STOCKBRIDGE, Ga. – The Western Carolina women's golf team posted an opening-round score of 315 on Sunday to sit in a two-way tie for 11th place overall after 18 of the scheduled 54 holes at the John Kirk Panther Intercollegiate, hosted by Georgia State at the par-72, 6,003-yard Eagle's Landing Country Club.

Senior Ashley Thompson paced the Catamount scoring five with an opening-round 4-over-par 76 on Sunday. Starting on the back nine, the Clyde, N.C., product played her first nine holes at 1-over-par with three bogeys against a pair of birdies. On the front nine, Thompson had two bogeys and a double-bogey, finishing the round with a birdie on No. 9 for the 4-over round.

Sophomore Natalia Villavicencio sits a stroke back in a tie for 33rd overall after shooting 5-over 77.

Junior Alyssa Morahan shot 7-over-par 79 to sit in a tie for 48th overall, while senior Bethany Galloway is tied for 62nd after a first-round 83, and junior Amanda Floberg in 80th after posting an 89, all carding a birdie in Sunday's first round.

Murray State holds a one-stroke lead over Eastern Kentucky after 18 holes, 293-to-294. Oral Roberts is three strokes off the pace at 296, followed by Kansas State (298) in fourth and a two-way tie between Winthrop and Florida Gulf Coast for fifth after first round scores of 300.

EKU's Elsa Moberly has a three-stroke lead over a three-way tie for the runner-up spot after shooting a 4-under-par round of 68. Kennedy Ishee of Oral Roberts, Madeline Marck-Sherk of Florida Gulf Coast, and Murray State's Anna Moore each shot 1-under 71 to sit tied for second.

Paired with golfers from Appalachian State and Western Michigan, the Catamount scoring five will tee off on the back nine beginning at 10 a.m.