It's Wake Forest, not Stanford, that's still perfect as Deacs beat Card for Stephens Cup

Stanford’s perfect season is already over.

Wake Forest’s is still alive.

A day after the Cardinal dropped their first stroke-play competition in 535 days, the top-ranked women’s team in the country fell to the Demon Deacons, 3-2, in the match-play final of the Jackson T. Stephens Cup on Wednesday at Shoreacres outside of Chicago.

Wake’s lone senior, Anne-Sterre den Dunnen, took Stanford senior Kelly Xu to 21 holes before earning the clinching point. Transfers Casey Weidenfeld and Morgan Ketchum also won their matches as the Demon Deacons knocked off a team boasting four of the top six amateurs in the world.

“They showed that they can win, obviously, but everyone here contributes, and that’s what’s so amazing about this team,” said Wake head coach Kim Lewellen, whose squad captured last