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Rebels Headed To West Regional
MWC Champions earn second-straight regional invitation.
April 25, 2005 LAS VEGAS - Fresh off its second-straight Mountain West Conference Championship, the UNLV women's golf team learned on Monday that it is headed to the NCAA West Regional in Las Cruces, N.M., the NCAA announced. New Mexico State University will host the regional and it will be played on the New Mexico State University Golf Course. Eight teams and two individuals will advance from each region. The Rebels earned the league's automatic spot in the tournament after winning the conference championship last weekend by two strokes over New Mexico. Elena Kurokawa, who was named the MWC Player of the Year on Sunday, won medalist honors with a one-over 214. This year's trip to the West Regional marks the second-straight time that UNLV has fielded an entire team at a NCAA Regional in the program's four-year history. Last year the Rebels finished second in the East Regional to Duke. UNLV will be joined in the field by fellow MWC-members BYU and Colorado State along with Pac-10 champion UCLA and Big-12 champion Oklahoma State. The three-day, 54-hole regional starts on May 5 on the par-72, 6,119-yard course. Teams: 1. UCLA (Pacific-10 Conference) 2. Georgia 3. Oklahoma State (Big 12 Conference) 4. Tennessee 5. Southern California 6. Arizona 7. California 8. Washington State 9. Stanford 10. UNLV (Mountain West Conference) 11. Oregon 12. San Francisco 13. UC Irvine (Big West Conference) 14. Brigham Young 15. Colorado State 16. Portland State (Big Sky Conference) 17. Northwestern 18. Oral Roberts (Mid-Continent Conference) 19. Illinois State (Missouri Valley Conference) 20. Georgia State (Atlantic Sun Conference) 21. Denver (Sun Belt Conference)
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