SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. — UTSA junior and San Antonio native Camryn Carreon concluded her record-setting season on Sunday with a 2-over-par scorecard in the third round of the NCAA Women's Golf Championships at Grayhawk Golf Club's Raptor Course (par 72/6,384 yards).
Playing as the tournament's eighth-seeded individual and the first Roadrunner to advance this far in the NCAA postseason, Carreon carded a 74 and finished the tournament with a 9-over 225 to tie for 52nd place out of more than 120 golfers. After opening with a 73-78—151 for the first two days, the first-team All-Conference USA performer missed the cut for Monday's final round of stroke play by only two shots.
Starting her third round from No. 10, Carreon opened with back-to-back pars before posting a bogey on the 12th hole. She then birdied the 153-par, par-3 13th — a hole she aced during Thursday's practice round — for the second straight day to pull back to even par. The Incarnate Word High product closed out a 37 on that side with four more pars sandwiched around a bogey on No. 15.
Carreon logged three of her final-round birdies on the front side, including on the 360-yard second to counter a bogey on No. 1. She then bounced back from a double bogey on the third with three consecutive pars followed by back-to-back birdies on the 474-yard, par-5 seventh and 158-yard, par-3 eighth holes. She settled for a bogey on her final hole — the 394-yard, par-4 ninth — to round out a 74.
Carreon recorded four birdies in the third round to give her 10 for the event, the fourth-best total in the field through 54 holes. She played the par fives at 1-under and the par threes at even par for the weekend, and she also registered 27 pars during her 54 holes. She wrapped up her third season as a Roadrunner with a 73.89 stroke average, 17 par-or-better rounds, three top-10 finishes and seven top-20 showings.
The C-USA runner-up helped lead UTSA to a second-place finish at the conference tournament and to its fourth straight and seventh overall NCAA postseason appearance. The Roadrunners finished sixth with an 875 at the Franklin Regional on May 9-11 behind Carreon's tie for fourth place with a 5-under 211, the program's best team and individual finishes and 54-hole totals in NCAA play.
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