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Nena Wongthanavimok - RALEIGH, N.C. -- Women’s Golf competes in day two of the 2023 NCAA Women’s Golf Championships at Lonnie Poole Golf Course.
May 9, 2023. 
Photo by Tim Cowie / Arizona Athletics
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Wongthanavimok Fires Second Consecutive 68 to Lead Cats

FRANKLIN, Tenn. – Sophomore Nena Wongthanavimok followed up her opening round of  68 by shooting 4-under par again on Saturday to lead the Wildcats. Wongthanavimok sits in a tie for second place at 8-under after the first two rounds of the Mason Rudolph Championship. Arizona Women's Golf enters Sunday's final round in eighth place at 3-under.

"Congratulations to Nena for playing another great round for us," said head coach Laura Ianello. "She is playing at a high level as well as some of the best golf of her career. We were not as strong as whole as I would have liked to see us today, but that's how tournaments and elite competition can go. We will have to come out on Sunday and shoot better scores as a team and see if Nena can pull out a big win on the individual side."

Wongthanavimok's round on Saturday was nearly flawless with five birdies, one bogey and 12 pars. She sits in a five-way tie for second place in a pack of golfers chasing tournament leader Andrea Lignell of Ole Miss at 10-under par. The sophomore from Bangkok, Thailand has been at her best on Vanderbilt Legends Club's par 4's with a score of 6-under, trailing only Lignell by one stroke in that statistical category.

Arizona has a second golfer in the top 25 after graduate senior Gile Bite Starkute shot a 73 on Saturday following a 69 on Friday. The Lithuanian golfer sits in a tie for 21st at 2-under entering Sunday's finale.

The Wildcats will tee off alongside South Carolina and Kentucky in Sunday's final round, beginning at 6:09 a.m. (MST).
 
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Players Mentioned

Gile Bite Starkute

Gile Bite Starkute

5' 8"
Fifth Year
Nena Wongthanavimok

Nena Wongthanavimok

5' 4"
Sophomore

Players Mentioned

Gile Bite Starkute

Gile Bite Starkute

5' 8"
Fifth Year
Nena Wongthanavimok

Nena Wongthanavimok

5' 4"
Sophomore
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