Miu Takahashi took fifth with a three-round total of 215 (+2) to lead the Nebraska women’s golf team to a fifth-place team finish at the Spring Break Shootout in Dade City, Fla., on Tuesday.
Takahashi, a senior from Nasu-machi, Japan, closed the 54-hole tournament with a 73 (+2) on the 6,049-yard layout of the Lake Jovita Golf Club-South in Tuesday’s final round. It followed a second-round 70 (-1), after Takahashi opened with a 72 (+1) in Monday’s first round. She played solid golf from start to finish for the Big Red with 39 pars, seven birdies, seven bogeys and one double-bogey in the tournament.
It marked Takahashi’s first top-10 finish of the season and sixth of her Husker career. She finished six shots back of tournament medalist Emma Bunch from New Mexico State, who closed at 209 (-4), including a final round 66 (-5). Xuan Khue Minh Doan from St. John’s finished second at 211 (-2) as the only other golfer in the tournament to finish under par. Stetson’s Isaki Sakashita and Florida Gulf Coast’s Posie Farrelly tied for third at 214 (+1) just one shot ahead of Takahashi.
As a team, Nebraska finished with a three-round total of 891 (+39), just two shots back of New Mexico State and Stetson, which tied for third at 889 (+37). Florida Gulf Coast captured the team title at 866 (+14), while Illinois took second at 873 (+21).
Husker Symran Shah contributed the best performance of her career with a 223 (+10) to tie for 15th. The redshirt sophomore from Carrollton, Texas, led Nebraska with a career-best-tying final-round 73 (+2) on Tuesday, after opening the tournament with a 74 (+3) on Monday. She added a second-round 76 (+5). Her previous career best collegiate tournament total was 229 (+13).
Shah matched teammate Hannah Kono with a 223 (+10) in 15th. Kono, a sophomore from Enkoping, Sweden, fired an even-par 71 on Tuesday while competing as an individual outside the Nebraska lineup. She opened with a 74 (+3), before managing a 78 (+7) in Monday’s second round.
Lauren Thiele just missed a top-25 finish of her own while joining Kono in competing as an individual outside the Husker lineup. Thiele, a redshirt sophomore from Wahoo, Neb., tied for 26th with a 54-hole score of 226 (+13) that included an opening-round 74 (+3) before back-to-back rounds of 76 (+5) to close the tournament.
Danica Lundgren put together Nebraska’s third-best finish in the lineup by tying for 34th at 229 (+16). Lundgren opened with a strong 72 (+1) on Tuesday, before struggling to…
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