SVENSSON, WONG CARRY UCA TO RECORD-SETTING WIN

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KYLE, Texas _ Junior Emma Svensson earned medalist honors and led the University of Central Arkansas women's golf team to a record-setting nine-stroke victory Tuesday at the Texas State Invitational at Plum Creek Golf Course.

    Svensson, from Halmstad, Sweden, shot rounds of 76-68-67 to finish with a season-low 2-under 211, edging out freshman teammate Geraldine Wong for first place. Wong, from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, shot 69-74-69 for a career-best 1-under 212 to finish second by two strokes over Houston Baptist's Kaity Cummings.

    As a team, UCA shot 297-293-282 for an 872, beating UTSA by nine strokes. The teams finished Monday's suspended second round on Tuesday morning prior to the final round. UCA's final two rounds were the best scores of the day, with the 282 third round setting a school record for lowest round. The 872 total tied the UCA school record for a three-round tournament.

    UCA senior Fernanda Lira shot 75-74-74_223 to finished tied for 18th place. Junior Sally Fridstrom was 30th (79-77-72_228) and freshman Brett Permann tied for 40th place (77-78-76_231).

    UTSA finished second (881), followed by Houston Baptist (884), Texas State (892), Georgia Southern (894), Lamar (900), UTEP (901), James Madison (905), Arkansas State (912), North Dakota State (917), ULM and UT Arlington (926), UT Rio Grande Valley (933), Texas A&M-Corpus Christi (938), Stephen F. Austin (942), McNeese State (948) and Little Rock (953).

    UCA competes next on March 5-6 at the University of North Carolina-Wilmington's River Landing Classic in Wallace, N.C.

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