PEORIA, ARIZONA (UNLVRebels.com) - The UNLV women's golf team continued its strong play to start the spring, tying for second after carding a 7-under 569 through the first two rounds of Wisconsin's Westbrook Invitational Sunday at the Westbrook Village Golf Club (par 72, 6,230) in Peoria. Freshman Kendall Todd picked up where she left off after a runner-up finish at The Show two weeks ago, matching her season single-round low of 5-under 67 in round one to sit tied for first at 7-under with Mississippi State's Julia Lopez Ramirez.

UNLV led the field after an opening round 7-under 281 and shot even in round two, marking an under par score in eight of its last 14 rounds. Joining Todd in the top 25 was fellow freshmen Sydney Bryan in a tie for 15th at 1-under 143 and Toa Yokoyama in a tie for 22nd at even. Junior Nicole Lorup and freshman Hina Matsui, an individual competitor, are tied for 33rd at 2-over followed by senior Veronica Joels in a tie for 38th at 3-over. 

The MSU Bulldogs edged out UNLV and Nebraska by two strokes to take a lead into Monday's final round at 9-under 567. Washington State checked in at fourth place at 1-under 575 and MInnesota rounded out the top five at even 576. Behind Todd and Lopez Ramirez Oklahoma's Libby Winans in third at 6-under, followed by three golfers - Nebraska's Vanessa Bouvet, Notre Dame's Chloe Schiavone and College of Charleston's Viktoria Hund - in a tie for fourth at 4-under.

UP NEXT: The third and final round will begin with a shotgun start Monday morning at 8:30 a.m. MT.

LIVE SCORING: Live scoring will be available on Golfstat: https://results.golfstat.com/public/leaderboards/gsnav.cfm?pg=participants&tid=24074

NOTES:
• Rebels have won three of their last four tournaments and finished at par or better in four straight, a new program record
• UNLV has shot under par as a team in eight of its last 14 rounds in 2021-22
• UNLV shot an 8-under 280 in the final round of the fall (eighth lowest all-time) and opened the spring with a 12-under 276 at The Show (T-3rd lowest all-time) 
• UNLV won two tournaments during the fall portion of its season for the first time in program history (Dale McNamara & The Clash at Boulder Creek)
• The Rebels won the 2021 Dale McNamara Invitational Oct 11-12 in Tulsa, Oklahoma by 11 strokes, marking first tournament win since 2019 (Las Vegas Collegiate Showdown); Three Rebels finished in the top six with freshman Sydney Bryan winning her first collegiate tournament at 4-under 212
• UNLV finished at 3-under at the Jim West Invitational, marking the first time the Rebels finished under par in back-to-back tournaments since the spring of 2017 and has a chance to finish at par or better in four straight tournaments 
• UNLV has six returners from last year's squad and welcomed seven newcomers to the squad this year, including six freshmen
• Marissa Uradomo, a four-time MVC All-Conference golfer at Indiana State, joined Bush-Herzer's staff as an assistant coach in September of 2021
• Head coach Amy Bush-Herzer is in her 11th year at the helm of the program. She has led her team to a conference championship four times.