Eatonton, Ga. – Elizabeth Lohbauer matched her opening-round 2-over par 74 on Saturday to climb four positions to inside the individual Top 10 through 36 holes, pacing Western Carolina women's golf at the Reynolds Lake Oconee Invitational at the par-72, 6,107-yard Great Waters Golf Club. WCU slipped into 10th place in the team standings but is just seven strokes outside the top five overall.
 
Paired with golfers from Cincinnati and South Dakota State, WCU's scoring five hits the course for the final round at 10 a.m. on Sunday with a shotgun start. The Catamount quintet will be scattered between holes No. 10 and No. 13. Live scoring of Sunday's final round is available through GolfStat with a link online at CatamountSports.com.
 
Lohbauer countered three consecutive bogeys between holes No. 12 through No. 14 with back-to-back birdies on the par-4 16th and par-3 17th to make the turn for home at 1-over par. The Venice, Fla., product bounced back from a double-bogey on the par-4 fifth with her third birdie of the day two holes later to match her first-round 74.
 
Sophomore Brie Mapano held her spot in a five-way tie for 25th with a two-day score of 153 after carding 77 on Saturday. The Aussie-born striker opened her round with a birdie on the par-4 10th before battling through four bogeys and one double. Fifth-year senior Victoria Ladd slid 32 spots into 57th after a second-round 83. Ladd turned to the front nine at 3-over with six pars and a trio of bogeys before moving to 2-over with a birdie on the par-5 second. However, she closed the day with three bogeys and three double-bogeys.
 
Rounding out WCU's scoring five are redshirt junior Kayleigh Baker in a tie for 65th at 162 and junior Kaitlin Wingnean up five spots into 76th with WCU's third-lowest second-round score at 6-over par 78. Baker charted 11 pars on Saturday while Wingnean carded 12 pars with a birdie to counter a trio of bogeys and two double-bogeys.
 
Playing unattached as an individual, sophomore Sadler Miller dropped six strokes off her second-round score to climb 16 total positions in the standings into a tie for 54th after 36 holes. Miller opened on the back nine with eight pars before three-straight bogeys after the turn for the 4-over par round.
 
Tournament host Mercer continues to lead the 14-team field, firing a second-round score of 289 to build a 10-stroke cushion over second-place Western Kentucky which advanced two spots, 583-to-593. Chattanooga is third with a team score of 601 with Delaware (608) slipping into fourth and Daytona State College advancing three positions to round out the top five teams.
 
WKU's Addie Westbrook carded the tournament's lone round in the 60s on Saturday, shooting 4-under par 68 to move nine slots to tie Mercer's Mikayla Dubnik atop the individual leaderboard through two rounds at 2-under par 142. Camilia Jarvela of Mercer is third a stroke in arrears at 143.
 
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10 – Western Carolina – 306 – 311 = 617 ()
T6 – Elizabeth Lohbauer – 74 – 74 = 148 (+4)
T25 – Brie Mapanao – 76 – 77 = 153 (+9)
57 – Victoria Ladd – 76 – 83 = 159 (+15)
T65 – Kayleigh Baker – 80 – 82 = 162 (+18)
76 – Kaitlyn Wingnean – 90 – 78 = 168 (+24)
T54 – Sadler Miller (ind.) – 82 – 76 = 158 (+14)