Halfway through the 2025 NCAA Women’s Golf Championship, Mississippi State finds itself in a good spot.

The Bulldogs climbed up the leaderboard in Saturday’s second round with a 2-under par team score and sits in sixth place in the tournament (4-over). A large reason for Mississippi State’s standing is Avery Weed, who leads the individual leaderboard ahead of Sunday’s rounds with a 7-under total for the tournament (69, 68).

“Playing in the morning today, we were hoping for a little less wind than we had in the afternoon yesterday, so we felt like we could really go out there and get some birdies early and I did do that,” Weed said when asked about her round. “I started out three under through four, and rode that the rest of the round as the wind kind of got more intense.”

Mississippi State was just one of six teams to shoot under-par in the second round of action.

The Bulldogs are nine stokes above tomorrow’s projected cutline of 13-over, which is currently held by Florida and UCLA. The top 15 teams will advance to play in the fourth round of stroke play. After that fourth round, the top eight of the leaderboard will advance to the match play portion of the tournament and the top player of the leaderboard will be named the NCAA Individual Champion.

The Bulldogs will tee off at 10:20 a.m. in the third round of the tournament Sunday. Here’s the complete team leaderboard and individual scores for Mississippi State golfers:

1. Stanford, -5
2. Northwestern, E
3. Oregon, +1
4. USC, Florida State, +3
6. Mississippi State, +4
7. Texas, Oklahoma State, +5
9. Arizona State, +6
10. South Carolina, +7
11. Virginia, Arkansas, +11
13. Vanderbilt, Tennessee, +12
15. Florida, UCLA, +15
17. LSU, Kansas State, +14
19. Ohio State, +16
20. Michigan State, +21
21. Oklahoma, +2322. Iowa State, +24
23. Kansas, +25
24. Wake Forest, +26
25. Ole Miss, +28
26. Baylor, Purdue +31
28. Georgia Southern, +32
29. CSU Fullerton, +33
30. UNLV, +35

1. Avery Weed (69, 68)
T13. Chiara Horder (73, 70)
T53.Ana Pina Ortega (77, 71)
T103. Samantha Whateley (75, 77)
T141. Izzy Pellor (79, 78)
Par = 72

For the third game in a row, the Missouri Tigers put themselves in a hole early in the game that they couldn’t get out of.

In the final home game and final regular season game of the year, the Tigers were swept in a 12-1 run-rule by Mississippi State. The Bulldogs scored 50 runs across the three-game series.

After getting two outs to kick off his start, Missouri starter Josh McDevitt struggled to close the frame. He allowed three singles, two doubles and a homer before he was pulled. He pitched just 2/3 of an inning and allowed six runs.

The Tigers had to go to their bullpen early for reliever Xavier Lovett, who went 3 1/3 innings in his long relief appearance. He gave up a two-run homer in his first inning, the Bulldogs 14th of the series. The 15th homer led off the fourth inning and Lovett’s final collegiate inning at home.

Two walks and a hit-by-pitch were handed to the Bulldogs by reliever Josh Kirchhoff to start the sixth inning. A fielder’s choice brought in one run and then a double brought the other two home. Another runner reached on an error before the inning concluded.

Unlike their first two games of the series, Mizzou was able to get a run of their own early. But it was just the one. A rough inning from Mississippi State starter Karson Ligon allowed the Tigers to load the bases with just one hit by pairing it with two hit-by pitches to bring a run home on a sacrifice fly from designated hitter Brock Daniels.

The Tigers concluded their historically bad regular season with an overall record of 16-38 and conference record of 3-27. Mizzou finished with the worst conference record ever in a 30 game season. They will face off in Round 1 of the SEC Tournament on Tuesday, May 20 in Hoover, Alabama.

After allowing 25 runs in Game 1 of the series, the Missouri Tigers pitching followed suit from the day before.

The game was put out of reach quite early. The Tigers briefly fought back against the Mississippi State Bulldogs, but then ended the game quietly in a 13-3 run-rule for the series loss. f

By the end of the second inning, the Tigers were already down 8-0. Five runs crossed in the first inning from back-to-back doubles followed by two singles, a hit-by-pitch and a homer. Missouri starter Tony Neubeck then went back out for a second inning and allowed a two-run homer after an error plated the sixth run.

After the ball was turned over to reliever Brock Lucas, the Tigers has one clean inning before the scoring began again. The Bulldogs sent their 10th homer of the series out of the park in the fourth inning.

The 11th of the series made it 12-3 in the third inning and was the last batter that Lucas faced. The Tigers then went to reliever Ben Smith to close out the sixth before handing the ball to usual starter Wil Libbert. Libbert was not expected to pitch in the series, as he was being held for the upcoming SEC tournament.

Run-rule range was achieved in the seventh inning. Libbert allowed the run after back-to-back singles, a walk and then a sacrifice fly brought a Bulldog home.

The Tigers were able to bring home two runs on a pop-up from right fielder Cayden Nicoletto that was dropped by Mississippi State’s shortstop in the bottom of the third inning. This somewhat broke open the Mizzou offense. The Tigers tagged on another run in the fourth and stranded two after two singles and a hit-by-pitch.

The Tigers (16-37, 3-26) will look to avoid a series sweep against the Bulldogs (33-20, 14-15) in Game 3 at 2 p.m. on Friday.