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U.S. Women’s Mid-Amateur 7HoleParportleachThe Final: Port vs. Leach1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 184 3 4 5 3 5 4 4 4 4 4 4 3 4 5 3 4 54 3 3 6 3 6 4 5 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 3 55 3 4 5 3 5 5 5 4 5 4 5 3 4 4 3 5– Won hole2004 Championship 2011 Championship Notes NotesLeadersRound 1 – Brenda Pictor, at even-par 72, by one stroke overVirginia Grimes. Round 2 – Pictor was medalist at 2-over-par146, by two strokes over Leigh Klasse and Tara Joy-Connelly.CutAt 22-over-par 166, with a 6-for-1 playoff that lasted onehole for the final match-play berth.WeatherTorrential rain and strong winds on Saturday, with temperaturesin the low 60s. Play was suspended due to unplayableconditions at 12:45 p.m. and canceled at 4:15 p.m. First-roundplay resumed Sunday at 7:55 a.m. with overcast skies andtemperatures in the mid 60s. Sunny Monday and Tuesday,with temperatures in the upper 70s and low 80s. Heavy rainWednesday morning, but sunny and humid Wednesday afternoon.Sunny Thursday morning, but giving way to clouds inthe afternoon. The championship match was suspended due todangerous conditions caused by a thunderstorm at 3:22 p.m.and resumed at 4 p.m.NotesThere were 34 states represented in the championshipfield: Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado,Connecticut, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana,Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan,Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, New Jersey, New Mexico,New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania,South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Virginia, Washingtonand Wisconsin ... Six countries were represented: Canada,Japan, Mexico, Russia, Sri Lanka and the United States ...The youngest player in the field was Paige Bromen, 25, ofStillwater, Minn. (DOB 8/1/1986). There were six other25-year-olds in the field, all in their first year of eligibility.Deborah Anderson, 60, of Rancho Mirage, Calif., wasthe championship’s oldest competitor ... There were ninepast USGA champions in the field: Carolyn Creekmore, 59,of Dallas, Texas (2004 Senior Women’s Amateur); VirginiaGrimes, 47, of Meridian, Miss. (1998 Women’s Mid-Amateur);Mina Hardin, 51, of Fort Worth, Texas (2010 Senior Women’sAmateur); Martha Lang, 58, of Birmingham, Ala. (1988Women’s Mid-Amateur); Martha Leach, 49, of Hebron, Ky.(2009 Women’s Mid-Amateur); Amber Marsh Elliott, 42,of Greensboro, N.C. (2003 Women’s Mid-Amateur); EllenPort, 49, of St. Louis, Mo. (1995, 1996, 2000 Women’s Mid-Amateur); Meghan Stasi, 33, of Oakland Park, Fla. (2006,2007, 2010 Women’s Mid-Amateur); and Corey Weworski,49, of Carlsbad, Calif. (2004 Women’s Mid-Amateur) ... Therewere also five past USGA Women’s State Team championsin the field: Laura Coble, 47, of Augusta, Ga. (2005, 2009Women’s State Team, Georgia); Grimes (1997 Women’s StateTeam, Alabama); Leigh Klasse, 51, of St. Anthony, Minn. (2001Women’s State Team, Minnesota); Claudia Pilot, 54, of Austin,Minn. (2001 Women’s State Team, Minnesota); and ThuhashiniSelvaratnam, 35, of Sri Lanka (2007 Women’s State Team,Arizona). Coble’s Georgia team successfully defended itsWomen’s State Team title two weeks following the Women’sMid-Amateur ... Seven players had represented the USA atthe Curtis Cup Match: Robin Burke, 48, of Houston, Texas(1998); Patricia Cornett, 57, of Mill Valley, Calif. (1978, 1988);Grimes (1998, 2000, 2006); Lang (1992); Noreen Mohler, 57,of Bethlehem, Pa. (1978); Port (1994, 1996); and Stasi (2008).Lang and Mohler served as USA Curtis Cup Team captainsin 1996 and 2010, respectively. Cornett will serve as the USATeam captain for the 2012 Match ... Creekmore and Weworskirepresented the USA at the 2005 Copa de las Americas... In celebration of the championship’s 25th anniversary,Dena Nowotny, the first Women’s Mid-Amateur chairman,spoke at the players’ dinner ... Due to the weather problemsthat plagued the championship, the semifinal matches wereconducted on Thursday morning rather than the traditionalWednesday afternoon. The championship match was conductedimmediately following the semifinals.Women’sMid-Amateur