DENTON, Texas \u2013\u00a0The North Texas men’s and women’s golf teams are both headed to Fayetteville, Ark., this weekend to compete in the Blessings Collegiate Invitational at Blessings Golf Club.<\/p>\n
The three-day event hosted by Arkansas begins Saturday morning and runs through Monday, with each Mean Green squad competing in separate nine-team fields.<\/p>\n
The UNT men enter the weekend with momentum after a runner-up finish last time out at the Argent Financial Classic. A lineup of Mitchell Maier<\/a>, Arjun Singh Bhatia<\/a>, Connor Bryce<\/a>, Dion Regan<\/a> and Rayhan Latief<\/a> are set to compete against a field featuring Arkansas, Kansas State, Little Rock, Middle Tennessee, Nebraska, Oral Roberts, Southern Miss and UNC Greensboro.<\/p>\n The Mean Green will be paired with Middle Tennessee and UNC Greensboro for Saturday’s opening round and tee off on the 10th hole at 8:35 a.m.<\/p>\n On the women’s side, North Texas returns to action after hosting its season opener, The Bruzzy, back on Sept. 8-9. There, it posted a 54-hole score of 866 (+2) to take eighth place.<\/p>\n True freshman Siena Nieto<\/a> led UNT in her collegiate debut, tying for 20th through a 3-under 213. After opening with a 74, Nieto played her final 36 holes at 5-under with rounds of 69 and 70.<\/p>\n Nieto will be joined in Fayetteville by Bouquet Subsomboon<\/a>, Marin Fujiyasu<\/a>, Reicherin Hanslkie<\/a> and Victoria Georgieva<\/a>, giving the Mean Green the same five-player lineup that competed at The Bruzzy. The opposing field includes Arkansas, Alabama, Cincinnati, Kansas State, Kent State, Minnesota, Princeton and Rice.<\/p>\n North Texas’ women will play alongside Princeton and Cincinnati in Saturday’s opening round and are scheduled to tee off at 10:05 am. on hole No. 1.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"DENTON, Texas \u2013\u00a0The North Texas men’s and women’s golf teams are both headed to Fayetteville, Ark., this weekend…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":455238,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[27,29,28],"class_list":["post-455237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/455237","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=455237"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/455237\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/455238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=455237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=455237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=455237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}