Baseball
Ruidoso Downs Race Track and Casino owner R.D. Hubbard and his wife Joan Dale donated $500,000 to the Lobo baseball team for a new clubhouse, UNM announced Thursday.
According to a release, the donation is the largest to date for recent renovations to Lobo Field. The clubhouse, pending UNM Board of Regents approval, will be named after the Hubbards.
The clubhouse will feature locker rooms, restrooms, a training room, storage and a players’ lounge, the release stated. Ground on the new facility next to Lobo Field is scheduled to break in early 2014. So far, Lobo Field has seen $3.5 million in upgrades.
“I am blown away by the incredible generosity of R.D. and Joan Dale,” UNM baseball coach Ray Birmingham said. “Our ballpark has received an incredible facelift over the last year and the new clubhouse is the next step in completely upgrading Lobo Field.”
Tennis
The UNM men’s and women’s tennis teams will host the Korean Junior National Team today at the Linda Estes Tennis Complex.
The duels are scheduled to take place at 10 a.m., and again at 2 p.m. with three men’s singles matches, three women’s singles matches, one men’s doubles match, one women’s double match and one co-ed doubles match.
The Korean team, featuring three boys and three girls under the age of 18, are coached by former UNM and Highland High School player Doug MacCurdy.
“It should be competitive, high-level tennis,” UNM women’s coach Erica Perkins Jasper said.
The UNM women host the matches following the competition at the Aggie Invitational over the weekend. At that tournament, Lobo freshmen Rachana Bhat and Madison Porter won the Laguna Bracket doubles championship, while freshman Lizette Blankers captured the Zuni Singles bracket title.
The Lobo men, meanwhile, competed at the Racquet Club Collegiate Invitational in Midland, Texas, where freshman Rodolfo Juaregui finished in the men’s consolation finals.
Men’s Golf
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Paced by a seventh-place finish by junior Gavin Green, the UNM men’s golf team took fourth place at the Golfweek Conference Challenge held at Spirit Hollow Golf Club in Burlington, Iowa.
As a team, the Lobos earned a three-day score of 867. Oklahoma won the team title with an 857, followed by Virginia Tech (861) and Houston (866).
Green carded a 214 over three days, while teammate sophomore Joseph Abella had a 217, freshman Andrej Bevins scored a 219, junior Sean Romero finished with a 222 and junior Victor Perez posted a 225.
