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NCAA Raleigh Regional
Wolfpack Women's Golf Punches Ticket to NCAA Championships
5/10/2023 3:57:00 PM | Women's Golf
NC State places second in home regional to advance to final nationals site
RALEIGH — For the first time since the 2014-15 season, NC State is headed to the NCAA Women's Golf Championships after placing second in the Raleigh Regional with a cumulative team score of 861 (-3).
The Wolfpack took huge advantage of the familiarity with its home course as it entered the regional as the eight seed before earning a top-five finish to secure advancement to the final NCAA Championships site. Arizona (859, -5), Wake Forest (864, E), TCU (866, +2) and Florida State (870, +6) also move on out of the Raleigh Regional.
NC State made plenty of history this week with its highest regional finish ever, its second-best 54-hole NCAA Tournament score of all time and Lauren Olivares Leon setting both 18-hole (67, -5) and 54-hole (208, -8) individual postseason program records. This was the Pack's second time in 20 NCAA regional appearances finishing with an under-par team score, and the team's opening day 282 was the second-best round by any team in the field all week.
All three of the Olivares Leon's scores in the regional came in under par as the Wolfpack sophomore shot two-under (70) in Wednesday's round to finish eight-under (208) for the week. She tied for second individually, which is the best regional finish by a Wolfpack player in program history.
Natalie Armbruester closed out her regional run with her best score in the final round, a 70 (-2) that was highlighted by four birdies in the first seven holes.
NC STATE SCORES
T2. Lauren Olivares Leon: 67-71-70=208 (-8)
T14. Natalie Armbruester: 72-75-70=217 (+1)
T24. Vania Simont: 74-72-73=219 (+3)
T58. Caitlin Whitehead: 81-81-78=240 (+24)
Isabel Amezcua: 69-70-DQ
TEAM LEADERBOARD
1. Arizona: 286-292-281=859 (-5)
2. NC State: 282-288-291=861 (-3)
3. Wake Forest: 292-285-287=864 (E)
4. TCU: 292-288-286=866 (+2)
5. Florida State: 283-296-291=870 (+6)
6. Purdue: 287-291-295=873 (+9)
7. Arizona State: 284-288-302=874 (+10)
8. Florida: 290-293-295=878 (+14)
9. Nebraska: 296-302-295=893 (+29)
10. Campbell: 297-299-305=901 (+37)
11. North Texas: 308-299-304=911 (+47)
12. Richmond: 310-308-325=943 (+79)
NC State will be one of 30 teams in action at the NCAA Championships held at Grayhawk Golf Club in Scottsdale, Ariz., from May 19-24. All 30 teams will participate in three rounds (54 holes) of stroke play from May 19-21. After those three rounds, the top 15 teams and top nine individuals not on an advancing team will have a final round of stroke play on Monday, May 22 after which an individual champion will be crowned and the top eight teams will be determined for match play. National television coverage of the match play portion of the event will be provided by the GOLF Channel.
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