SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. – Arizona sophomore Gile Bite Starkute had just hit a beautiful approach onto the back fringe, about 25 feet from the hole, in her extra-hole battle with Stanford’s Angelina Ye when Wildcats head coach Laura Ianello turned to her team’s trainer and said, “Let’s Bianca this.”
The unique verb has become legend around Tucson after Bianca Pagdanganan’s clutch eagle putt that got the Wildcats into a playoff for match play three years ago at Karsten Creek and sparked an eventual NCAA title-winning run.
Starkute remembers watching Pagdanganan’s heroics from 2018, though the then Arizona verbal commitment had to settle for highlights.