Sports briefs

Men’s Golf

The New Mexico men’s golf team will begin playing in the NCAA Championships today at the Capital City Club in Atlanta.

The Five Lobos will compete as a team. They are seniors James Erkenbeck, Benjamin Bauch, Gavin Green, and sophomore Victor Perez.

The tournament, which runs through June 2, features 54 holes of stroke play. The top eight teams in stroke play will advance to three days of match play, which will determine the national champion.

UNM earned its bid to the championships after winning the NCAA Columbus Regional on May 18. The Lobos shot a three-day score of 870 and beat Auburn and South Carolina by two strokes. Erkenbeck won the regional individual title with a 3-under 210.

“We know if we play well again, we’ll have a chance to get to the final eight,” Erkenbeck said in a release. “If we do that, anything can happen.”

Track and Field

Six UNM athletes qualified to the NCAA Championships following the NCAA West Preliminary meet held over the weekend in Austin, Texas.

Senior Josephine Moultrie, junior Charlotte Arter, junior Chloe Anderson, senior Floyd Ross, junior Luke Caldwell and junior Django Lovell will compete at the NCAA Division I Outdoor Track and Field Championships scheduled for June 5-8 in Eugene, Ore.

In order to automatically qualify for the NCAA finals, an athlete must finish in the top five in his or her event section.

Moultire, Arter and Anderson all qualified in the 1,500-meter run. Moultrie took third in her heat at the preliminary meet in 4 minutes, 19.03 seconds, while Arter was fifth in that heat in 4:20.04. Anderson earned one of two at-large bids with a 4:20.64 meet.

Caldwell clocked 14:12.27 and was third in his 5,000 section, Ross leapt 52 feet, 8 inches in the triple jump and Lovett had a 7-1 mark in the high jump.