Aided by a stretch of six consecutive birdies, Natalie Roth of Moorhead Country Club tied a course record by shooting 6-under-par 68 to take a two-shot lead after two rounds of the Minnesota Women's Amateur Championship at White Bear Yacht Club in Dellwood on Wednesday.
Roth posted a 1-under-par 73 to begin the championship Monday and started her second round Tuesday with a bogey and seven birdies, including six in a row to finish the front nine. Roth finished the second round at 7-under-par 143 and will take a two-stroke advantage over Taylor Ledwein of New Prague Golf Club into Wednesday's final round.
"I made a couple mental mistakes [Monday] — there were a few things I wanted to clean up and I thought I capitalized on them a little bit better [Tuesday]," said Roth, a co-medalist in the 2013 Class 2A girls' golf tournament as a junior at Detroit Lakes. "The bogey on two kind of lit a fire — it was an unnecessary bogey, but it was what I needed, apparently, to get a string of birdies going."
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• Alli Lipsher has been hired as director of goalkeeping, according to Gophers soccer coach Stefanie Golan. Previously, Lipsher was an assistant coach at Trinity College and goalkeeper coach at East Carolina and Arizona.
