Fassi, Kim continue good play; team moves to third at SEC Championship

HOOVER, Ala. — Arkansas juniors Maria Fassi and Dylan Kim continued to play well helping the third-ranked Razorbacks move up two spots into third place after day two action at the 2018 SEC Women’s Golf Championship in Hoover, Alabama, on Thursday.

Fassi posted her second consecutive 2-under 70 and is 4-under for the tournament at 140. She is in second place with one round remaining in stroke play action.

Kim is in third place shooting 70-73=143 and is in striking distance of the lead.

Their strong play helped Arkansas to the third-best round of the day with a 5-over 293. No. 20 South Carolina leads the field shooting 291-291=582.

Second-ranked Alabama is next with a 286-304=590, followed by No. 3 Arkansas who is in the clubhouse with scores of 299-293=592.

The rest of the top five includes No. 44 Georgia at 596 and No. 13 Florida with 599.

Arkansas will pair with South Carolina and Alabama in Friday’s final round of stroke play. The top eight teams will move on to the match play portion of the tournament on Saturday and Sunday.

Fassi led the team with five birdies on Thursday including carding a four on the par-5 18th hole to finish 2-under.

She played the back nine 3-under and birdied holes six and 12 for the second consecutive day.

Kim birdied holes three and seven but counted three bogeys on the back nine. She rallied to finish with four consecutive par holes and remain near the top of the leaderboard.

Senior Alana Uriell provided a big boost to the Arkansas scoring while moving up 23 spots on day two of the championship.

Uriell is tied for 23 after shaving seven shots off of her round one score coming in with an even-par 72. She is plus-7 with a 151 (79-72). Junior Kaylee Benton also moved up in the standings and its tied for 56th shooting 81-78=159. Junior Cara Gorlei rounds out the Razorback scoring. Gorlei is 58th with rounds of 80-80=160.

From Shauna Taylor

This is a championship golf course and today we stuck to our game-plan and were rewarded for it.

The winds are so unpredictable, always changing, but we did a better job today of figuring out where to be to have success.

We have put ourselves in position to reach our goals this week There is a lot of golf still to be played so we have to focus on our plan and executing it.

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