BLOOMINGTON, Ind. – Freshman Danielle Lemek (Doniphan, Neb./Doniphan-Trumbull) ran her streak of consecutive rounds in the 70's to 10 with scores of 78 and 76 Saturday and is tied for 16th, while the Bradley women's golf team finished the opening day of the Indiana Invitational in 10th.
The Braves carded rounds of 315 and 317 Saturday at the par-72 Indiana University Golf Course and head into Sunday's final round just five shots out of the top six in the 15-team field.
Lemek continued her strong play with scores of 78 and 76 to close the opening day tied for 16th at 154. She is three shots out of the top eight in the 85-person field and tied the Bradley record for sub-80 rounds by a freshman with her 26th round in the 70's. She is one sub-80 round from matching Kelly Amundrud's school season record of 27 rounds in the 70's set during the 2010-11 season.
Fellow freshman Jenna Roadley (Winnipeg, Manitoba/Sturgeon Heights) turned in the top score for the Braves in the morning with a five-over 77 and fired an 80 in the afternoon to finish Saturday three shots behind Lemek in a tie for 25th at 157.
Sophomore Thea Hedemann (Saskatoon, Saskatchewan/Walter Murray) returned to the lineup after withdrawing from the final two rounds of last week's Bradley Invitational to card rounds of 81 and 79. She is tied for 38th overall at 160.
Freshman Allison Walsh (Mt. Prospect, Ill./Mt. Prospect) is tied for 44th at 162, after rounds of 80 and 82, while sophomore Christie Lin (Calgary, Alberta/Sir John G Diefenbaker) is tied for 59th at 165 to round out the team scoring for BU. Lin matched Walsh's opening-round 80, before shooting a second-round 85.
Tournament-host Indiana is one of three teams ranked in the top 100 according to Golfweek.com in the field and has a five-shot lead after turning in a 36-hole score of 595. Kansas is second in the standings at 600, with Toledo a distant third at 616. Eastern Michigan finished Saturday in fourth (620), while Ball State rounded out the top five at 625.
IUPUI is two shots back in sixth (627) and Missouri Valley Conference foe Illinois State is four shots ahead of the Braves in seventh at 628. Akron is eighth (629) and Bradley is two back of ninth-place Dayton (630). The Braves are 10th overall at 632 and hold a three-shot edge on 11th-place Southern Illinois (635). Indiana's second team is 12th at 656, with Valparaiso (13th – 657), Evansville (14th – 661) and Drake (15th – 665), completing the field, respectively.
Bradley finishes out action at the Indiana Invitational Sunday with one round of play starting at 7:30 a.m. (CDT).
