The Utah Valley University women's golf team heads to San Jose, California, for Monday and Tuesday's (Oct. 31-Nov. 1) SCU Colby Invitational. The tournament, which will be contested at the Silver Creek Valley Country Club, will mark UVU's final event of the fall season.
Two rounds of the two-day, 54-hole event will be contested on Monday, while the final 18 holes will be played on Tuesday. Competition begins at 9:15 a.m. MT, each day with a shotgun start. The Silver Creek Valley Country Club will be played at 6,181 yards and par will be set at 72.
Seven teams will compete at the two-day tournament. Besides the Wolverines and host Santa Clara Broncos, CSU Bakersfield, CSUN, IUPUI, Montana State and Weber State will also take part in the event.
UVU enters off a 10th-place finish (out of 15 teams) at Seattle U's Pat Lesser Harbottle Invitational on Oct. 10-11, with a 55-over-par 919 (317-300-302). The 55-over 919 marked the third-best 54-hole team score in school history and the second round 12-over 300 tied the fifth-best single-round score in program history.
Sophomore Ana Raga led the way for the Wolverines at the PLH Invite by tying for 21st place with a 10-over 226 (71-74-81). Raga's 10-over-par 226 tied for the ninth-best 54-hole score in UVU history.
Fellow sophomore Carly Dehlin was next for UVU by tying for 27th with a 12-over 228 (81-72-75), while freshman Justine Lauer too had a solid outing by tying for 35th place with a 15-over 231 (82-77-72).
Raga leads the Wolverines on the year with a 75.56 scoring average. Lauer is next with a 76.44 clip, and Dehlin is right behind her with a 76.67 mark.
Raga, Lauer, Dehlin, senior Kimberly Nyhus and redshirt freshman Isabella Lesa will make up UVU's five participants at the Colby Invite, while fellow Wolverines Monica Yeates and Kaylee Shimizu will take part in the tournament as individuals.
Following the conclusion of the SCU Colby Invitational, UVU is off for the winter months and will return to the links in early March at Northern Arizona's Red Rocks Invitational in Sedona, Arizona.
James Warnick is an assistant sports information director at Utah Valley University. For more information about Wolverine athletics, visit WolverineGreen.com.