Tulsa’s Lorena Tseng wins medalist honors at ICON Invitational

THE WOODLANDS, Texas –– Tulsa sophomore Lorena Tseng won her second career tournament on Tuesday after scoring a 5-under par 67 in final round action for a 7-under par 209 total at the 54-hole ICON Invitational.

The Hurricane women moved up three spots into 7^th place from Monday to end the tournament with an identical score to yesterday’s 286 second round total, thus finishing the event at The Woodlands Country Club Tournament Course with an a score of 875. Unranked Tulsa finished ahead of No. 20-ranked Virginia Tech, No. 23 Texas Tech and No.32 Houston.

Tseng sat two strokes out of first place at the start of the day. After going 1-over par through her first 4 holes, holes 7 through 11 in the shotgun start, Tseng birdied 5 of her next 8 holes for a 4-under score going into her 13th hole, which was Hole No. 1.  She shot even-par for 5 straight holes before ending the round with her 6^th birdie of the day on the par-5, 548-yard 6^th hole.

The victory marks Tseng’s 5^th top-10 finish this year and her first career win since a 13-under par score last season at the Las Vegas Collegiate Showdown.

Playing as an individual, sophomore Jasmine Zhang had a final round 76 for a 35^th place total of 221.

Fellow sophomore Sammy Liu shot a 2-over par 74 for a 39^th place score of 222, while freshman Lilly Thomas was one stroke back with a 223 score for 43^rd place. Thomas turned in Tulsa’s second-best round of the day with a 1-under par 71.

Junior Taylor Dobson scored a round of 74 for a 225 total for 49^th place and fellow junior Haley Greb placed 68^th with a score of 234. 

Kent State claimed the team title with a three-round score of 10-under par 854.

Tulsa is in action next at the Mountain View Collegiate, March 20-22, in Tucson, Arizona.

TEAM RESULTS

1.        Kent State                         290-287-277=854

2.        Purdue                                289-288-284=861

3.        Texas A&M                       291-290-283=864

4.        Texas                                   286-293-287=866

5.        TCU                                      296-282-294=872

6.        North Texas                      299-287-287=873

7.        Tulsa                                    303-286-286=875

8.        Houston                             289-296-291=876

9.        Texas Tech                        297-292-291=880

10.      Virginia Tech                    301-293-288=882

11.      SMU                                    302-296-285=883

12.      Kennesaw State              304-291-300=895

13.      UTSA                                   296-304-299=899

14.      Texas State                       306-300-301=907    

TULSA INDIVIDUALS

1.        Lorena Tseng                    72-70-67=209

T39.   Sammy Liu                        78-70-74=222

T43.   Lilly Thomas                      77-75-71=223

T49.   Taylor Dobson                 79-72-74=225

68.      Haley Greb                        76-74-84=234

*T35. Jasmine Zhang                 71-74-76=221

TOP-5 INDIVIDUALS

[if !supportLists]1.       [endif]Lorena Tseng, Tulsa                           72-70-67=209 (-7)

[if !supportLists]2.       [endif]Sifat Sagoo, Purdue                           71-71-68=210 (-6)

[if !supportLists]3.       [endif]Caley McGinty, Kent State              69-74-68=211 (-5)

[if !supportLists]4.       [endif]Pimnipa Panthong, Kent State       74-70-68=212 (-4)

T5.  Chloe Salort, Kent State                   72-72-69=213 (-3)

T5.  Sophie Guo, Texas                              70-70-73=213 (-3)