Feb. 20, 2006
The 23rd-ranked New Mexico women’s golf team was tied for 10th place at the Wildcat Invitational after play was suspended today due to darkness. The teams will complete the second round Tuesday morning followed by the final round of the exclusive tournament being contested at the Arizona National Golf Club in Tucson. Complete stats and live scoring are available at www.golfstat.com.
The 18-team field has 15 ranked schools competing, including seven currently in the top-10.
The Lobos and No. 14 Tennessee were at 16-over-par, although New Mexico was ahead of four teams – No. 4 Georgia, No. 10 Vanderbilt, No. 15 Washington and No. 16 Stanford – ranked higher in the most recent national poll.
No. 9 Arizona State had the team lead at 5-under-par, two shots better than 12th-ranked UNLV. Top-ranked Duke is third at 1-under.
Playing with three freshmen and two sophomores, the Lobos shot a first-round 10-over 294 on the par-71, 6,166-yard layout. They had improved to 6-over in the second round with seven individual holes remaining.
The individual leader is Cal’s Sophia Sheridan, who is at 7-under-par with two holes left in the second round. She leads Arizona State’s Jennifer Osborn by two shots.
Lobo sophomore Alexandra Phelps (Albuquerque Eldorado HS) is tied for 13th place at even par with one hole remaining in her second round. She was one-under on her afternoon round with the par-4 eighth hole left.
Freshman Mikaela Backstedt, playing in her first tournament of the spring after recovering from a broken left thumb, was the only Lobo to get through all 36 holes. She’s tied for 31st at 3-over 145.
Sophomore Giselle Claux is 6-over and tied for 49th. Freshman Py Bengtsson is tied for 54th at 7-over while freshman Morgan Grantham is at 17-over.