Oct. 1, 2006

FINAL ROUND PHOTO GALLERY

Wachovia - Great Smokies Intercollegiate Round Two Team Scores

Wachovia - Great Smokies Intercollegiate Round Two Individual Scores

Wachovia - Great Smokies Intercollegiate Round Two Team Combined Scores

Waynesville, N.C. - Western Carolina made up three strokes on first-round leading East Tennessee State over the final 18 holes, rallying from second-place to win its fifth-consecutive Wachovia - Great Smokies Intercollegiate by one stroke at the par 72, 5,915-yard Waynesville Country Club. Austin Peay State's Staci Lynch carded a two-round 140 to break the Catamounts' string of five-straight individual winners by taking the medalist honors on the weekend.

Western Carolina, which had opened the season with two-consecutive, third-place finishes, broke into the win column for the first-time this season firing 294 on Sunday for a two-round score of 586. East Tennessee State shot 298 over the final round to stand as the tournament runner-up for the second-straight season. Winthrop moved up one spot from its first round position to place third (595), followed by South Alabama (596) in fourth and a four-way tie for fifth including Xavier, Elon, Belmont, and Marshall all finishing at 606. Rounding out the top 10 were UAB and Charleston Southern tied for ninth with totals of 611.

Western's 586 tied its score from 2002 in the same tournament - which ironically enough started the current string of five-straight tournament championships for the Catamounts. WCU has now finished in the top five in tournament play nine-straight times and 13 of its last 14 events dating back to the spring of 2005.

Lynch, who entered Sunday tied for first after an opening 71, carded the second-lowest round of the tournament, 69, to win by two strokes over Charleston Southern's Olivia Higgins, who shot 68 on Sunday to post the lowest round over the 36-hole tournament. Higgins also led all 119 players with 11 birdies, followed by nine by Lynch.

Western Carolina freshman Desiree Karlsson recorded her best-ever collegiate finish in third with a two round 143. Yet, it was her heroics on the 18th hole - her 17th with the shot gun start - that helped WCU to the team title. After shooting long on her second shot, Karlsson chipped in for eagle from 22 yards out to move to one-under for the day. She would par the final hole (number one Carolina) to post her first-ever below-par score of 71.

WCU junior Kandy Carland, one day after shooting her career-low round of 71, posted a sixth-place finish to put two Catamounts in the top 10. Junior Malin Fryk fell from her first-place tie but managed to finish tied for 14th on the weekend shooting 149. Western's lone senior, Bianca Melone, rallied from a 46th-place tie on Saturday to stand tied for 21st with an even-par 72 on Sunday for a two-day total of 150, and freshman Elin Mickelsson posted a 56th-place performance with a 155, shaving three strokes off her first round 79 to shoot 76 on the final 18.

Western Carolina and head coach Steve Lott will take a well-deserved break before returning to action at the Univ. of Cincinnati Fall Classic in Batavia, Ohio on Oct.16 and 17.

Wachovia -Great Smokies Intercollegiate All-Tournament Team:
Staci Lynch, Austin Peay State (Individual Medalist) - 140
Olivia Higgins, Charleston Southern (Individual Runner-Up) - 142
Desiree Karlsson, Western Carolina - 143
Kate O' Sullivan, High Point - 144
Danielle Mills, Elon - 145
Anna Rogers, Mercer - 146
Jutta Degerman, Winthrop - 146
Erin White, Winthrop - 146
Kandy Carland, Western Carolina - 146

   School                 Scores
 1 Western Carolina U.    292 294 586 +10
 2 East Tennessee State   289 298 587 +11
 3 Winthrop University    303 292 595 +19
 4 South Alabama, U. of   304 292 596 +20
 5 Xavier University      309 297 606 +30
   Elon University        311 295 606 +30
   Belmont University     305 301 606 +30
   Marshall University    307 299 606 +30
 9 UAB                    311 300 611 +35
   Charleston Southern    310 301 611 +35
11 Mercer University      310 302 612 +36
12 Gardner-Webb Univ.     302 311 613 +37
13 Appalachian State U.   309 306 615 +39
14 Tennessee Tech U.      315 301 616 +40
15 Austin Peay State U.   316 303 619 +43
16 High Point U.          320 302 622 +46
17 Wofford College        317 306 623 +47
18 Kennesaw St. Univ.     312 313 625 +49
19 Mobile, U. of          322 318 640 +64
20 Radford University     322 319 641 +65
21 Lipscomb University    346 331 677 +101
22 Dayton, U. of          362 325 687 +111
23 Citadel, The           373 362 735 +159

   1 Western Carolina U. 292 294  586
   3 Desiree Karlsson     72  71  143
T  6 Kandy Carland        71  75  146
T 14 Malin Fryk           71  78  149
T 21 Bianca Melone        78  72  150
T 56 Elin Mickelsson      79  76  155