her 17th hole of the day, to grab the runner-up finish. A consistent week across the course, Vega finished in the top six in the field in scoring on each the par-three, -four and -five holes.
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Sophomore Ana Perez Altuna also finished in the top 10 for the Gamecocks, tying for 10th place with a three-day score of 226. The native of Buenos Aires, Argentina, finished the event with a Tuesday 76, thanks to a pair of birdies on the back nine.Â
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Sophomore Valentina Curet shot 80 in Tuesday to cap a 237 and tie for 41st, while freshman Claire Vermette and junior Javiera Espinosa tied for 44th with scores of 239.
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The tournament was the final tune up before the Ohio Valley Conference Championship, which will be held April 15-17 at the Schoolmaster Course on Robert Trent Jones Golf Trails' The Shoals property.
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