Tuesday, April 11, 2006

 

TUSCULUM FINISHES FOURTH AT SAC TOURNAMENT

 

                HICKORY, N.C. – The Tusculum men’s golf team shot a final-round 310 and a total score of 898 to finish fourth at the 2006 Food Lion South Atlantic Conference Men’s Golf Tournament, hosted at the Lake Hickory Country Club at Catawba Springs.

 

                Lenoir-Rhyne tallied an 877 to win its first SAC title.  Newberry finished 11 strokes off the lead (888) and finished second, while Catawba carded an 895 to place third.

 

                Chase Carroll was the Pioneers’ top finisher, posting a final-round 76 and a 222 for the tournament.  Chris Wynne and Sasha Catron tied for ninth place with a total tally of 224.  Catron’s third-round 75 was TC’s lowest round of the final day of competition.

 

                Nick Kinzer and Dallas Bassen finished tied for 29th with scores of 232.

 

-TC-

 

 

Fin.  Teams                  Scores 

1   Lenoir-Rhyne College     297  283  297    877    

2   Newberry College         301  288  299    888    

3   Catawba College          300  296  299    895    

4   Tusculum College         297  291  310    898    

5   Carson-Newman Coll.      300  304  298    902    

6   Wingate University       310  299  298    907    

7   Presbyterian College     304  303  301    908    

8   Mars Hill College        305  308  300    913

 

 

4   Tusculum College            297  291  310    898

   7    Chase Carroll            76   70   76    222

T  9    Chris Wynne              72   73   79    224

T  9    Sasha Catron             73   76   75    224

T 29    Nick Kinzer              77   72   83    232

T 29    Dallas Bassen            76   76   80    232