Belén Mozo has achieved her first collegiate victory in the United States after winning the Edean Ihlanfeldt Invitational, a tournament in which her university, Southern California, also won with a 9-stroke advantage over Arizona State and in which the Spaniards Adriana Zwanck and Azahara Muñoz also had a notable performance, third and twelfth respectively in the final individual classification.

Belén Mozo, from Cádiz, who is in her second year of studies at the aforementioned University of Southern California, accumulated 217 strokes over the three days of competition, the first two very sunny and the last extremely complicated due to the heavy rain that fell on the Sahalee Country Club, in the state of Washington, where the event was held.

Adorned with two rounds of 70 and 75 strokes, Belén Mozo started the final day of the tournament from third position, 4 strokes behind Alison Walshe, from the University of Arizona.

Three birdies and as many bogeys constituted the brave response of the Spanish golfer to very adverse weather conditions and, above all, to the hesitant final performance of the American Alison Walshe, who ended up making more mistakes than usual to finish with 76 strokes in the last round, 217 in total, like Belén Mozo, but second in the final classification due to the greater number of strokes in the last 18 holes.

Adriana Zwanck from Madrid, Alison Walshe's teammate at the University of Arizona, added 2 strokes more than both of them to finish third, with special mention for her outstanding final round of 70 strokes.

FINAL CLASSIFICATION
1.- Belén Mozo (Southern California) 217 (70+75+72)
2.- Alison Walshe (Arizona) 217 (72+69+76)
3.- Adriana Zwanck (Arizona) 219 (73+76+70)
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12.- Azahara Muñoz (Arizona State) 223 (76+72+75)

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