HANNAH AND SIAN BOTH ON 77 MARK
IN BIG 12 CONFERENCE CHAMPIONSHIP

Baylor University, Texas students Hannah Burke from Welwyn Garden City, Hertfordshire and Folkestone’s Sian Reddick were lying joint seventh in a field of 60 players at the end of the first round of the Big 12 Conference Women’s Championship at Ridgewood Country Club, Waco in Texas.
Over a par-72 course of 6,412yd, Hannah compiled her five-over-par 77 with birdies at the seventh, 15th and 16th but an outward half of 40 included a double-bogey 6 at the eighth.
Former English women’s amateur stroke-play champion Sian had no birdies in her 77 but she did have a double bogey 6 at the seventh.
Danielle McVeigh, the Irish girls champion of 2005, was back in joint 22nd place after a 78 which included not one but two double-bogey 6s, at the second and 11th. She did compensate with birdies at the first, sixth and ninth.
Amanda Costner (Kansas) is the leader on one-under-par 71, one shot ahead of Daniell’s Texas A&M team-mate, Christa Spedding.
Texas A&M (300) lead the team event by eight shots from Oaklahoma State, Baylor and Colorado in a field of 12 colleges.

DONEGAL STUDENT SHARES LEAD IN
SOUTHLAND CHAMPIONSHIP

Thomas Kearney from Donegal, a junior-year student at Texas-San Antonio University, shared the lead on two-under-par 70 with two other players at the end of the first round in the Southland Conference Collegiate championship at The Club at Comanche Trace in Kerryville, Texas.
Londoner James Taverner (South-east Louisiana) had a 74 to be sharing 11th place ahead of team-mate Peter O’Keeffe from Cork. Petere had a 75 to be joint 16th.
Fergal Rafferty (Sam Houston State) from Carrickmore was in joint 18th place after a 76.
Aaron O’Callaghan (South-east Louisiana) from Cork was in a share of 20th place on 77 in a field of 50 players.
Matt Carver (South-east Louisian) and Casey Clendenon (Lamar) shared the lead with Kearney on 70.
Lamar (284) lead the team event from South-east Louisiana and Texas-San Antonio (290) in a field of 12 college squads.