Athens, Ga. – Sophomore Elsa Maren Steinarsdôttir gained 16 spots in the individual standings on Sunday as Western Carolina women's golf saw all five players improve upon their second-round scores at the 54th annual Liz Murphey Collegiate Classic. Steinarsdôttir moved into a tie for 32nd overall to lead the Catamounts after 36 holes at the par-72, 6,217-yard University of Georgia Golf Course.
 
The tournament concludes on Monday with an 8:30 a.m. shotgun start. WCU's scoring five is paired with golfers from Jacksonville State and five individual competitors, and opens Monday's round with two groups on holes No. 7 and No. 9, and one off of hole No. 8.
 
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Steinarsdôttir carded a pair of birdies among her first four holes on Sunday to play the opening six holes at 1-under par. Bogeys on two of her final three holes on the front side relegated her to 1-over par when she made the turn. The Icelandic-born striker was strong on the back nine, posting eight pars with just one bogey to finish the day at 2-over par, 74, for a two-round total of 152.
 
Senior Sadler Miller (157) is tied for 65th, with graduate transfer EC Niebauer (159) in a tie for 68th, just two strokes apart through 36 holes. Miller has a team-high 23 pars through the first two rounds, carding 12 in round two after posting 11 on Saturday. Niebauer settled after a 6-over par start through her opening six holes on Sunday, playing the final 12 at just 1- over par with the only blemish coming on a double-bogey on the par-3 16th, improving to shoot 79 in the second round.
 
Rounding out WCU's lineup were sophomore Annalee Caveney, up three spots into a tie for 73rd after knocking seven strokes off her second-round score, and classmate Emily Rosenschein in 87th overall with a five-stroke improvement in day two for a total of 171.
 
Caveney was five strokes better on the front nine and had a two-stroke improvement on the back, carding her first birdie of the tournament on her 36th hole of the event on the par-5, 488-yard 18th. Rosenschein made her jump on the back nine, cutting four strokes thanks to a string of five-consecutive pars between holes No. 13 and 17.
 
Event host Georgia climbed atop the team leaderboard on Sunday with a tournament-low round of 4-under par, 284, in the second round to grab a 12-stroke lead over second-place Rutgers, 577 to 589. Florida Gulf Coast (593) was just four strokes behind the Bulldogs with a second-round 288 to climb six positions into third place with 18 holes to play, while first-round leader, High Point, slid three spots into fourth at 596, a stroke clear of the fifth-place tie between Western Kentucky and Penn State at 597.
 
First-round individual leader, Trinity Beth of Georgia, extended her lead by two strokes, carrying a four-stroke edge over Old Dominion's Barbara Car. Beth fired rounds of 66 and 69 for a two-round total of 135, with Car trimming a stroke off her first-round 70 with a 69 for a two-day total of 139. Kiara Sionkova of James Madison rounds out the podium, five strokes off the pace with a two-round score of 140, with individuals Molly McLean of South Carolina and Indiana's Saia Rampersaud rounding out the top five at 141.
 
The tournament concludes with the third round on Monday, with an 8:30 a.m. shotgun start.
 
14 – Western Carolina – 321 – 308 = 629 (+53)
T32 – Elsa Maren Steinarsdôttir – 78-74 = 152 (+8)
T65 – Sadler Miller – 79-78 = 157 (+13)
T68 – EC Niebauer – 80-79 = 159 (+15)
T73 – Annalee Caveney – 84-77 = 161 (+17)
87 – Emily Rosenschein – 88-83 = 171 (+27)