TicketsBires Scores Hole In One At Great Smokies
Few leads Bearcats through 18 holes
Contact: Shawn Sell
10/18/2004
Sophomore Sarah Bires got her first career hole in one Monday at the Great Smokies Intercollegiate. |
WAYNESVILLE, N.C.?Sophomore Sarah Bires shot the first hole in one of her career and the 12th in the nation this fall to highlight the University of Cincinnati women?s golf team?s participation in day one of the Wachovia Great Smokies Intercollegiate.
Bires (Martinsville, Ind./Martinsville) got the hole in one on the par three, 145-yard hole number two on the Blue Ridge course. She joins Western Carolina?s Brandy Anderson as they only players to achieve the feat in the six-year history of the tournament. Bires finished the day tied for 55th with a score of 79.
Leading the way for the Bearcats in the opening round of play was senior Alysa Few (London, Ontario/East Tennessee State) who is tied for 44th with a 78. Allison Couch (Centerville, Ohio/Centerville) matched Bires? day one total of 79 to share 55th in a season-best round for the senior.
In the team standings, the Bearcats are 13th of 24 teams with a first day score of 316. Western Carolina is leading the team standings with a three-over par 291, six strokes better Murray State.
The race for medalist honors is being dominated at the top by a pair of Western Carolina players as Ashley Hovda, a native of Springfield, Ohio, leads teammate Bianca Melone by five strokes. Hovda posted a round of 67 one shot over the tournament single round record.
The tournament concludes with the final 18 holes, beginning with a shotgun start at 9:30 a.m. on Tuesday.
Day One UC Individual Scores
T 44 Alysa Few 37- 41 78
T 55 Allison Couch 38- 41 79
T 55 Sarah Bires 45- 34 79
T 67 Hillery Wilson 40- 40 80
T 77 Allison Mayborg 41- 40 81
Day One Team Scores
1 Western Carolina U. 291 +3
2 Murray State Univ. 297 +9
3 Xavier University 299 +11
4 East Tennessee State 301 +13
Tennessee Tech U. 301 +13
6 Elon University 303 +15
7 Wm. & Mary, Coll. of 306 +18
8 Gardner-Webb Univ. 308 +20
9 Eastern Kentucky 309 +21
10 Longwood University 310 +22
11 Samford University 311 +23
12 Appalachian State U. 313 +25
13 Cincinnati, U. of 316 +28
14 Western Kentucky U. 318 +30
South Alabama, U. of 318 +30
Austin Peay State U. 318 +30
17 Lipscomb University 320 +32
18 Wofford College 322 +34
19 Belmont University 324 +36
20 Dayton, U. of 325 +37
21 High Point U. 326 +38
22 Loyola University 330 +42
23 Evansville, Univ. of 331 +43
24 Mobile, U. of 354 +66