Paksanont Tied for Fourth after First Day of Low Country Intercollegiate

Hilton Head, S.C. – Pan Paksanont and Marley DeFreitas, playing as an individual, carded opening round scores of 75 as the USC Upstate women's golf team is in sixth place following day one action at the Low Country Intercollegiate from the par 72, 5901-yard Moss Creek Golf Club.

USC Upstate posted a first round score of 313 and is in sixth place out of 14 teams. The Spartans are six strokes behind Albany in second place.

Seton Hall leads the Low Country Intercollegiate after day one at 299 while Cassie Pantelas is atop the individual leaderboard by one stroke at even-par 72.

A LOOK AT THE SCORECARD

The Spartans have three players currently sitting 10^th or better in the individual standings including Paksanont, DeFreitas and Payton Culler.
Paksanont is the top individual performer for USC Upstate with her 3-over 75 and is three strokes back of Pantelas in a tie for fourth place.
DeFreitas, playing as an individual, carded a career-low round of 75 and is also tied for fourth place.
Culler posted an opening round 76 and presently sits tied for eighth place.
Anna Chanthaphaeng and Brooke Hutto are both tied for 39^th place after shooting identical rounds of 81.
Sidney Dermody rounds out the leaderboard for the Spartans tied for 47^th place at 82.
Caroline Heustess, also playing as an individual, is tied for 65^th with an 88.
USC Upstate finished the first round tied for third among the tournament field in pars (50), fourth in par 4 scoring (4.38 stroke average), tied for fourth in birdies (7) and tied for fifth in par 3 scoring (3.30 stroke average).
The Spartans also tallied a 5.50 stroke average in par 5 scoring.
Paksanont leads the Low Country Intercollegiate in par 3 scoring at 2-under with a 2.50 stroke average.
Hutto ranks first after totaling 13 pars.
DeFreitas is tied for first place in par 4 scoring at 1-under and a 3.90 stroke average.
Paksanont sits tied for fourth with three birdies.
Paksanont, Dermody and Chanthaphaeng all lead the team in par 5 scoring at 1-over with a 5.25 stroke average.
Along with the three birdies by Paksanont, Culler and DeFreitas have both contributed two, and Dermody and Chanthaphaeng one each.

TEAM LEADERBOARD

1^st Seton Hall 299
2^nd Albany 307
3^rd Quinnipiac 309
T-4^th Wofford 310
T-4^th Appalachian State 310
6^th USC Upstate 313
T-7^th Indiana State 319
T-7^th Presbyterian College 319
9^th University of Findlay 320
T-10^th Bethune-Cookman 322
T-10^th USC Beaufort 322
12^th The Citadel 342
13^th Gardner-Webb 343
14^th Quinnipiac (B) 359

USC UPSTATE PARTICIPANTS

T-4^th Pan Paksanont 75
T-4^th Marley DeFreitas 75 (competing as an individual)
T-8^th Payton Culler 76
T-39^th Anna Chanthaphaeng 81
T-39^th Brooke Hutto 81
T-47^th Sidney Dermody 82
T-65^th Caroline Heustess 88 (competing as an individual)

UP NEXT

The final round of the Low Country Intercollegiate will tee off on Sunday morning at 9:30 a.m.

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