Statesboro, Ga. – Western Carolina women's golf carded a two-round score of 632 on Monday, and the Catamounts enter Tuesday's final 18 holes in 13th place overall in the squad's first three-round event of the season at The Southern, hosted by Georgia Southern at the par-72, 6,316-yard Forest Heights Country Club.
 
Tournament play concludes on Tuesday with an 8:30 a.m. shotgun start. The Catamount scoring five opens between holes No. 16-18, paired with golfers from Georgia State. Live scoring through Golf Genius is available online through a link at CatamountSports.com.
 
Catamount senior Sadler Miller posted rounds of 4-over par 76 and 2-over par 74 to sit amidst a four-way tie for 24th with a 36-hole score of 150 following Monday's opening two rounds. The Clayton, N.C., product charted nine birdies on Monday – four over the first  18 holes and five in the second round.
 
Graduate transfer EC  Niebauer is just three strokes in arrears in a three-way tie for 34th with a two-round total of 153. The High Point product cut seven strokes off an opening-round 80 to card the team's lowest round of the day at 1-over par 73. After carding just one birdie over the opening 18 holes, Niebauer recorded four in the second round.
 
Rounding out the Catamount lineup are sophomore transfer Elsa Maren Steinarsdôttir in a tie for 63rd at 163 (80-83), sophomore Annalee Caveney in 68th at 166 (81-85), and sophomore transfer Emily Rosenschein in 70th with a score of 171 (86-85).
 
With three individuals among the Top Five after two rounds, Eastern Michigan comfortably leads the field by 21 strokes as the Eagles shot 568 on Monday. EMU leads a trio of avian schools atop the leader board with the Florida Gulf Coast Eagles (589) and host Georgia Southern Eagles (594). Sun Belt schools James Madison (599) and Georgia State (600) round out the top five in the standings.
 
Janae Leovao of Eastern Michigan carries a two-stroke lead over a two-way tie for the runner-up spot between her teammate Erina Tan and Georgia State's TK Kongthong after 36 of the scheduled 54 holes. Leovao posted rounds of 1-under 71 and 2-under par 70 for an opening day tally of 141. Tan and Kongthong are two strokes off the pace at 143, with Tan blistering the second round with a tournament-low round of 5-under par 67 to vault up the leaderboard.
 
The tournament concludes Tuesday with an 8:30 a.m. shotgun start in Statesboro, Ga.
 
13 – Western Carolina – 317 – 315 = 632 (+56)
T24 – Sadler Miller – 76-74 = 150 (+6)
T34 – EC Niebauer – 80-73  = 153 (+9)
T63 – Elsa Maren Steinarsdôttir – 80-83 = 163 (+19)
68 – Annalee Caveney – 81-85 = 166 (+22)
70 – Emily Rosenschein – 86-85 = 171 (+27)