{"id":194281,"date":"2015-03-19T04:00:51","date_gmt":"2015-03-18T18:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=194281"},"modified":"2015-03-19T04:00:51","modified_gmt":"2015-03-18T18:00:51","slug":"leina-ends-up-second-in-wichita","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/leina-ends-up-second-in-wichita\/","title":{"rendered":"Leina ends up second in Wichita"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Leina Kim failed to sustain her fine form and settled for a runner-up finish in the Midwestern State Invitation on Tuesday at the Wichita Falls Country Club in Wichita Falls, Texas.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_194282\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-194282\" style=\"width: 150px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a attid=\"194282\"  href=\"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Leina-pix2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Leina-pix2-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Leina Kim tees off during the final day of the Midwestern State Invitation on Tuesday at the Wichita Falls Country Club in Wichita Falls, Texas. (CSU-Pueblo) \" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-194282\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-194282\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Leina Kim tees off during the final day of the Midwestern State Invitation on Tuesday at the Wichita Falls Country Club in Wichita Falls, Texas. (CSU-Pueblo)<br \/><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The Colorado State University-Pueblo junior, according to the CSU-Pueblo Lady ThunderWolves website, limped with a 9-over 81 against the par-72, 5,843-yard layout. She and West Texas A&#038;M University\u2019s Whitlee Woods were on top of the leaderboard after round one.<\/p>\n<p>Kim, who earned her sixth Top 3 finish in the Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference season, and Woods shot a 1-under 71 to share first place after the opening round. She tallied 152 to lose the individual title by a stroke to West Texas\u2019 Glory Jangthongsiri.<\/p>\n<p>Jangthongsiri, who was tied for 23rd on Monday with a 7-over 79, fired an even-par final round giving her a 7-over 151 total to earn her second title this season after winning the St. Mary\u2019s Rattler Invitational. It was also her fifth overall title.<\/p>\n<p>Midwestern bets Sierra Campbell and Sarah Moore, and opening round co-leader Woods tallied 9-over 153s to end up tied for third to fifth spots.<\/p>\n<p>Kim, despite losing the crown, recorded the tournament\u2019s best scoring average on par-four holes with 4.10 while posting the second-most birdies with seven. She had six birdies in the first round and went 3-under on par-4 holes.<\/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<p>The rest of the Wolf Pack: Julie Sanchez dropped to a tie for 41st with a 168, Megan McCutcheon came in 77th with a 196 followed by the 199 of Natasha Navarro at 78th place. Danielle DuPont landed at 81st with a 208.<\/p>\n<p>The ThunderWolves finished the two-day tournament at 13th with a total score of 708. Host Midwestern Mustangs topped the event with a 617 followed by West Texas  (624), Academy of Art University (626), Tarleton State (630), and Rogers State (640).<\/p>\n<p>The CSU-Pueblo bets return to Colorado Springs on March 28 and 29 for the Mountain Lion Invitational.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Leina Kim failed to sustain her fine form and settled for a runner-up finish in&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":48,"featured_media":194282,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[3078,3079,3080,3043],"class_list":["post-194281","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-host-midwestern-mustangs","tag-rattler-invitational","tag-rogers-state","tag-wichita-falls"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194281","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=194281"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194281\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/194282"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}