BOCA RATON, Fla. – Letizia Bagnoli held on for a one-shot win on Tuesday at the FAU Paradise Invitational. The Italian finished at -11 (205) to hold off Vanderbilt's Virginie Ding for her fifth career victory. As a team, Florida Atlantic women's golf finished eighth of 14.
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- Bagnoli entered Tuesday's final round with a four-shot edge
- Starting on the fifth hole (shotgun start), she birdied her second hole of the day before recording her first bogey of the tournament at the par-three seventh
- With winds picking up, making low scores hard to come by, the reigning C-USA Player of the Year buckled down and played her last 10 holes in +1
- Vanderbilt's Ding had a putt to tie the lead at the final hole but came up short
- The Commodores still cruised to victory in the team competition at -29 – a 25-shot margin over second place Nebraska
- Osprey Point played its most difficult of the three rounds on Tuesday with a field scoring average of 74.51
- Clemence Cadeac finished as the Owls No. 2 at +2 for the tournament – Cadeac posted a two-over 74 on Tuesday to place in a tie for 22nd
- Olivia Bergner provided the shot of the day at the par-four eighth when she holed out from 104 yards for an eagle-two
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The Owls will return to action with another event close to home in two weeks. The Atlantic Invitational at Indian Spring CC in Boynton Beach, Fla. begins Feb. 20.
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