Oklahoma scene: OU women's golf team sets school records during Susie Maxwell Berning Classic

Chirapat Jao-Javanil notches first championship of the fall season, finishing two shots ahead of Lindsey Weaver of Notre Dame and Sarah Schober of Redlands Community College

From Staff Reports | Modified: October 17, 2012 at 10:26 pm | Published: October 17, 2012 Comment on this article

The Oklahoma women's golf team set a school record during Wednesday's final round of the Susie Maxwell Berning Classic on the Jimmie Austin OU Club course in Norman. The Sooners won the 18-team tournament behind a record 8-under-par 280 during the final round. OU finished with a 29-stroke advantage over runner-up Notre Dame.

OU's three-round score of 5-under 859 was also a school mark, beating the previous record by four shots set in 2011. The old record for 18 holes by a Sooners team was 282, also set in 2011.

Sooners junior Chirapat Jao-Javanil was medalist — her first title of the fall season — behind a final-round 4-under 68. Jao-Javanil's 54-hole tournament total was 7-under 209. She finished two shots ahead of Lindsey Weaver of Notre Dame and Sarah Schober of Redlands Community College in El Reno.

PCR EVENT BEGINS THURSDAY IN DUNCAN

The Prairie Circuit Finals Rodeo begins Thursday night at the Stephens County Fair and Expo Center in Duncan.

Top cowboys and cowgirls from Oklahoma, Nebraska and Kansas will be trying to earn a Prairie Circuit championship and a berth in the National Circuit Finals in Oklahoma City next spring.

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