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ministration and support staff throughout my eight years has been astounding. I will miss my athletes greatly but know they will continue to work hard and keep Purdue softball moving in the right direction." Maher's teams at Purdue finished above .500 in seven seasons and posted 30 victories or more on six occasions. But this spring was a struggle as the BY BRANDAN ALFORD ing Wednesday's second round. Boilers finished 23-32 overall, BrandanAlford@Gmail.com "I think USC showed there's a low and in 10th place in the Big Ten team round out here. (Thursday) with an 8-15 mark. fter two rounds of play, Purdue's is officially moving day." During Maher's tenure, women's golf team was tied for Purdue is looking for its Purdue had at least one All-Big fifth place at the NCAA championships eighth consecutive top-ten finTen honoree in each of her last in Athens, Ga. The Boilers carded their ish under Brouse at the NCAAs six seasons, including a pair of second consecutive one-over par 289 on and has the pedigree to make players this past season. At least Wednesday, and sat at 2-over entering a move in the event's final two four Boilers earned Academic Thursday's third round of play. rounds. Reto, Gonzalez and Aurora Kan All-Big Ten honors every season Top-ranked Southern California Sinha were all freshman on the as well, including 11 such honblitzed the field on Tuesday, shooting a Boilers' 2010 national ors being earned in 2013. course-record 276 for a two-round championship team as well as the Link total of 16-under par. The Trojans to liv 2011 squad that finished as runBurkhardt, Varsho earn nc aa e have a 12-stroke lead over secondgolf ner-up. honors place Alabama. Duke and UCLA scoring Click the icon to the left to folJunior Andie Varsho and sophomore round out the top five. Stanford is low results on Thursday and Friday. Ashley Burkhardt were named to the tied with Purdue. NFCA All-Mideast Region first team last Freshman Aurora Kan led the sevMaher resigns from week. It was Burkhardt's first regional enth-ranked Boilers on Tuesday, shootsoftball post honor and Varsho's second of her career. ing a one-under 71. She sat in a tie for Following a disappointing 2013 seaVarsho was a first-team All-Big Ten 10th-place individually at two-under par. son, softball coach Kim Maher resigned selection 2013 as well as she led Purdue Seniors Paula Reto, Laura Gonzalez and on May 11 after eight seasons at the helm with a .415 batting average, the third Kishi Sinha all carded 73s on Tuesday, of the Purdue program. best mark in school history. Varsho had a while freshman Margaux Vanmol turned "I will forever be grateful to the late .500 on-base percentage, a .591 slugging in an even-par 72. Roger Blalock for giving me an opportu"We have just got to keep playing nity to coach at Purdue University," Maher percentage and had 16 extra base hits. Burkhard hit .320 on the season, and and keep moving up that leaderboard," said in a statement released by Purdue. had a team-leading 40 runs scored while Brouse said to Purduesports.com follow- "The support I have received from the ad- women's golf competing at ncaas A adding 10 extra base hits and stealing 20 bases. She started all 55 games this past season and reached base via base hit or walk in 48 of those games. Having earned first-team All-Region honors, both Varsho Andie Varsho and Burkhardt are now eligible to be selected as NFCA AllAmericans later this month at the NCAA Women's College World Series. Varsho has added another honor, that of Academic All-American as the Chili, Wis., garnered Capitol One third team honors on Thursday. Varsho is Purdue's first softball Academic All-American since Tricia Lilley in 2006 and the sixth in program history. Schenk takes ninth at Regional Adam Schenk finished in a tie for ninth place at the Columbus golf Regional last week, firing a final round threeover 74 to finish at four-over. Schenk was attempting to qualify for the NCAA Championships as an individual performer at the Regional, but came up short. The ninth-place finish was the best of Schenk's career at the Regional level in his third appearance. It capped a solid season for the Vincennes, Ind., native as he earned first team All-Big Ten honors and a place on the All-Big Ten ChampiGoldanDBlack express • volume 23, express 30 • 25