Meiji Chocolate Cup Saturday: Eun-Bi Jang Catches Miho Koga at -11

Eun-Bi Jang fired a bogey-free 65 today in the Meiji Chocolate Cup to catch 1st-round leader Miho Koga at -11. The co-leaders have opened up a 2-shot gap on the LPGA's Shanshan Feng, who birdied 6 of her last 14 holes to put herself in position for her best-ever finish on the JLPGA since joining the tour this season. Her LPGA compatriots Inbee Park and Teresa Lu didn't fare nearly so well, missing the cut by failing to get under par through 36 holes. Pretty unexpected that Shiho Oyama and Soo-Yun Kang would be the LPGAers within 5 shots of the lead rather than Park or Lu. And that Harukyo Nomura would keep rolling on the JLPGA in only her 3rd start as a pro. In any case, it should be an interesting showdown tomorrow!

Here's how the leaders and notables stand heading into the final round:

T1/-11 Eun-Bi Jang (68-65), Miho Koga (63-70)
3rd/-9 Shanshan Feng (68-67)
4th/-8 Eun-A Lim (69-67)
T5/-7 Erika Kikuchi (69-68), Miki Uehara (69-68), Nachiyo Ohtani (68-69)
T8/-6 Ji-Na Lim (74-64), Shiho Oyama (71-67), Soo-Yun Kang (68-70), Yuki Ichinose (67-71)

T12/-5 Bo-Mee Lee (71-68), Harukyo Nomura (70-69), Onnarin Sattayabanphot (70-69), Yuri Fudoh (69-70), Rui Kitada (69-70), Hyun-Ju Shin (67-72)
T19/-4 Rikako Morita (72-68), Asako Fujimoto (72-68), Bo-Bae Song (71-69), Esther Lee (71-69), Mika Takushima (70-70), Mayu Hattori (69-71), Ah-Reum Hwang (68-72)
T27/-3 Kaori Aoyama (74-67), Na-Ri Lee (72-69), Miki Saiki (71-70), Kumiko Kaneda (70-71), Chie Arimura (68-73)
T33/-2 Akane Iijima (75-67), Ji-Hee Lee (72-70), Mi-Jeong Jeon (72-70), Ji-Woo Lee (72-70), Maiko Wakabayashi (72-70), Tamie Durdin (70-72), Megumi Kido (70-72), Li-Ying Ye (69-73)
T47/-1 Saiki Fujita (75-68), Yun-Jye Wei (73-70), Aoi Nagata (73-70), Ritsuko Ryu (72-71), So-Hee Kim (72-71), Aiko Ueno (70-73), Junko Omote (69-74)

MC: Na-Ri Kim (74-70), Akiko Fukushima (73-71), Julie Lu (71-73), Inbee Park (75-70), Young Kim (73-72), Yuki Sakurai (73-72), Erina Yamato (73-72), Yukari Baba (75-71), Nikki Campbell (74-72), Lala Anai (74-72), Yumiko Yoshida (73-73), Mie Nakata (72-74), Shinobu Moromizato (74-73), Teresa Lu (73-74), Kaori Ohe (73-74), Yuko Mitsuka (69-78), Jae-Hee Bae (69-78), Ayako Uehara (75-73), Erina Hara (75-73), Miki Sakai (73-76), Pei-Ying Tsai (77-73), Sakurako Mori (74-76)