Oregon State
Silverado Showdown
Beavs Finish Second, Yoo Ties School Record
April 14, 2015 | Women's Golf
NAPA, Calif. – The Oregon State women's golf team continued its strong play with a second-place finish at the Silverado Showdown on Tuesday and Anica Yoo tied her own school record with a 4-under 68 in the final round.
The Beavers shot a 26-over 308-293-289--890 at the par-72, 6,253-yard North Course at the Silverado Resort and Spa to finish second and only one stroke behind Oregon, which won the team title with a 25-over 299-290-300--889. Oregon State finished ahead of five teams ranked in golfstat.com's top 50, including Pac-12 rivals Colorado and California.
The 1-over 289 by the Beavers in the final round was tops of the day in the 15-team field and the third-best single-round score in school history, behiind only a 5-under 283 at the Westbrook Spring Invitational in 2014 and a 2-under 282 at the Stanford Intercollegiate in 2011.
| 2 | Oregon State | 308 | 293 | 289 | 890 |
| T3 | Anica Yoo (2) | 74 | 78 | 68 | 220 |
| T5 | Krissy Peterson (4) | 74 | 71 | 76 | 221 |
| T26 | Ashlee Pickerell (1) | 78 | 77 | 72 | 227 |
| T29 | Hannah Swanson (5) | 84 | 71 | 73 | 228 |
| T45 | Chelsea Saelee (3) | 82 | 74 | 76 | 232 |
The Beavers return to action next week at the Pac-12 Championship, which will be held Monday, April 20 through Wednesday, April 23 in Boulder, Colo.
“I couldn't be more proud of the team today in round three and how they continued to play well and fight and play hard for each other and their teammates and their coaches,” Oregon State head coach Sammie Chergo said. “They represented Oregon State with a lot of grit and a competitive spirit. Those are the things that both Dawn (Shockley) and I ask of them every day.
“We came up one shot short against Oregon, but the second-place finish I think is one of the best finishes this program has had in a while. I think it shows the dedication and the buy-in and the hard work of our student-athletes. It was a real team effort. All five players had great rounds when we needed them and a big piece of the puzzle in our second-place finish.
“We look forward to carrying this momentum into next week at the Pac-12's and, like I've been saying the last couple of months, I think every single day this team is getting better. Dawn and I both very much appreciate their hard work and we look forward to learning from what we did today.”
Yoo, a senior from Port Coquitlam, British Columbia, shot a 4-under 68 for the second time this season to equal the school record for the lowest single-round score. She had five birdies and only one bogey in the final round to help her finish the tourney in a tie for third place with a 4-over 74-78-68--220.
Oregon State Lowest Single-Round Individual Scores
68 (-4) -- Anica Yoo -- Silverado Showdown (Spring 2015)
68 (-4) -- Anica Yoo -- Westbrook Spring Invitational (Spring 2015)
68 (-4) -- Lauren Sewell -- Westbrook Spring Invitational (Spring 2014)
68 (-4) -- Martha Burkard -- Heath Farr Memorial (Fall 2007)
68 (-4) -- Leah Whiting -- Pac-10 Championships (Spring 2006)
68 (-4) -- Andrea Hehn -- Stanford Intercollegiate (Fall 1997)
Sophomore Krissy Peterson notched her best career finish, a tie for fifth place, after finishing with an impressive 5-over 74-71-76--221. The 1-under 71 in the second round was a career low and the 5-over 221 was also a career best, bettering the 7-over 223 she shot at both the Oregon State Invitational and Westbrook Spring Invitational earlier this season.
Junior Ashlee Pickerell made a jump up the leaderboard by closing with a solid even-par 72. She narrowly missed out on a second straight top-20 showing by finishing with an 11-over 78-77-72--227 for a tie for 26th place. Pickerell finished in a tie for 19th place at the Beavers' last tournament, the Anuenue Spring Break Classic in Hawai'i.
After opening the tournament with a 12-over 84, freshman Hannah Swanson played even-par golf over the next two rounds to climb into a tie for 29th place. She fired a career-best 1-under 71 in the second round and followed that with a 1-over 73 on Tuesday to post her best three-round score at Oregon State, a 12-over 228.
Junior Chelsea Saelee also bounced back after a rough start to finish in a tie for 45th place with a 16-over 82-74-76--232.
Peterson led the 78-player field with 11 birdies and Swanson added 10. The Beavers had a team-high 37 birdies over the three days, six more than Harvard.
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