May 8, 1999

BLYTHEWOOD, S.C. - North Carolina and Wake Forest tied for ninth place at 914 total at the NCAA Women's Golf East Regional, missing the cut by just two strokes. The top eight teams, including Duke and Florida State, advanced to the NCAA Championships in Tulsa, Okla., in two weeks.

Georgia won the team title with an 884 total, just one stroke ahead of Furman which finished with an 885. Louisiana State placed third at 893 while Duke was fourth at 894 and Florida State finished fifth at 901.

It marked the second straight year that the Deacs missed the NCAA cut by just one place after having advanced in each of the previous five years; last season the team also finished ninth, missing the cut by three strokes.

A trio of players tied for the individual title at one-under-par 215 -- Kelly Lagedrost of South Florida, Beth Bauer of Duke and Jennifer Perri of Furman. Louisiana State's Tina Howard and Furman's Stacey Burnett finished two shots back in a tie for fourth place with 217 totals. Shauna Estas of Georgia placed sixth at 218 while Vanderbilt's Mallory Crosland, Memphis' Natalie Tucker and Louisiana State's Lisette Lee tied for seventh place with 219 totals.

Lagedrost and Crosland won the two NCAA individual berths as the top two individuals not on one of the top eight teams also advance to the NCAA Championships.

The 54-hole event was being played at The University Club which features a par 72, 6,059-yard layout.

FINAL TEAM STANDINGS  
  1.  Georgia           300-294-290--884
  2.  Furman            290-293-302--885  
  2.  Louisiana State   299-292-302--893    
  4.  Duke              297-300-297--894  
  5.  Florida State     296-304-301--901  
  6.  Ohio State        301-299-304--904
  7.  South Carolina    299-302-307--908
  8.  Auburn            306-298-308--912
  9.  North Carolina    308-299-307--914
      Wake Forest       307-300-307--914
 11.  Michigan State    304-304-307--915
 12.  Indiana           310-306-303--919
 13.  South Florida     299-307-314--920
      Tennessee         312-296-312--920
 15.  Memphis           301-310-312--923
 16.  Mississippi       312-306-308--926
 17.  Purdue            316-303-309--928
 18.  Penn State        307-308-317--933
 19.  Campbell          311-312-319--942

TOP 10 INDIVIDUALS
1   Kelly Lagedrost, So Florida*   72  73  70 215   -1
    Beth Bauer, Duke               74  70  71 215   -1
    Jennifer Perri, Furman         71  71  73 215   -1
4   Tina Howard,  LSU              72  74  71 217   +1
    Stacey Burnett, Furman         72  70  75 217   +1
6   Shauna Estes, Georgia          73  75  70 218   +2
7   Mallory Crosland, Vanderbilt*  74  72  73 219   +3
    Natalie Tucker, Memphis        71  74  74 219   +3
    Lisette Lee, LSU               71  71  77 219   +3
10  Summerset Lovett, Ohio St.     76  71  73 220   +4