March 7, 2005

LAS VEGAS - UNLV women's golf is looking for consistency as the Rebels head to their third spring tournament, the Spartan Invitational hosted by San Jose State.

The 54-hole tournament gets underway Tuesday with 36 holes being played on the par-72, 5,826 yard course at Corral De Tierra Country Club in Salinas, Calif.

UNLV head coach Missy Ringler's lineup will be made up of Hwanhee Lee, Elena Kurokawa, Seema Sadekar, Young Pak and Christine Hentzner.

The Rebels have had mixed success through its first two tournaments of the spring as consistency has been a problem. Every individual player in the Rebels' lineup have played solid rounds in the spring, highlighted by Kurokawa's three-under 68 at the Wildcat Invitational two weeks ago. But the entire team has yet to play a tournament where every player shots solid scores through three rounds.

UNLV finished eighth at the Wildcat Invitational but opened the spring with a 14th-place finish at the Northrop Grumman Invitational at the beginning of February.

The Rebels will be one of 15 teams in the field at the Spartan Invitational that also includes No. 5 Washington and No. 6 UCLA and Mountain West Conference members BYU and Colorado State. The Bruins won the tournament last year with a three-round score of 858 and last year's medalist, Charlotte Mayorkas, also of UCLA, will be defending her title.

Tuesday's opening rounds get underway at 8:00 a.m. (PST) with a shotgun start. After completion of that opening round, the second round will begin. The teams will close the tournament with 18 holes on Wednesday.