BOCA RATON, Fla. – Two Dolphins sit in the top-10 and Jacksonville University women's golf is fifth after the first two rounds of the Jupiter Women's Invitational Monday.
 
After a challenging morning, the scores plummeted in the afternoon, and Issy Hopkins is T5 and Casey Powell sits T10 with 18 holes to play at Johnathan's Landing Golf Club.
 
Hopkins was +3 through her first seven holes, but buried her first birdie of the day on the Par-5 10th. She concluded her first 18 holes with eight pars over her final 10 of the round. The freshman was properly warmed up, and shaved five strokes off of her score in the second round, climbing 13 spots on the leaderboard. She was -1 through her first five holes of the round. After giving a stroke back on her sixth, she immediately birdied the next hole. This jumpstarted a stretch in which she shot -2 over her next seven. She hit a minor bump, with back-to-back bogeys, before closing the day with consecutive pars for a 1-under 69.
 
She was tied for the best score on Par-3s in the field, shooting -1, and additionally was -1 on Par-5s.
 
Powell was also able to shake off an up-and-down first round, in which she managed nine pars and a pair of birdies. She started the second 18 with three birdies and eight pars in a stretch of 11-straight bogey-free holes to begin the round. She gave two strokes back late, but scored three more pars and sank her fourth and fifth birdies of the round on the Par-4 13th and 18th holes.
 
She shot a 67, her lowest round in her career and tied for the lowest round in the field on the day, climbing 17 spots on the leaderboard, the biggest mover overall. Powell also tied the third-lowest single round in program history, the first to record that score since Michelle Forsland in the second round of the 2017 Jacksonville Classic. She led the team in Par-4 scoring, shooting even par.
 
Not far behind her two teammates, Gemma Burgess also turned in a great afternoon round, climbing 15 spots after improving by eight strokes in the second and is T12. She dealt with some ups-and-downs early, but was mostly good, making three birdies and five pars over her first 10 of the day. From there, she managed just two pars the rest of the round. She shook off the tough finish to the first round by parring her first seven holes of the second. She then buried back-to-back birdies on the Par-3 9th and the Par-5 10th. From there, she made four more pars in a row, before consecutive bogeys slowed her a bit. She closed the round on a high note, making two more birdies in a row to end it with a 2-under 68.
 
She was the third Dolphin to record a score under 70 on the day, with her 68 tied for the seventh lowest 18-hole score in program history. Her -3 scoring on Par-5s led the field, and she tied for the team lead in birdies on the day with Powell, making seven total.
 
Ivete Rodrigues made nine pars and two birdies in her first round, and was five strokes better in the second to move up six spots to T21. She birdied her first of the second round, made three straight pars and bookended it with another birdie. She made eight more pars in the round and added an additional birdie, on the Par-5 10th.
 
Jenna Fonda made 12 first round pars and a birdie. She opened her second round with 11-straight pars, part of 14 in the round. Her 26 pars led the team on the day. Freshman Maria Eir Goujonsdottir made eight first round pars and followed that up with 10 in the second.
 
JU was the best in the field in Par-5 scoring on the day, shooting -1, and were also the second-best overall on Par-3 scoring. The team's 25 birdies were second-most total as well.
 
The final round starts with Fonda teeing off the first hole at 7:51 a.m.