PARADISE ISLAND, BAHAMAS - FGCU Women's Golf completed round two action of the Little Rock White Sands Bahamas Invitational Saturday.
"We had another rough start but kept battling all day," first-year head Shannon Sykora said.
Lousiane Gauthier (Uruguay) and Grace Rigby-Walden (England) highlighted the Eagle's day two effort. Gauthier cut two strokes and Rigby-Walden shaved five strokes from her opening day total on Friday.
Anna Claire Bridge still paces the Green and Blue starting five, tying for 21st heading into Sunday's final round. Bridge is the only Eagle at the event to card back-to-back rounds in the 70s. The Collierville, Tennessee native is 10-over (154) through two rounds.
Heading into Saturday, Bridge's opening-round 75 tied for eighth.
Gauthier is the next highest Eagle on the player leaderboard, tied for 33rd. She leads all Eagles in made pars with 22.
Lipscomb remains atop the team leaderboard at even par as a squad. Four Bisons individually place first, second, third and fourth on the player leaderboard. Lipsomb's Lauren Thompson leads the 45–golfer field at two-under.
FGCU is eighth behind team rounds of 313 and 317.
Sunday's third and final round is slated for an 8 a.m. shotgun start.
EAGLE STARTING FIVE
T21 Anna Claire Bridge 75-79 | +10
33 Lousiane Gauthier 80-78 | +14
T35 Posie Farrelly 79-81 | +16
T42 Grace Rigby-Walden 84-79 | +19
44 Leonie Wulfers 79-85 | +20
1 Lipscomb E | 291-285 | 576
2 Central Arkansas +25 | 293-308 | 601
3 Arkansas State +26 | 304-298 | 602
4 UNCG +28 | 301-303 | 604
5 Little Rock +33 | 309-300 | 609
6 Memphis +42 | 303-315 | 618
7 South Dakota State +46 | 313-309 | 622
8 FGCU +54 | 313-317 | 630
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After a highly successful decade leading Barry University, Shannon Sykora was named the FGCU women's golf head coach on June 16, 2022. During his career with Barry, the Buccaneers won the 2017 NCAA Division II National Title, while finishing runner-up in 2014 and placing third in 2013 and 2022. Sykora led Barry to 28 tournament wins in his decade as head coach including four Division I tournament victories. He has produced five WGCA All-America First Team selections, nine WGCA Scholar All-Americans, one honorable mention All-American, the 2013 NCAA Division II Individual National Champion, and the only D-II player to compete in the inaugural Augusta Women's Amateur.
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