LIVE STATS AND RESULTS
LITCHFIELD PARK, Ariz. --
Spencer Heller fired a 69, her best-ever round in an NCAA postseason event, to trail the leader, Tarleton State's Jacqueline Lau, by one stroke after the first of three rounds at this week's NCAA Division II Women's Golf West Super Regional, hosted by Grand Canyon University at The Wigwam in Litchfield Park, Arlz. As a team, Sonoma State trails Tarleton State by 16 strokes and is in eighth place out of nine teams with 36 holes to play.
Heller carded her second-lowest round of the season on Sunday. In fact, it came on the same course that she recorded a career-best 68 just nine months earlier at the Grand Canyon Fall Invitational on Sept. 26, 2011. Teammate
Samantha Balanon shot a 76 on Sunday to tie for 20th, followed by
Chelsa Helget-Robinson, who is tied for 28th with an opening round score of 78.
McKayla Kennedy brought in an 84 to tie for 45th and
Zoei Zbaraschuk is tied for 47th with a score of 85.
Tarleton State (291) and St. Edwards (292) are separated by just one stroke atop the team leaderboard, followed by Grand Canyon (296), Cal State Monterey Bay (298) and Central Oklahoma (304). Midwestern State and Texas A&M are tied at sixth place with a score of 306, leading eighth place Sonoma State (307) and ninth place Northeastern State (317).
Sonoma State will begin the second of three rounds on Monday, starting at 7:50 a.m. Live stats are available by
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golfstat.com.