Great Scott! Anna makes good

comeback from elbow injury

Anna Scott, pictured right, from Consett, Co Durham, a final-year student at Georgia State University, has made an excellent comeback from an elbow injury which ruled her out of the first two tournaments of the new American college season.

After finishing fifth in the Starmount Classic at Greensboro, North Carolina, Anna's joint 12th performance in a field of 102 players for the Lady Pirate Intercollegiate tournament at Greenville Country Club, North Carolina, this week helped Georgia State (862) win the team event by the resounding margin of 37 strokes from East Carolina with Miami a distant third on 913 in a field of 20 teams.

Anna's opening rounds of 76 and 77 over the 5,939yd, par-71 course left her in joint 20th position with one day to go. Then a good effort of 73 for a total of 226 moved her up eighth places in the final standings behind South African team-mate Iliska Verwey who shot 75, 678 and 73 for 216.

Sinead O'Sullivan (East Tennessee State) from Galway came joint 40th with 78, 77 and 78 for 234, two shots ahead of team-mate and twice former Welsh girls champion Lucy Gould from Bargoed. Lucy scored 81, 76 and 79 to finished joint 51st.

Laura Holmes from Co Mayo, Ireland shared 84th place with 86, 84 and 78 for 248.

East Tennessee State (927) finished ninth in the team event.

Last week, Curtis Cup player Jodi Ewart (New Mexico) from Catterick, Yorkshire hit form late in the Stanford Intercollegiate tournament in California with a two-under-par 69 over the 6,092yd course, over which Tiger Woods used to play when he was a Stanford student.

Jodi finished on 215, rocketing up through the field from joint 41st after rounds of 70 and 76 to a final placing of joint 14th in a good-class field of 90 players, including runner-up Caroline Masson (Oklahoma State), German-born winner of the Spanish women's open amateur title earlier this year, and third-placed Belen Mozo (Southern California), the Spaniard who won both the British girls' and women's open amateur titles at Northern Ireland venues in 2006.

Lizette Salas (Southern California) won the Stanford Intercollegiate individual honours with 66, 72 and 68 for 206, two shots ahead of Masson and three clear of Mozo.

Roseanne Niven (California), playing as an individual, finished joint 74th with scores of 81, 74 and 75 for 230.

UCLA (844) won the team event from Southern California (847) with Stanford (857) third.