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Ragnhildur Kristinsdottir

Second Best Round Of The Day Keeps EKU Women's Golf In Contention At ASUN Championships

4/18/2022 7:26:00 PM

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VALDOSTA, Ga. –
Eastern Kentucky tied for the second best round of the day on Monday and stayed in contention heading into the final round of the ASUN Conference Women's Golf Championship in Valdosta, Georgia.
 
EKU began the day tied for third with Lipscomb.  The Colonels shot a second round 295 (+7) while the Bisons fell nine shots back after a second round 304 (+16).  North Florida (577) remained in the lead after a second round 294 (+6).  Kennesaw State (581) also shot a 295 on Monday and is in second place, four shots back.  Eastern Kentucky (589) is 12 back of UNF.
 
The three-day, 54-hole championship is being contested on the par 72, 6,213-yard course at Kinderlou Forest Golf Club.
 
Ragnhildur Kristinsdottir and Rylea Marcum fueled EKU's strong round with a pair of 2-under rounds of 70.  After a bogey on No. 10 put Kristinsdottir 1-over, she recorded three birdies over the final eight holes.  She had six bridies in the round.
 
Marcum made the turn at even-par, shot par on each of the next seven holes and then fired back-to-back birdies on the final two to finish 2-under.
 
Kristinsdottir is tied for fifth with a 36-hole total of 144 (E), four shots back of individual leader Bella Kil (140) of Kennesaw State.  Marcum (145) is eighth at 1-over.
 
Maddie Hensley (149) is tied for 13th and Elisa Orduna Shackleton (151) is tied for 23rd.  Vilma Efraimsson (153) is tied for 29th.
 
Jacksonville State (602) is fifth, four shots behind Lipscomb (598).  Central Arkansas (604) is sixth.  Three Florida teams sit in seventh, eighth and ninth – Jacksonville (605), Florida Gulf Coast (613) and Stetson (629).  North Alabama (640) rounds out the field of 11.
 
The final round of the 2022 ASUN Championship will begin at 8 a.m. ET on Tuesday.  The Colonels will begin teeing off at 10:15 a.m. ET.
 
3.  Eastern Kentucky                294-295 – 589 (+13)
T5. Ragnhildur Kristinsdottir      74-70 – 144 (E)
8. Rylea Marcum                         75-70 – 145 (+1)
T13. Maddie Hensley                 72-77 – 149 (+5)
T23. Elisa Orduna Shackleton     73-78 – 151 (+7)
T29. Vilma Efraimsson              75-78 – 153 (+9)

 
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