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LSU women's golf wins SEC Championship, first time since 1992

2 years 7 months 3 weeks ago Sunday, April 17 2022 Apr 17, 2022 April 17, 2022 3:29 PM April 17, 2022 in Sports
Source: WBRZ

UPDATE: LSU Women's Golf won the SEC Championship on Easter Sunday after Latanna Stone hit two putts from six feet on the 18th hole. 

This is the first time since 1992 that LSU Women's Golf has been named the SEC Champions. 

Read the story from Saturday below:

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BIRMINGHAM, Ala. – LSU’s Latanna Stone rallied from one hole down with three to play to give LSU the clinching point in a 3.5-1.5 semifinal match play win over Alabama Saturday as the sun set on the Southeastern Conference Women’s Golf Championship at the Greystone Country Club’s Legacy Course.

LSU was able to get the three points necessary with wins from Carla Tejedo, Elsa Svensson and Stone. Ingrid Lindblad rallied to tie her match with a long birdie on the final hole. That match went to extra holes, but Stone ended things before they could complete the first hole of sudden death to deem the match a tie.

The Tigers and the Florida Gators, which upset No. 1 seed Auburn, 3-2, in the other semifinal will now meet at 8 a.m. Sunday morning for the SEC Championship as the Tigers of LSU go for their first conference crown in 30 years. The match will be televised live on the SEC Network.

LSU earlier in the day needed just 30 minutes to finish off the rain delayed quarterfinals, 4-1, over Vanderbilt.

“That was a fun afternoon,” said Coach Garrett Runion, whose team will be making its first appearance in the finals since the tournament changed to this format, and after losing in the semifinals in 2021. “It feels amazing. So now we have one more to go and let’s see if we can’t finish this thing off.”

Stone was able to tie the match and then on the par three eighth hole (the 17th of the match), and she hit a strong tee shot and made the birdie putt to swing the match back in LSU’s favor.

It proved to be pivotal with Tejedo and Svensson both in with their second wins of the day. Alabama already had one win and the Tide’s Benedetta Moresco had turned the two-hole lead of LSU’s Ingrid Lindblad into a one-hole deficit after 17 holes with some amazing play.

So with the Lindblad-Moresco match on the final green and Stone and Polly Mack heading down the fairway, Lindblad kept Alabama from a potential second point by finally getting a birdie putt to drop after several near misses on the last nine to force extra holes which eventually weren’t needed.

Stone then did what she needed to do and put her approach behind the hole, and with Mack facing a fairly long birdie effort to tie the match, Stone two-putted for par. After Mack missed her putt, the Tigers were celebrating a victory in the post-sunset finish.

Coach Runion talked about his freshman Svensson, who was able to tie the last three holes to win her match 1UP after her opponent, Angelica Moresco, cut her lead in half, including a par save from trouble on the final hole (the course’s ninth hole).

Svensson, on the last hole, hit the cart path with her tee shot and the ball went into the woods. But she showed her talents to get it home with a par after a nine-iron third shot and a 10-footer to halve the hole.

“Elsa came up huge after having to punch out of trouble and was able to get up and down from (129 yards) to win the match. Latanna played great. She came through in the clutch, and that putt by Ingrid on the final hole to give us a little breathing room was what we’ve come to expect,” the coach said.

Florida, meanwhile on the other side of the course, was able to rally with two straight late birdies to win the final match on the course that broke a 2-2 tie.

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