University of Southern Indiana Women’s Golf senior Anastasia Carter (Granger, Indiana) sits in a tie for 56th-place after the opening round of the NCAA Division II National Championships. The event is being held at the par 72, CommonGround Golf Course.
Paired with Rachel Gray of Concordia University, St. Paul and Sterling Hawkins of Academy of Art University, Carter began the tournament on the front nine. Despite two bogies in her first three holes, Carter was able to rattle off three-straight pars. With her second bogey-par-bogey sequence of the front, Carter recorded a 40 (+4) in her opening nine.
Courtesy of a double-bogey on the par-five 11th, Carter dropped to six over for her round through 11 holes. Carter rebounded for six straight pars on holes 12-17 before ending her opening round with a bogey on 18.
Leading the field is Mailen Domecq Chantry of Nova Southeastern University who carded a three-under 69, while Brinn Fariss of Dallas Baptist University and Marisa Toivonen Augustana University are tied for second after first round scores of 70. Vilde Eriksen of St. Leo University and Lexie Toth of Rollins College finished with scores of 71 to round out the top-five.
Leading the 12 teams competing are Nova Southeaster and Rollins College in a tie for first with scores of 290 in round one. Dallas Baptist is third, three-strokes off the pace set by the leaders.
Carter will begin the second round of the event at 9:50 a.m. local time/10:50 a.m. central time on the 10th-hole with the same pairings as round one.
Live stats for the event can be found at http://bit.ly/1quGs80.
