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Cougars beat Pepperdine and Baylor at SDSU March Mayhem
By Alexa Anderson, Sports Information Director at Brigham Young University
SAN DIEGO — BYU women’s golf beat Pepperdine in a tiebreaker in the final round of the round-robin match-play bracket at the SDSU March Mayhem tournament on Wednesday.
“There are a lot of positives to take away from this event,” BYU head coach Carrie Roberts said. “It was a really great effort today. The girls showed a lot of resiliency and toughness throughout their matches.”
The Cougars competed against West Coast Conference foe Pepperdine on Wednesday, winning a tiebreaker with a 6-3 margin of victory. Kendra Dalton won her match against Tatiana Wijaya 5&4 and Rose Huang won the last two holes against Momoka Kobori to win her match 1 up.
Pepperdine’s Hira Naveed topped freshman Naomi Soifua and Annie Yang lost to Patricia Wong 2&1. Anna Kennedy won four of her last five holes on Wednesday to halve her match today, finishing all-square against Hannah Haythorne.
Dalton finished the week winning all of her matches. In addition to her win on Wednesday, she defeated Emily Wang of Stanford on Monday 1 up, and won against Baylor’s Laila Hrindova 4&3 on Tuesday. Huang also won all three of her head-to-head match ups, beating Stanford’s Shannon Aubert 2 up and Fiona Liddell of Baylor 1 up.
As a team, BYU lost to Stanford on Monday 3-2, but bounced back with a 3-2 team victory against Baylor on Tuesday. USC claimed the overall match-play tournament victory, beating Texas 5-0 in Wednesday’s final round.
The Cougars will travel to Texas to compete in the North Texas Invitational April 2-3.
BYU def. Pepperdine in tiebreaker – Marh 28, 2018
BYU
Pepperdine
5&4*
Kendra Dalton
Tatiana Wijaya
1 UP*
Rose Huang
Momoka Kobori
1 UP
Naomi Soifua
Hira Naveed
AS*
Anna Kennedy
Hannah Haythorne
2&1
Annie Yang
Patricia Wong
Wins*
BYU def. Baylor 3-2 – March 27, 2018
BYU
Baylor
4&3*
Kendra Dalton
Laila Hrindova
1 UP*
Rose Huang
Fiona Liddell
3&1
Naomi Soifua
Diane Baillieux
1 UP
Anna Kennedy
Amy Lee
2&1*
Annie Yang
Marie Vesga
Wins*
Stanford def. BYU 3-2 – March 26, 2018
BYU
Stanford
1 UP*
Kendra Dalton
Emily Wang
3&2
Naomi Soifua
Kelsey Zeng
2 UP*
Rose Huang
Shannon Aubert
2&1
Anna Kennedy
Mika Liu
5&4
Annie Yang
Andrea Lee
Wins*
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