SCHALLENBERG AND MUNOZ QUALIFY FOR
MATCH-PLAY IN US WOMEN'S AMATEUR

Europeans Katharina Schallenberg from Germany and Spain's Azahara Munoz figured among the 64 qualifiers for the match-play stages of the United States women's amateur championship at Crooked Stick Golf Club, Carmel in Indiana onTuesday.
Top-ranked amateur Stacy Lewis and high school junior Kristina Wong shared the leading qualifier honours.
Lewis, the individual NCAA Division I champion, and Wong, 32nd in the Golfweek/Titleist junior rankings, both posted rounds of 70-69 for a five-under 139 total.
Lewis knows she now has to deal with the unofficial USGA medalist (leading qualifier) jinx.
“The medalist hasn’t had that much success,” said Lewis, a semi-finalist last year. “I was just playing for par and I got the putter rolling.”
Wong was equally thrilled: “Being medalist would be cool but I couldn’t get too hung up on it,” she said.
Lewis and Wong finished one stroke ahead of three 17-year-olds from Korea: So Yeon Ryu, Mi Jung Hur and Jennifer Song, who tied for low amateur at the 2007 US Women’s Open.
Only players with 36-hole totals of six-over-par 150 and better made it through to the match-play stages - tying the lowest cut in the 112-year history of the event.
Defending champion Kimberly Kim flirted with missing the cut, but rebounded with a three-under-par 33 on her back nine to easily secure a match-play berth.
Golfweek’s top-ranked collegiate Amanda Blumenhurst also advanced after opening with a four-over 40 on the front nine Monday.
All four of last year’s semi-finalists qualified: Lewis, Kim, Germany's Katharina Schallenberg (who lost in the final to Kimberly Kim) and Lindy Duncan.
Notables failing to qualify included 2007 U.S. Girls' Junior champion Kristen Park, 2006 U.S. Women's Mid-Amateur champion Meghan Bolger, three-time USA Curtis Cupper and 1998 U.S. Women's Mid-Amateur champion Virginia Grimes and two-time USGA Senior Women's Amateur champion Diane Lang.
MATCH-PLAY QUALIFIERS
Crooked Stick GC, Carmel, Indiana.
Par 144 (2 x 72). 6,497yd.
139 Kristina Wong 70 69, Stacy Lewis 70 69.
140 Jennifer Song 67 73, So Yeon Rhy 71 69, Mi Jung Hur 68 72.
141 Jenny Suh 71 70, Maria Jose Uribe 69 72, Rikako Morita 71 70.
142 Marci Turner 70 72, Alison Walshe 71 71, Jennifer Ackerson 69 73.
143 Tiffany Joh 69 74, Alexis Thompson 72 71.
144 Dolores White 71 73, Mina Harigate 72 72, Taylore Karle 72 72, Shanshan Feng 69 75.
145 Nicole Smith 72 73, Pearl Jin 75 70, Lauren Hunt 71 74, Jane Rah 73 72.
146 Mallory Blackwelder 72 74, Victoria Park 74 72, Candace Schepperle 67 79, Amanda Blumenherst 75 71, Kimberly Kim 73 73, Ha Na Jang 73 73, Tiffany Lua 70 76, Catherine O'Donnell 69 77.
147 Lisa McCloskey 71 76, Vicky Hurst 72 75, Jennie Lee 74 73, Michelle Shin 70 77, Kira Meixner 74 73, Mari Chun 71 76, Katharina Schallenberg (Germany) 76 71.
148 Ayaka Kaneko 71 77, Kristin Ingram 71 77, Lindy Duncan 72 76.
149 Emma Jandel 72 77, Becca Huffer 74 75, Tanya Wadhwa 76 73, Andrea Messer 76 73, Ashley Tait 76 73, Tamasin Clelland 71 78, Courtney Ellenbogen 74 75, Rebecca Kim 76 73, Kristie Smith 74 75, Sara-Maude Juneau 79 70, Sydney Burlison 73 76.
150 Azahara Munoz (Spain) 76 74, Katie Miller 73 77, Brianno Do 75 75, Sydnee Michaels
77 73, Lee Lopez 74 76, Amanda Costner 75 75, Blair Lamb 77 73, Kylene Pulley 81 69, Evan Jensen 73 77.