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The University of Wisconsin-Whitewater golf team played its way into the top 15 to make the cut into Friday's final round at the NCAA Division III Championship at the El Campeon Golf Course at Mission Inn Resort and Club in Howey-in-the-Hills, Fla.
 
The Warhawks improved their third-round score another 10 strokes to move past Washington and Lee (Va.) into 15th place for the final team qualifying spot. The team enters the final round with a score of 1000 (350-330-320), only one stroke behind 14th-place Transylvania (Ky.), two shy of 13th-place Illinois Wesleyan and seven short of 12th-place Amherst (Mass.).
 
Sophomore CheyAnn Knudsen (Milton, Wis./Milton) highlighted the day with a one-over par 74, tied for the second-lowest score in program history and good for the fourth-best score in an NCAA Championship by a Wisconsin Intercollegiate Athletic Conference golfer in the league's history.
 
Knudsen soared up the leaderboard 30 spots to a tie for 27th through three rounds with a 242 (84-84-74). Sophomore Ashley Hofmeister (New Berlin, Wis./Eisenhower) carded an 81 Thursday and is tied for 29th with a 243 (80-82-81).
 
Junior Maddie McCue (Milton, Wis./Milton) enters Friday's final round in 80th place with a 259 (94-85-80). Sophomores Kelly Storti (Deerfield, Ill./Deerfield) and Kristin Bowe (Franklin, Wis./Franklin) are each tied for 86th, as Storti fired an 80 Thursday for a three-day total of 262 (94-88-80) and Bowe tallied an 86 for her 262 (92-84-86).
 
UW-Whitewater is paired with Illinois Wesleyan and Transylvania in the final round, and will tee off at 7:30 a.m. Central Time.