{"id":194199,"date":"2015-03-18T04:00:53","date_gmt":"2015-03-17T18:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=194199"},"modified":"2015-03-18T04:00:53","modified_gmt":"2015-03-17T18:00:53","slug":"leina-tied-atop-leaderboard-at-wichita","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/leina-tied-atop-leaderboard-at-wichita\/","title":{"rendered":"Leina tied atop leaderboard at Wichita"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Leina Kim rediscovered her old form to join West Texas A&#038;M University Buffaloes bet Whitlee Woods on top of the leaderboard after the opening round of the Midwestern State Invitation on Monday at the Wichita Falls Country Club in Wichita Falls, Texas.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_194202\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-194202\" style=\"width: 150px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a attid=\"194202\"  href=\"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Leina-pix1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Leina-pix1-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Leina Kim hopes to sustain her fine form in the final round of the Midwestern State Invitational at the Wichita Falls Country Club in Wichita Falls, Texas in her bid for a maiden title in the Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference\u2019s spring season. (CSU-Pueblo Website) \" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-194202\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-194202\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Leina Kim hopes to sustain her fine form in the final round of the Midwestern State Invitational at the Wichita Falls Country Club in Wichita Falls, Texas in her bid for a maiden title in the Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference\u2019s spring season. (CSU-Pueblo Website)<br \/><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The Colorado State University-Pueblo junior, according to the Lady ThunderWolves website, fired her sixth below-par round this season with a 1-under 71, which Woods equaled after finishing her 18 rounds.<\/p>\n<p>Kim\u2019s six birdies, against the par 72, 5,843-yard golf course, helped her climb atop the standings as she also went 3-under on par-4 holes.<\/p>\n<p>Midwestern State University Mustang Sarah Moore carded a 2-over 74 to place third followed by teammate Sierra Campbell\u2019s 3-over 75.<\/p>\n<p>Rogers State University Hillcat Kina Boon and Campbell shot hole-in-ones, both par-3 holes, at the 147-yard No. 2 and the 167-yard No. 4, respectively.<\/p>\n<p>Julie Sanchez, Kim\u2019s teammate and a senior at CSU-Pueblo, had the second-best score for the ThunderWolves with an 8-over 80 to end up at joint 26th with six others. She carded 12 pars, the most in the 84-golfer field.<\/p>\n<p>Danielle DuPont (96, 76th), Megan McCutcheon (99, 79th), and Natasha Navarro (103, 81st) round up CSU-Pueblo\u2019s scoring.<\/p>\n<p>The LadyThunderwolves are currently in 13th place, while the Lady Mustangs lead the field with a tournament-best 302 followed by the Lady Buffaloes\u2019 308 and the 309 of the Tarleton State University TexAnns\u2019 309.<\/p>\n<p>Day 2 action is set Tuesday at 8:30am local time.<\/p>\n<p>Two weeks ago, Kim fired a two-day tally of 13-over 157 to finish tied for 10th place together with University of Missouri-St. Louis Tritons\u2019 Joana Yanez in the Las Vegas Desert Classic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Leina Kim rediscovered her old form to join West Texas A&#038;M University Buffaloes bet Whitlee&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":48,"featured_media":194202,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[3040,3041,3042,3043],"class_list":["post-194199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-lady-mustangs","tag-sierra-campbell","tag-whitlee-woods","tag-wichita-falls"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194199","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/48"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=194199"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194199\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/194202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}