March 14, 2010
Day Two 
Day One
Hilton Head, S.C. - First-round leader Western Carolina put three golfers inside the top 10 and held off hard-charging James Madison over Sunday's final round to win the 2010 Low Country Intercollegiate held on the South Course of the par 72, 5,814-yard Moss Creek Golf Club. Natalie Wille from Augusta State claimed her first career individual medalist honors, scoring a birdie on the third hole of a playoff to claim the crown.
Western Carolina claimed its fourth team championship of the season and it's first since claiming three-consecutive titles to open the fall season. The Catamounts, which brought a five-stroke lead into Sunday's final round, carded a two-day total of 616 to edge James Madison by two strokes at 618. Augusta State (619) finished third, three strokes in arrears, with Jacksonville (625) and Richmond (635) rounding out the top five.
Wille and Richmond's Jillian Fraccola finished the regulation 36-holes tied atop the individual leader board at five-over, 149, setting up the playoff to determine the individual champion. The duo each recorded par over the first two holes of the extra session, doing so in dramatic fashion on the first hole. Fraccola hit into a hazard on her second shot, but chipped to within a foot to save par while also applying pressure to Wille, who flew the green and then chipped to within 25-feet of the cup.
After Fraccola scored the par, Wille drained a 25-foot putt on the fast greens to continue the playoff.
On what proved to be the final hole, Wille stuck the green within two feet of the cup from over 150 yards out. Not to be outdone, Fraccola nearly duplicated the shot, coming within four feet of the pin from 130 yards away. Fraccola just missed her birdie putt, tapping in for par, while Wille - with her parents in attendance from Sweden - sank the two-footer to claim the championship.
Team runner-up James Madison had both Mary Chamberlain and Nicole Sakamoto finish tied for third along with Blaire Minter from Western Carolina and Alex Rankin of Wofford to round out the top individual finishers. The foursome each shot seven-over, 151, in the event.
Minter, who was tied for the individual lead after Saturday's opening round, paced the Catamounts by finishing in the four-way tie for third. The Marietta, Ga., native shot 77 in the final round to finish with a 151 for the event. Junior Josefine Sundh shot 78 on Sunday and finished tied with senior teammate, Desiree Karlsson, at 153 in a two-way tie for eighth, giving WCU three inside the top 10.
Freshman Malin Jansson shot 79 and 80 over the two days in the low country to finish tied for 18th (159) while senior Tiffany Schisler trimmed seven strokes off her opening round 87 to shoot 81 on the final 18 holes for a two-day total of 168 in 49th place.
WCU led the tournament with 15 birdies over the two-day event, also tallying 100 par scores, third amongst the 14 teams. Augusta State carded a combined 106 pars to lead the way.
Western Carolina returns to action on March 21-23 at the Pinehurst Intercollegiate, hosted by the College of Charleston at the Pinehurst #6.
