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Lobo Women’s Golf Travels to Texas for Red Raider Invitational

by Steve Kirkland

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – The New Mexico women’s golf team travels to Texas this week for the Red Raider Invitational. The event, hosted by Texas Tech, will be played Tuesday and Wednesday at the 6,894 yard-par 72 The Rawls Course.

The first two rounds of the tournament will be played on Tuesday, beginning with a shotgun start at 9:00 a.m. CT. The final round will be Wednesday, also starting with a 9:00 a.m. shotgun start. Live scoring will be available on Scoreboard.

The tournament will consist of a 16-team field, as New Mexico is joined by host Texas Tech, Abilene Christian, BYU, Campbell, Houston Christian, Incarnate Word, Kent State, Nebraska, New Mexico State, SMU, Texas A&M-Corpus Christi, UNLV, UT Rio Grande Valley, UTSA and UTEP.

New Mexico’s lineup for the event is Lisa-Marie Pagliano, Maria Garcia, Annie Saechueng, Maria Caparros Levin and Ciara Rushmer. Rebecca Galasso will also compete as an individual.

The Lobos are competing in the Red Raider Invitational for the first time since 2015-16, when UNM finished 8th in Lubbock. The Rawls Course is also one of the six sites of NCAA Regionals this season.

New Mexico opened the season with a 10th place finish earlier this month when it hosted the Branch Law Firm/Dick McGuire Invitational.