Michelle Estill moved into a share of the second-round lead with Young-A Yang.

Michelle Estill moved into a share of the second-round lead with Young-A Yang.
By PETE MOLLICA
VINDICATOR SPORTS STAFF
VIENNA -- Saturday always is said to be moving day at an LPGA Tournament, and 14-year veteran Michelle Estill made the biggest move of the day in the Giant Eagle LPGA Classic at Squaw Creek Country Club.
Estill fired a 5-under-par 67 and together with her opening round of 1-under-par 71 totaled 6-under-par 138, to share the lead going into today's final round.
Young-A Yang, a second-year pro from Seoul, Korea was tied with Estill in this 15th LPGA tournament in the Mahoning Valley. Yang shot a 1-under-par 71 to go with her opening round 5-under 67.
Those two held a one shot lead over Laura Diaz and Moira Dunn, who were deadlocked at 5-under-par 139.
Diaz, the sixth-year pro from Amelia Island, Fla., shot a second round 2-under-par 70, while Dunn from Utica, N.Y. had a 3-under-par 69 on Saturday.
Tour rookie Nadina Taylor from Melbourne, Australia was all alone at 4-under-par after shooting a 71.
Estill is pleased
"I'm really happy with my play today," said Estill. "I struggled yesterday with my irons."
The veteran has only one victory on tour and that came 14 years ago in her rookie season when she won the Ping-Cellular One LPGA Championship.
"I lost my card last year and had to return to Q-School, and since I'm a non-exempt player I haven't played as much as I would normally," Estill said.
Yang, who has never been in the final pairings on a Sunday, said she really didn't know what to expect today.
"I know that I'm really not going to worry about it," she said. "I'm just going to go out and play to the best of my ability and what happens, happens."
First round leader Gloria Park, who shot 66 on Friday, fell to a 4-over-par 76 on Saturday and was at 2-under-par for the tournament.
The field was cut to the low 70 players and ties following Saturday's round, which was finished in near darkness because of a two-hour-and-15-minute rain delay in the morning that set the entire field behind.
A total of 72 players survived the cut which was set at 3-over par 147.
Diaz was fortunate
Diaz, who played in the morning round, was fortunate that she hadn't teed off before the long rain delay.
"I was one of the lucky ones, but really when we got out there we were surprised that the golf course wasn't that wet, they really did a good job. I didn't have a ball plug and never really had an approach shot that spun back too much," she said.
LPGA Tour rookie Katherine Hull from Queensland, Australia, shot the best round of the day in the second round. Hull fired a 6-under 66 after starting the day at 4-over-par and finished at 2-under for the tournament. She saved par from the sand on her final hole, the par-3 ninth hole.
Teske didn't make cut
One player who didn't make the cut was defending tournament champion Rachel Teske, who shot two-over-par 74 on Saturday to go with her 75 on Friday for a 149 total and missing the cut by two shots.
Today's final round will begin at 9 a.m. with players going off both the No. 1 and No. 10 tees. This was done in order to have an earlier finishing time since several players in this year's field have airplane reservations to go to Europe for next weeks' Evian Masters in France.
There is more rain in the forecast for today, both this morning and in the afternoon.
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