Jerilyn White knew she could do the limbo. She knew she could go low.
White has consistently shot rounds of 74, 72 and even 70 over her career, but has never gone low enough to win a tournament.
Arguably the best Oregon golfer ever without an individual title to her name, White shot a career-low 68 Saturday at the Peg Barnard California Collegiate to win medalist honors for the first time.
Oh, and she led the Ducks to fifth-place in the 11-team field, their best finish of the season coming at just the right time with the Pacific-10 Conference championships taking place in one week.
White’s composite score of 144 over the two-round tournament was good enough to lead her past Stanford’s Stephanie Keever and San Jose State’s Jessica Krantz, who both shot 147’s.
“I couldn’t be more proud of Jerilyn,” Oregon head coach Shannon Rouillard said. “She wanted to conquer this course and she sure did.”
Oregon golfers Megan Heckeroth (155, 21st), Kathy Cho (161, 32nd), Lacy Erickson (164, 46th) and Dawn Berry (166, 52nd) helped the Ducks as well.
Stanford won the Peg Barnard, which was held at the Cardinal’s own Stanford Golf Course. San Jose State, California and Washington rounded out the top five teams.
The Ducks will travel to the Pac-10 Championships in Tempe, Ariz., April 23-25.

Men near-last in Arizona
Last week, the Oregon men’s golf team blew out its competition at the Western Intercollegiate, winning by a whopping 17 strokes.
But this weekend the Ducks wrote an entirely different story, placing 19th of 22 teams at the Thunderbird Invitational in Tempe.
Oregon finished more than 17 strokes — such a magical number just a week ago — behind the 13th-placed team.
The Ducks were led by Aaron Byers, who shot a respectable 218 over the three-round tournament to end up in 60th place overall. Matt Genovese, John Ellis, Chris Carnahan and Mike Sica also placed for the Ducks.
Arizona State won their own tournament, thanks in large part to Jeff Quinney’s course-record 62 in the final round. Quinney, a Eugene native and U.S. Amateur Champion, competed in the Masters at Augusta National Golf Course last week.
The Oregon golfers will compete in the U.S. Intercollegiate at the Stanford Golf Course next weekend before the Pac-10 Championships on the same course the weekend after that.