Rachel Kuehn took medalist honors for Wake Forest, which led the ACC stroke-play portion Saturday at Porter’s Neck Country Club near Wilmington. Wake shot 23-under 851 as a team to beat Clemson by seven strokes. Virginia was third, North Carolina fourth, Duke fifth and N.C. State tied for sixth.
Wake will be the top seed in Sunday’s match-play competition.
After opening with an even-par 72 Thursday, Kuehn, an Asheville native, posted consecutive rounds of 67 to finish stroke play at 10-under 206, three shots clear of the field. Teammate Macy Pate, a Winston-Salem golfer, tied for 13th with another Wake golfer, Brooke Rivers, at 2-under. Pate shot rounds of 72, 71 and 71.
Morgan Ketchum, a former Reagan High golfer, tied with 35th at for Virginia Tech at 221. Emily Mathews, who played at Eastern Alamance High, shot 230 to finish 53rd.
