Tech, which was tied for sixth place after shooting 15-over par in the opening round, shot up the leaderboard with a 1-under team score in second round.

The Red Raiders and Southeastern Louisiana have a one-stroke lead over Tulsa.

Tech’s Nils Floren is tied for fifth place individually and only two strokes off the lead, while Brian Scherer and Matt Smith are tied for 12th place. Chris Ward and Tyler Weworski, who posted a tournament-low 66 in the second round, are tied for 22nd place.

The Red Raiders began the third round in a seventh-place tie and held onto the spot after carding a 1-under 287 Friday. Chris Ward fired a 2-under 70 to lead three players at par or better. Nils Floren bounced back with a final-round 72 after shooting a 77 in the second round and falling out of a first-place tie. Floren finished in a 19th-place tie, while Ward was close behind tied in 21st place.

Six of the nation’s top 10 players were among the field, including Floren, who entered the event at No. 7. He finished ahead of the nation’s Nos. 1, 2 and 5 players.

Stanford won the team title by three strokes.

The last time the Red Raiders competed was more than three months ago at the Isleworth Collegiate Invitational in Windermere, Fla., where Tech finished eighth in a 15-team field that also included several of the nation’s top 10 teams at the time.

In addition to the Red Raiders, this week’s event features No. 1 Oklahoma State, No. 2 Stanford, No. 3 Arizona State, and No. 5 Florida State.

It is Floren’s second top-five finish in three tournaments this season. He finished four strokes behind second-place Sihwan Kim from Stanford and five strokes back of tournament winner Bud Cauley from Alabama.

As a team, the Red Raiders, ranked 22nd, finished eighth overall, shooting a final-round 300 to finish 36-over 900 for the tournament.

The junior from Sweden finished at 6-under par after a final-round 68, giving him his first career victory. Floren’s older brother, Oscar, won three tournaments during his Tech career.

Tech carded an 870 as a team to finish 11 strokes behind winner Idaho.

Dominguez, a freshman, had a 3-under-par 69 to finish seventh after entering the day tied for 16th.

Floren, a junior, finished three rounds in 6-under 210, sharing the title with Tennessee’s Darren Renwick.

Tech placed eighth in the 12-team field. Tennessee won by 12 strokes. Chattanooga took second and Georgia Tech third.

Tech’s individual results were: Floren 73-69-68—210; Chris Ward 76-68-71—215; Matt Smith 75-72-75—222; Brian Scherer 78-75-77—230; and Tyler Weworski 82-82-76—240.

Ward tied for 11th.

The 54-hole tournament, in which the Red Raiders finished in a tie for eighth place last year, includes eight teams ranked among the top 30 in the Golfweek preseason poll. Tech is ranked 27th.

The Texas Tech men’s golf team is in the midst of its most successful era.

Head coach Greg Sands has guided the Red Raiders to eight straight appearances in NCAA regional tournaments, and they’ve qualified for the NCAA Championships in three of the last four years. This past season, Tech placed second at the Big 12 Conference tournament — its highest finish ever — and had a top-20 national ranking.

Tech athletic director Gerald Myers wants the women’s team to reach similar heights, and he’s counting on JoJo Robertson to make it happen.

Robertson, a 33-year-old native of Roswell, N.M. who has been the associate head coach at Purdue for the last five years, was introduced Thursday as Tech’s new head coach. She replaces Stacey Totman, who was fired in May shortly after the Lady Raiders tied for 11th place in the Big 12 Conference tournament held on their home course.

“I think that probably was something that JoJo looked at — the fact that our men have been successful,” Myers said. “… I think she thought, ‘If they can do that on the men’s side, we can do that on the women’s side as well.’ Usually those things have a way of affecting each other. One successful program, I think, helps the other.”

Robertson said she’s looking forward to working with Sands and “trying to follow the footsteps” of the men’s team. She also said the Lady Raiders have all the necessary ingredients to thrive — from second-to-none practice facilities at The Rawls Course to a strong core of returning players to a deep talent pool in the Texas high school ranks.

Robertson said her expectations will be “pretty high” entering next season, and that she wants Tech to “improve in the Big 12 and be at the top as soon as possible.” Among the four holdovers from this year’s team, Rosayln Kim is coming off a tie for 10th place at the Big 12 tournament.

“It’s a challenge, but I’m definitely looking forward to it,” said Robertson, who plans to focus on course management and her players’ short games. “… I think there’s no question that we’ll be very successful here.”

Robertson also is excited about coming home, at least to an extent. She graduated from Roswell Goddard High School — where she won three individual state championships and was on five title-winning teams coached by her mother, Becky — and her parents and grandparents still live in Roswell.

She said Tech’s proximity to her hometown made the job even more attractive, and makes it a little easier to part ways with her older brother, Greg, who is an assistant coach for the men’s team at Purdue.

“It helped a lot,” said Robertson, whose parents attended Thursday’s news conference. “I only get home once, maybe twice a year, so just being about three hours away is going to be nice.”

Myers said Tech considered several candidates for the job, including current head coaches and up-and-coming assistants. But he said Robertson’s name continued to pop up during the search, primarily because of her track record as both a player and coach.

In addition to her success at the high school level, Robertson also was an all-conference player at Oklahoma State and is a two-time U.S. Women’s Amateur Public Links champion. And during her tenure at Purdue, the Boilermakers won back-to-back Big Ten Conference championships and had four straight top-10 finishes at the NCAA tournament.

“If she could just win one of those conference championships here at Texas Tech,” Myers said, “we would be very excited.”

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