MONROE, N.C. - Led by freshman Makalyn Poole's second round 7-over-par 79, the Anderson women's golf team is eighth after the second day of the 2016 South Atlantic Conference Championship, hosted by Wingate on the par-72, 5,981-yard Monroe Country Club layout.
Queens University of Charlotte, which was tied with Wingate following Sunday's opening round, is bidding for its first SAC title after joining the conference in 2014, while posting a two-day 625 and leads defending champion Carson-Newman by six shots.
Carson-Newman is seeking its fourth championship and holds the second spot with a 631. Newberry (637) jumped from fifth to third and trails Queens by 12 strokes. Lincoln Memorial entered the second round tied with Carson-Newman atop the scoreboard, but slipped to fourth with a two-day 638. The host Bulldogs (639) fell to fifth from third, with Tusculum (652) moving into sixth. Coker (660), Anderson (664), Lenoir-Rhyne (667), Mars Hill (682) and Brevard (747) round out the 11-team field.
Newberry's Nabila Inak (147), who is the only golfer in the field to break par in the first two rounds with 1-under-par 71 on Monday, enters Tuesday's final round with a one-shot lead on Queens' Grace Glaze (148), as both golfers moved up from a tie for fourth place. Carson-Newman's Taylor Hayes (150) topped the field on Sunday, but slipped to third and trails Inak by three shots.
Aided by a birdie on No. 15, Poole (163) trimmed five strokes off her first-round effort and shares the 21st spot. Sophomore Riley Lovorn (165) is in a three-way tie for 27th, while freshman Tiffany Elam (168) slashed six strokes from the first round and is tied for 39th. Senior Braiden Furtick shares a five-way tie for 42nd with a two-day 170 and freshman Blake Hodges is five shots further back with a two-day 175.
The final round of the championship is slated to start at 8:30 a.m. Tuesday, with Hodges leading off for the Trojans at 9:15 a.m.
8 Anderson 332 332 664
T21 Makalyn Poole 84 79 163
T27 Riley Lovorn 79 86 165
T39 Tiffany Elam 87 81 168
T42 Braiden Furtick 84 86 170
49 Blake Hodges 85 90 175
1 2 Team Scores
T3 1 Queen's, Univ. of Charlotte 320 305 625 +49
T1 2 Carson-Newman 312 319 631 +55
5 3 Newberry College 325 312 637 +61
T1 4 Lincoln Memorial 312 326 638 +62
T3 5 Wingate 320 319 639 +63
T8 6 Tusculum College 332 320 652 +76
6 7 Coker College 330 330 660 +84
T8 8 Anderson 332 332 664 +88
7 9 Lenoir-Rhyne 331 336 667 +91
10 10 Mars Hill College 352 330 682 +106
11 11 Brevard College 359 388 747 +171
