WILLIAMSBURG, Va. – Sophomore Toral Bhatt and first-year Kelsey Sciacca both shot 2-over or better on Tuesday to help the No. 10 Washington and Lee women's golf team close the fall season with a sixth-place finish at the NCAA Preview.
 
COURSE STATS:

• Kingsmill Resort – River Course
• Par 72 | 5,731 Yards
• Round 1 Average Score: 81.52 (75 Rounds)
• Round 2 Average Score: 82.03 (75 Rounds)
• Total Average Score: 81.77 (150 Rounds)

FINAL TEAM AND INDIVIDUAL LEADERS:

• Top-ranked Emory moved up two spots with a second-round 5-over (293) to win the team title at 18-over par (594). No. 2 NYU took second place with a 23-over (299-300—599), while No. 3 Carnegie Mellon placed third two strokes behind the Violets.
• Amanda Zheng (Emory) and Yixuan Chen (CMU) tied atop the individual leaderboard. Both shot 2-over on Monday and 3-under on Tuesday. Amy Beanblossom (WashU) and Carys Code (Emory) tied for third at 2-over across the 36 holes.
• The Generals came in sixth place as a team at 37-over (613). After an opening round 21-over on Monday, W&L improved by five strokes on Tuesday to move up one spot in the standings. They finished one shot behind ODAC rival Randolph-Macon for fifth.

W&L ROUND 2 PLAYER SUMMARIES:

• Bhatt turned in a second-round 2-over (74) to tie for fourth place on the individual leaderboard (+3). Bhatt carded three birdies on the day and was even on the back nine.
• Sciacca moved up in the standings the most among all players in the field, using an even par (72) to shoot up 27 spots and into a tie for 14th (+8). Sciacca sank a team-high five birdies on Tuesday, including a hole-out on 18 from about 50 yards.
• Sophomore Morgan Maddox was 8-over (80) in the second round to tie for 31st overall (+13). Maddox excelled on the front nine, shooting even par (37), which included three straight birdies on Holes 2-4.
• Sophomore Bella Scucchi had the third-best second round for W&L to round out the team scoring. She closed her round on a high note by birdieing two of her final three holes to shoot an even-par 37 on the front nine. Scucchi was 18-over (84-78—162) for the tournament.
• Sophomore Mackenzie Cline completed the Generals' lineup at 12-over (84) for the day and 19-over for the tournament. Cline was one of three Generals to birdie the par-5 ninth hole.

INSIDE THE NUMBERS:

• The Generals' improvement from the first to second rounds was attributed to sinking 14 birdies on Tuesday compared to only seven on Monday. That helped W&L finish fourth in birdies (21) as well as pars (99).
• W&L recorded the fourth-best par-3 average (3.13) for the tournament, fifth-best par-4 average (4.45) and ninth-best par-5 average (5.28).
• Maddox (2.75) finished second in the field in par-3 scoring, while Scucchi tied for second in par-5 average (4.75). Bhatt and Sciacca both tied for third in par-3 scoring (2.88) and tied for fifth in par-4 average (4.20).
• Sciacca's five second-round birdies led her to tying for fourth-most for the tournament (7). Bhatt tied for the most pars (26) with Emory's Carys Code.

UP NEXT:
The Generals will pick their season back up at the Savannah Invitational on March 8-9 at The Club at Savannah harbor.
 

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