{"id":469957,"date":"2026-10-18T20:30:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-18T20:30:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/469957\/"},"modified":"2026-10-18T20:30:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-18T20:30:09","slug":"bulldogs-head-to-texas-for-the-fin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/469957\/","title":{"rendered":"Bulldogs Head To Texas For The Fin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>STARKVILLE \u2013 Mississippi State women&#8217;s golf is set to travel to Fairfield, Texas, to compete in The Fin. The competition will be played at Freestone Golf Club and is scheduled to tee off on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>The Bulldogs enter the tournament looking to carry over strong fall momentum after a dominant stretch of three straight top 3 finishes to open the season which included a team championship at the Mason Rudolph Championship. State will turn to a tested lineup to lead the charge this week in the Lone Star State.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/hailstate.com\/sports\/womens-golf\/roster\/avery-weed\/13287\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"13287\" target=\"_blank\">Avery Weed<\/a> will sit at the top of the Bulldog lineup once again. The senior standout has started the season with a T5 finish in two of the first three tournaments<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/hailstate.com\/sports\/womens-golf\/roster\/samantha-whateley\/13288\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"13288\" target=\"_blank\">Samantha Whateley<\/a> will swing out of the second position for State. The senior from Johannesburg, South Africa, looks to continue a strong fall campaign following a top-ten finish at The Ally and a top-five performance at the Mason Rudolph Championship.<\/p>\n<p>Sophomore <a href=\"https:\/\/hailstate.com\/sports\/womens-golf\/roster\/moa-stridh\/13285\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"13285\" target=\"_blank\">Moa Stridh<\/a> will once again occupy the middle of the lineup in the third spot. Stridh earned her best finish of the season at the Mason Rudolph Championship at T9.<\/p>\n<p>Junior <a href=\"https:\/\/hailstate.com\/sports\/womens-golf\/roster\/alona-avery\/13289\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"13289\" target=\"_blank\">Alona Avery<\/a> will tee off in the fourth position for Mississippi State and will make her third appearance for the Bulldogs on Monday. She has fired two par or better rounds so far this season.<\/p>\n<p>Sophomore <a href=\"https:\/\/hailstate.com\/sports\/womens-golf\/roster\/alicia-bellendir\/13283\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"13283\" target=\"_blank\">Alicia Bellendir<\/a> will round out the Bulldog five this week. Bellendir, a Texas native returns to her home state on a hot streak, having started her collegiate career with three straight finishes inside the top 11.<\/p>\n<p>Live scoring for The Fin is available at <a href=\"https:\/\/scoreboard.clippd.com\/tournaments\/246485\/scoring\/team\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">scoreboard.clippd.com<\/a>.<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" height=\"2\" src=\"https:\/\/hailstate.com\/news\/2026\/10\/18\/file:\/\/\/C:\/Users\/ws781\/AppData\/Local\/Temp\/msohtmlclip1\/01\/clip_image001.gif\" style=\"display: inline-block;\" width=\"624\"\/><br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nVisit\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.hailstate.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">www.HailState.com<\/a>\u00a0for the latest news and information on women&#8217;s golf. Fans can also follow the program on social media by searching &#8216;HailStateWG&#8217; on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/HailStateWG\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">X<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/HailStateWG\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/hailstatewg\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Instagram<\/a>.<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"STARKVILLE \u2013 Mississippi State women&#8217;s golf is set to travel to Fairfield, Texas, to compete in The Fin.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":469958,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[27,29,28],"class_list":["post-469957","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\/469957","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=469957"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469957\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/469958"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=469957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=469957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=469957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}