Smith Totals Top-15 Finish to Pace Blue Devils in Florida

MELBOURNE, Fla. – Duke women’s golf graduate Andie Smith collected a top-15 finish to pace the Blue Devils at the Moon Golf Invitational at the Suntree Country Club in Melbourne. 
 
Smith, who played in her home state of Florida, carded rounds of 71, 75 and 72 for a 2-over-par, 218, to finish tied for 14th.  It marked her fifth top-20 placement of the season and 19th of her four-year career.  As a team, Duke turned in a ninth-place finish with rounds of 298, 292 and 295 for a 54-hole ledger of 885. 
 
HOW IT HAPPENED – ROUND THREE

• Andie Smith closed the week with an even-par, 72, with three birdies.  She opened with back-to-back birdies on No. 7 and No. 8.  Smith, who is from Hobe Sound, hit her 6-iron from 167 yards to seven feet for birdie on the seventh and then rolled in a 35-footer for birdie on No. 8.  After a bogey on No. 9, Smith had a tap-in birdie on the par-5 No. 10 hole to return to 2-under-par for the day.  Smith parred the next eight holes of the back nine.  After heading back to the front nine, she was 2-over over her final six holes to finish with a 72.
• After opening her day on No. 7, Avery McCrery registered two pars and a bogey on No. 9.  On the 10th hole, she was in the greenside bunker in two and hit it to six feet for birdie.  McCrery suffered bogeys on No. 11 and No. 16, while closing with another birdie on No. 2 to finish with a 73.  She played her final 15 holes at even-par.  McCrery hit 14 greens and 11 fairways on the day. 
• Junior Katie Li was even par through 14 holes with three birdies, three bogeys and eight pars.  After parring her first four holes, Li drained a 27-foot putt for birdie on No. 13.  She then bogeyed three out of the next four holes.  Li, a native of Basking Ridge, New Jersey, struck her 54-degree wedge on No. 18 from 76 yards to five feet for birdie and then rolled in a 12-foot birdie on No. 2 to return to even par for the day.  Li suffered a double-bogey on No. 5 and had pars the rest of the way to finish with a 74.  She had 29 puts on the day. 
• Anna Cañado Espinal and Carla De Troia signed for rounds of 76 and 77, respectively, Tuesday.  They combined for three birdies on the day. 
• Auburn won the team title with a 7-under-par, 857, while Texas A&M’s Vanessa Borovilos won the individual title with a 7-under, 209. 
• As a team, Duke shot 295 in the final round.  The Blue Devils held around 4-over or better for most of the day, but closed with seven bogeys, a…