Mi Hyun Kim, Miyazato head to quarters in Match Play

New Rochelle, NY (Sports Network) - Mi Hyun Kim carded a 3 & 2 win over Rachel Hetherington in Saturday's third round at the HSBC Women's World Match Play Championship at Wykagyl Country Club.
Kim, who is the highest remaining seed at No. 10, moves on to face Jee Young Lee, who beat Laura Diaz 2-up. Just five holes were won in the Hetherington- Kim match, with Kim winning four of them, including three in a five-hole stretch from the 12th.
Lee led 1-up around the turn, but Diaz squared things with a par on 13. Diaz bogeyed 15 and 16 to fall 2-down and they split 17 and 18 giving Lee the 2-up victory.
The third round was completed earlier Saturday, while the quarterfinals will take place Saturday afternoon with the semifinals and finals on Sunday.
Ai Miyazato, the 12th seed, fended off Christina Kim 2 & 1. Miyazato will battle Amy Hung in the quarters. Hung needed 19 holes to beat Carin Koch. Hung, the 61st seed, is the highest seeded players remaining.
Miyazato won the fifth and sixth to go 1-up. She later won the 11th to move 2- up, but Christina Kim won the 12th. Miyazato again moved 2-up with a birdie on 16 and she won the match as they both parred the 17th.
Hung was 2-up after four, but Koch would not go away easily. A four-time Solheim Cup performer for the European squad, Koch won the 17th and 18th to force extra holes. However, she bogeyed the 19th to lose 1-down.
Seon Hwa-Lee led all the way as she defeated Laura Davies 2 & 1. Lee, the 22nd seed, moves on to battle 35th-seed Lindsey Wright.
Lee took the first with a bogey and the fourth with birdie for the early lead. A par on the ninth pushed her lead to 3-up. Davies did win No. 14, but she was unable to overcome the 2-down deficit from there.
Wright, who beat Annika Sorenstam in round two Friday, birdied the par-three 17th to claim a 1-up win over former Women's British Open champion Jeong Jang. Wright, who was 2-down after two, claimed the sixth and seventh to square the match.
The duo traded wins on 12 and 13 before Wright's late birdie gave her the win.
The last quarterfinal match will feature 40th-seed Maria Hjorth and 33rd-seed Meaghan Francella.
Hjorth birdied the 19th hole to down Angela Stanford. Hjorth was 1-up through seven, but Stanford birdied the 12th to even the match. They traded wins on 14 and 15 before Hjorth birdied the 19th to advance.
Francella, who took down Lorena Ochoa in the second round Friday, won the first two holes Saturday and eventually held on for a 2 & 1 win over four-time U.S. Solheim Cupper Pat Hurst.
They battled back and forth through the front nine as no holes were halved. Hurst actually led 1-up after nine, but Francella won three straight from the 13th, with a birdie and two pars, to pull 2-up. She moved on as they matched pars on 16 and 17.