An octet of players - that would be eight of them - posted 68 today to tie for the lead at the Lorena Ochoa Invitational.  Annika Sorenstam, Yani Tseng, Seon Hwa Lee, Angela Stanford, Hee-Won Han, Karen Stupples, Nicole Castrale and Brittany Lang lead the way with four other players one shot behind.  The rest of the scores are after the jump:

69  Na Yeon Choi, Jee Young Lee, Sophie Gustafson, Meena Lee

70  Helen Alfredsson, In-Kyung Kim, Laura Diaz, Ji Young Oh

70  Christina Kim, Sun Young Yoo

71  Cristie Kerr, Eun-Hee Ji, Katherine Hull, Juli Inkster

72  Teresa Lu

73  Lorena Ochoa, Jeong Jang, Song-Hee Kim, Angela Park

74  Inbee Park, Maria Hjorth, Candie Kung, Jane Park, Marisa Baena

75  Paula Creamer, Suzann Pettersen, Laura Davies

76  Sophia Sheridan

Sorenstam chipped in for birdies at 12 and 18.  Stupples eagled the par-4 14^th while Seon Hwa carded a more conventional one at the par-5 3^rd hole.  Han and Castrale were the only leaders to play bogey-free.  Lang birdied four of the last five holes to reach -4.

Ochoa had to birdie 18 - only her second of the day - to get home in 73.  The Golf Channel commentators mentioned one factor which might have been working against Lorena today - she usually plays Guadalahara CC from "the tips" so the shorter yardages of the LPGA setup could have thrown off her home-course advantage!

As might be expected, Futures Tour invitee Sophia Sheridan brought up the rear but she actually was quite competitive with Ochoa and Creamer in the final group and stayed within a shot of her more famous playing partners the entire day.  A double-bogey at 8 was Sophia's primary undoing.