Oregon women’s golf comes up just shy of Stanford in NCAA Championship match

Oregon girls’s golf got here up simply shy of Stanford within the NCAA Championship match.

The highest-seeded Cardinal edged the No. 2 seed Geese, 3-2, within the NCAA Championship match Wednesday afternoon at Grayhawk Golf Membership in Scottsdale, Arizona.

“Upset, however but on the identical time so proud,” Oregon coach Derek Radley stated in a launch. “We didn’t play good golf to start with. Within the begin of this I believe we have been a bit of timid, only for the second. Nevertheless, I by no means depend my Geese out. Man, did we give it a run on the finish.”

Tied after three, Stanford’s Brooke Seay took command in opposition to Oregon’s Ching-Tzu Chen within the first pairing of the match. Seay went up three after seven and up 5 after 12 holes in a 4 and three win.

Aline Krauter dominated UO’s Hsin-Yu Lu, taking a six gap lead after eight and cruised to a 5 and three win.

Oregon’s Briana Chacon trailed Stanford’s Sadie Englemann by one on the flip and so they went back-and-forth in the course of the again 9. Chacon received the seventeenth and 18th to win the match.

“General, that is actually good for us and it’s gonna make us higher for subsequent 12 months,” Chacon stated in an announcement. “And gonna gentle a bit of bit of fireside in our bellies, and make us work more durable as a staff all collectively. So I believe that’s gonna be actually good for subsequent 12 months.”

UO’s Tze-Han (Heather) Lin by no means trailed Rachel Heck and led by one by means of eight holes. Lin received the 14th and fifteenth in a 3 and a pair of win to even the general match at 2 apiece.

“I really feel like my objective greatest objective this week was simply to offer it all the things I’ve, no regrets,” stated Lin, UO’s lone senior. “And I believe I completed that, I might say.”

Within the deciding last pairing, Stanford’s Rose Zhang received the firs three holes and maintained that benefit over Oregon’s Sofie Kibsgaard Nielsen after 11. Nielsen received the twelfth and 14th to get inside one, however misplaced the fifteenth and seventeenth in a 3 and 1 win for the Zhang, who received the NCAA particular person title on Monday.