Angela Stanford led all scorers with a 66 (-10 overall) to take a two-shot lead at the Lorena Ochoa Invitational.  Yani Tseng is in second place at -8, Meena Lee is in third place at -6 while Karen Stupples is fourth at -5.

Stanford birdied seven times with one bogey (a short par miss at 12) to reach double digits.  Tseng posted her second straight 68 while Lee overcame three bogeys to put up her second straight 69.  Stupples birdied 18 to post 71, this while playing with a broken toe on her right foot.  She says it only bothers her on downhill lies and actually helps remind her to keep her heel planted during the shot.  These players constantly amaze me!

Holes 15 through 17 seem to be the gauntlet at Guadalahara CC.  Nicole Castrale can vouch for that - two good chip shots that rolled a little too far past cost her bogeys at 15 and 16, and then an air-mailed tee shot at 17 cost her another as she fell from -7 to -4.  The hostess was working her way back nicely from Thursday's 73 - at -2 through 16 - but bogeys at 17 and 18 left Lorena at even par and T22.  Annika Sorenstam suffered the same end to her day but those two finishing bogeys (and three over her last four) only dropped her to -4 T5.  Among those making a good Friday move were Juli Inkster (69 -4 T5) and Jeong Jang (68 -3 T11).  Hee-Won Han (73 -3 T11), Brittany Lang (74 -2 T15) and Na Yeon Choi (74 -1 T17) had the opposite feeling at the close of their rounds.

It's a little early to be saying this but if Stanford doesn't falter any on Saturday, a lot of players could only be playing out the string on Sunday.  As it stands now, only three players are closer than six shots from Angela's halfway-point mark.