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Women's Golf Takes Second At TRW Regional Challenge
February 09, 2000 | Women's Golf
Feb. 9, 2000
PALOS VERDES, Calif. -- Freshman Candie Kung fired a one-under-par 70 in each of the final two rounds on her way to a career-low score of 213 to help lead the No. 3 USC's women's golf team to a second-place showing at the fifth annual TRW Regional Challenge hosted by Southern Methodist and Ohio State at Palos Verdes (Calif.) Golf Club on Monday-Wednesday (Feb. 7-9).
USC shot 879 and finished 10 strokes behind top-ranked Arizona (869). The Women of Troy now have three runner-up finishes in 1999-2000 and have placed no worse than fourth in the five tournaments they have played this season. Stanford and Georgia tied for third (894), while Pepperdine was fifth (896).
Individually, Kung finished tied for second with Miriam Nagl of Arizona State -- just one stroke behind overall winner Shauna Estes of Georgia. Her performance ties her with former Trojan Jennifer Biehn for the third-lowest 54-hole score in Women of Troy history. Junior Nicole Dalkas also shot a career-low -- her score of 216, aided by a career-best and USC season-low 68 second round, put her in sixth place at the tourney's end. Sophomore Leila Chartrand finished tied for 13th (222), while freshman Yon Yim (232) and senior Linda Ishii (234) finished 34th and 56th, respectively.
The Trojans also won the regional portion of the tournament and earned an automatic invite to the 2001 TRW Challenge.
USC next travels to Tucson, Ariz., to take part in the Arizona Wildcat Invitational on Feb. 21-23.
