Sports in Brief

Men’s Golf

The eighth-ranked UNM men’s golf team captured its second tournament title of the season, shattering several school records en route to victory at the John Burns Intercollegiate in Honolulu, Hawaii, Friday.

UNM carded a final round nine-under par 279 to finish with a 32-under par score of 832, five strokes ahead of Auburn University, which shot an 837. The Lobos’ three-round score smashed the previous school record for a 54-hole event by 10 strokes. The previous standard had been 842 at the 1998 John Burns and the 1996 Western Athletic Conference Championships. Friday’s round was tied for the sixth-lowest team score in school history, one day after UNM established a new school mark with a 271 (-17) in the second round.

Sophomore Michael Letzig led the barrage, winning medal honors for the first time in his career, as he shot a final round 69 to finish at 17-under par 199. His score broke the nine-year old school record of 201 for a 54-hole event, set by current PGA star Tim Herron in the 1992 William H. Tucker Intercollegiate.

Letzig joined teammate Rob Kortan, who won the Pepperdine Intercollegiate in October, as the only Lobos to win individual tournaments this season.

UNM will compete at the Southwestern Intercollegiate in Los Angeles, Calif., March 5-6.

Skiing

Freshman Marte Dolva set a new NCAA record by placing first in both alpine events at the NCAA West Regionals in Breckenridge, Colo. Since women were added to NCAA skiing in 1980, the Rocky Mountain Intercollegiate Ski Association has never had a double winner at the regional championships.

Dolva won the giant slalom event with a time of 2:02.49 and the slalom with a time of 1:28.66.

She has had two other first-place finishes this season. Her first was at the University of Utah Invitational Jan. 7, where she took first in the slalom with a time of 1:30.41. Her second big win was at the University of Nevada Alpine Invitational Jan. 13-14, where she placed first in the slalom with a time of 1:27.16.