[Spiny_Norman]

Isn’t it more of an advantage to let the other team choose first, so you can react to them? How come Walker likes to go first?

Maybe she wants to force the opposing coach to react to her at least in matches 1 and 3.

USC has one player Cindy Kou who has struggled a bit this week. She shot 78-75 and then sat out the 3rd round as the coach played a substitute. She was back in round 4 and shot 72. It was interesting to see the USC coach put her in the anchor position this morning where she lost. I guess the strategy there was to frontload the first 4 slots with the best players this week and hope to get 3 wins from them. That worked out. USC does have a strong squad.

Last year when USC beat Stanford, these were the matchups:
Xu (Stan) defeated Park (USC) 2&1
Kou (USC) defeated Ganne (Stan) 2&1
Wang (USC) defeated Seay (Stan) 2&1
Englemann (Stan) was 1 up through 17 on Avery (USC)
Navarrosa (USC) defeated Zhang 2&1

USC returned everyone except Wang and replaced her with Bailey Shoemaker, a frosh playing at All American level.

Stanford returned everyone except for Seay and Zhang and replaced them with Heck and Martin Sampedro. This is going to be like a classic heavyweight fight.

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Matchups now posted.

Match 1 - Heck vs. Avery (All American vs. All American)
Match 2 - Englemann vs. Kou
Match 3 - Martin Sampedro vs. Shoemaker (frosh vs. frosh)
Match 4 - Ganne vs. Navarrosa
Match 5 - Xu vs. Park in a rematch from last year

[Spiny_Norman]

Isn’t it more of an advantage to let the other team choose first, so you can react to them? How come Walker likes to go first?

Maybe she wants to force the opposing coach to react to her at least in matches 1 and 3.

USC has one player Cindy Kou who has struggled a bit this week. She shot 78-75 and then sat out the 3rd round as the coach played a substitute. She was back in round 4 and shot 72. It was interesting to see the USC coach put her in the anchor position this morning where she lost. I guess the strategy there was to frontload the first 4 slots with the best players this week and hope to get 3 wins from them. That worked out. USC does have a strong squad.

Last year when USC beat Stanford, these were the matchups:
Xu (Stan) defeated Park (USC) 2&1
Kou (USC) defeated Ganne (Stan) 2&1
Wang (USC) defeated Seay (Stan) 2&1
Englemann (Stan) was 1 up through 17 on Avery (USC)
Navarrosa (USC) defeated Zhang 2&1

USC returned everyone except Wang and replaced her with Bailey Shoemaker, a frosh playing at All American level.

Stanford returned everyone except for Seay and Zhang and replaced them with Heck and Martin Sampedro. This is going to be like a classic heavyweight fight.

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Matchups now posted.

Match 1 - Heck vs. Avery (All American vs. All American)
Match 2 - Englemann vs. Kou
Match 3 - Martin Sampedro vs. Shoemaker (frosh vs. frosh)
Match 4 - Ganne vs. Navarrosa
Match 5 - Xu vs. Park in a rematch from last year