Women's Golf | 4/7/2016 1:16:00 PM

SAN MARCOS, Texas – Beginning Friday morning, the Texas State women's golf team will compete in one more regular season tournament at the 2016 Red Raider Invitational hosted by Texas Tech. The Bobcats will compete against 13 other schools in a 54-hole event beginning at 9:00 a.m. Friday morning at The Rawls Course in Lubbock, Texas.
 
Competitors at the event in addition to Texas State and host school Texas Tech include BYU, Cal Poly, Colorado State, Iowa, Kansas, Kansas State, New Mexico, New Mexico State, North Texas, Purdue, SMU, and Tulsa. Five of the 14 competitors rank in the top 50 in the Golfstat ratings and 11 of the teams are inside the top 100.
 
Teams will play two rounds Friday with a shotgun start and one round on Saturday morning. The Rawls Course is a par 72 track laid out at 6,541 yards. The course was completed in 2003 and is home to the Texas Tech Red Raiders.
 
The Bobcats are coming off of the San Diego State Match Play Championship where the Bobcats defeated UC Davis and fell 3 & 2 in three matches against tough competition including the reigning national champion in Stanford.
 
Coming into the final weekend of the regular season, Texas State has three of the top six golfers in the Sun Belt Conference. Lora Assad leads the team with a scoring average of 73.95 and a low round of 67.
 
Live scoring for the event can be found at www.golfstat.com. A complete recap of Friday and Saturday's rounds will be available at www.txstatebobcats.com.