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Published: Saturday, May 16, 2009 2:31 a.m. MDT
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Kyle Prolo of San Francisco is currently tied with Johnson in fifth place at 5-under-par. San Francisco is in sixth place in the field at 5-under-par.

Round three will be played this morning and can be followed on golfstat.com. Fillmore will tee off at approximately 9:50 a.m. MDT, while Johnson will begin at roughly 10:10 a.m.

SLCC

SOFTBALL: Wallace State's Kelsey Dennis struck out 10 Bruin hitters and allowed only two hits as her No. 2-seeded Lions defeated No. 3 seed Salt Lake Community College, 3-0, in a winner's bracket semifinal game at the 2009 NJCAA National Championship tournanment Friday afternoon at the Canyons Complex in St. George.

The defending national champions (61-8) advanced to play tourney top seed Yavapai College in the winner's bracket final Friday night, while SLCC (44-6) faced No. 11 Seminole State CC in a consolation bracket elimination game Friday afternoon.

Dennis retired 15 of the first 17 hitters she faced, and she would go on to strike out the side in each of the final two innings. Meanwhile, the Lion offense gave Dennis all the runs she would need with a single tally in the third, followed by two more runs in the fourth.

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Salt Lake's Stacie Graham was the only SLCC hitter to solve Dennis in the game, as the Bruins' lead-off hitter had both SLCC hits.

In Friday's second game, Seminole State hurler Stephanie Glass limited SLCC to only one run on two hits in seven strong innings to lead her 11th-seeded Trojans to their third-straight elimination game victory, 3-1, in the consolation bracket. The Trojans (53-11) advances to play the winner of Blinn College-Florida CC-Jacksonville game in another consolation elimination game this morning.

Salt Lake is eliminated and finished its season with a 49-9 record.

Glass retired 15 of the first 16 Bruin hitters she faced, while the Trojan offense staked her to three fourth-inning runs, including a three-run double from Megan Whitmire. Salt Lake manufactured a run in the sixth, but Glass retired the side in order in the seventh to close out the game. Glass, is 4-1 in the tournament, finished the game with four strikeouts, giving her 16 in 34 innings of work through five tourney games.

Salt Lake pitching did its part in a losing effort as the tandem of Jordyn McDonald and Reilee O'Brien limited Seminole to only four hits, though McDonald was tagged with the loss as she allowed three runs on three hits with five strikeouts.

DIXIE STATE

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