Site: Ninety Six, S.C.
Course: The Patriot Golf Course at Grand Harbor (Par 72, 6,165 yards)
Tournament: Big South Championships
HPU Team Standing: 3rd of 10 teams (303-292-595, +19)
Top HPU Individual: Danielle Suh, T-7th (75-71-146, +2)
Next HPU Round: Friday, April 16 -- at Big South Championships (Ninety Six, S.C.)

NINETY SIX, S.C. -- Behind the best round from any team in the field, the High Point University women's golf team moved up to third place on day two of the Big South Championships on Thursday (April 15).
 
Danielle Suh and Samantha Vodry both shot under par in the second round to help the Panthers shoot a 292 as a team at four-over, two strokes better than the second-best round of the day. Suh is HPU's leader after 36 holes and enters the final round in the top 10 in a tie for seventh at two-over. Vodry and Sarah Kahn are both one shot back at +3 in a tie for 11th while Vynie Chen sits in 29th place at 11-over and Olivia John has a share of 38th at +17.
 
The Panthers are within striking distance of a program record in the Big South Championships as an even-par round of 288 on Friday would give the Purple and White a total score of 883, matching the lowest team score the Panthers have had in the event from 2017. It would also be High Point's third sub-900 score in the postseason - all of which have come in the last five years under head coach Alexis Bennett - and 12th sub-900 event in program history, with nine of the current 11 such rounds coming under Bennett's leadership.
 
Suh and Vodry were two of just five golfers among the field in red numbers on the day, making High Point the only team with multiple golfers under-par. Suh started the day in a share of 15th place and climbed eight spots with a 71 while Vodry made the biggest jump of moving day, climbing 14 spots from a tie for 25th to a tie for 11th with her 70 - one of just two rounds in the field that were multiple strokes below par. Kahn shot a 74 to fall one spot and out of the top 10 while Chen and John both improved by one stroke, shooting a 77 and 80, respectively. Every member of the Purple and White had multiple birdies on their card in round two after only two achieved the feat yesterday, with a quartet of Panthers picking up three birdies in Thursday's round.
 
Just like yesterday, Suh turned in her card with a lot of pars on it, parring 13 of the 18 holes. She's the clubhouse leader in pars after 36 holes as she's picked up 28 of them over the first two rounds. Suh took two bogeys in the round but immediately rebounded with a birdie on the next hole both times. She bogeyed the par-5 fifth before birdieing six before repeating the process on holes 11 and 12. The freshman carded one more birdie before the round was over and did it on her last hole, one of four Panthers to birdie the par-5 18th.
 
Vodry had two of her three birdies on the front and made the turn one-under after giving a stroke back on the par-5 eighth. She parred the first eight holes of the back before picking up her third and final birdie of the day on 18. Kahn also had two birdies and a bogey on the front and birdied 18, but started her back nine with four straight bogeys for splits of 35 and 39 for her 74. Chen and John also each had two birdies on the front, with John picking up one more on 18 to be the fourth Panther with a birdie on the last.
 
Campbell retained its spot atop the team leaderboard and sits at one-under with a 15-stroke lead over second-place USC Upstate heading into the final round on Friday (April 16). The Spartans have a five-shot advantage over High Point and the Panthers have a two-stroke cushion over Gardner-Webb and Winthrop in a tie for the fourth and final spot in the match-play semifinals. Upstate golfer Beem Pabsimma fired her second-straight round of 69 for the low round of the day and took over the individual lead by one stroke over Campbell's Anna Nordfors at six-under.
 
High Point will be going off in the final wave of golfers with Campbell and Upstate Friday morning, teeing off between 10:12 a.m. and 10:52 a.m.