Hu stayed in control on Saturday, shooting a 73 to maintain a three-shot lead over Penn’s Isabel Han and Columbia’s Michelle Piyapattra, the Ivy League Player of the Year.
Lim rallied on Saturday for her best day of the tournament, shooting a 78. And behind Lim and Hu, Harvard shot a 308 on Saturday, the best single-day performance of any team at the championships, to take the lead going into the tournament’s final day.
The Crimson led the way again on Sunday with a score of 312, shooting the low score for the second day in a row.
Hu earned a comfortable five-stroke victory with a 75 on Sunday.
“[Hu] hit it really far[and] straight all week,” Rhoads said. “She was controlling her distances[and] her mental game well. She led the field in putting which, as difficult as the greens were, was the most pivotal part of the tournament.”
Lee’s 76 was her best round of the tournament. Lim shot an 80 to fall to ninth place, while Nelson and Cho followed with an 82 and an 81, respectively.
The Crimson now faces its next challenge at the NCAA Regional tournament on May 10th at the Penn State Golf Courses.
“We knew that we had a shot to go to Regionals before coming into the tournament,” Lim said. “We knew that if we just did our job and played well at the tournament, we’d make it in. Now that we did win, we have some confidence going into [NCAAs].”
—Staff writer Claire K. Dailey can be reached at ckdailey@college.harvard.edu.