Tuesday, April 15, 2008

 

TUSCULUM MEN’S GOLF FINISHES FIFTH AT SAC CHAMPIONSHIP

 

                HICKORY, N.C. ---   The Tusculum men’s golf team finished fifth with a three-round score of 917 at the 2008 Food Lion South Atlantic Conference Championship, held this week at the Lake Hickory Country Club at Catawba Springs.

 

                Newberry shot an 866 (+22) to win the program’s first-ever league title and earning the SAC’s automatic bid to the NCAA Division II Southeast Regional next month.


                Carson-Newman College finished with a 902 (+38) to place second while tournament host Lenoir-Rhyne College finished third with a 909 (+45) on the par-72, 6,570-yard course.  Provisional member Brevard College finished fourth, followed by Tusculum, Catawba College (917), Wingate University (929), Mars Hill College (930) and Lincoln Memorial University (938).

                Individually, Newberry's Ben Lown took home medalist honors after carding a 208 (-8) and was the lone person under par for the tournament.

                Joining Lown on the SAC All-Tournament Team were Lenoir-Rhyne's Jakin Fox (216, E), Newberry's Daniel Stanley (220, +4), Mars Hill's Chad Skinner (224, +8), Carson-Newman's Brad Robinson, Tyler Lane and Blake Howard, Wingate's Corey Iacofano and Lenoir-Rhyne's Chris Gilbert, who all shot a 225 (+9) to finish in a five-way tie for fifth place.

 

                Tusculum’s Chase Carroll, the two-time SAC Scholar Athlete for Men’s Golf, finished tied for 11th with 77-72-77=226, along with rookie teammate Lawson George (73-71-82=226).  Chris Wynne, the 2008 SAC Player of the Year finished tied for 14th with 79-73-75=227.  Matt McIntyre finished with 241 for 36th place, while Jake Scheffers tied for 37th at 242.

 

                Tusculum will wait to learn if it earned an automatic bid for next month’s NCAA II Tournament.

 

- SAC -

FINAL RESULTS           Food Lion SAC Championship   

                         Lake Hickory/Catawba SprgHickory, NC   

                         Dates: 04/14 - 04/15     (Today:04-15-2008)

                                   Par:        72               

                                   Yardage:  6570               

 

      Fin.   School                   Scores 

         1   Newberry College         301  288  297    886       +22

         2   Carson-Newman Coll.      296  296  310    902       +38

         3   Lenoir-Rhyne College     294  307  308    909       +45

         4   Brevard College          307  296  309    912       +48

         5   Tusculum College         312  294  311    917       +53

         6   Catawba College          308  305  307    920       +56

         7   Wingate University       309  310  310    929       +65

         8   Mars Hill College        305  305  320    930       +66

         9   Lincoln Memorial U.      315  311  312    938       +74

 

  Fin.   Name                   School       Scores 

      1   Ben Lown               Newberry      70   68   70    208   -8

      2   Jakin Fox              Len.-Rhyne    68   72   76    216    E

      3   Daniel Stanley         Newberry      73   71   76    220   +4

      4   Chad Skinner           Mars Hill     73   74   77    224   +8

      5   Grant Carnie           Brevard Co    77   74   74    225   +9

          Brad Robinson          Carson-New    75   76   74    225   +9

          Corey Iacofano         Wingate U.    77   70   78    225   +9

          Tyler Lane             Carson-New    70   73   82    225   +9

          Blake Howard           Carson-New    75   73   77    225   +9

          Chris Gilbert          Len.-Rhyne    71   77   77    225   +9

     11   Chase Carroll          Tusculum      77   72   77    226  +10

          Sam Holtsclaw          Len.-Rhyne    76   76   74    226  +10

          Lawson George          Tusculum      73   71   82    226  +10

     14   Chris Wynne            Tusculum      79   73   75    227  +11

          David Martinez         Brevard Co    73   73   81    227  +11

     16   Thomas Bush            Brevard Co    78   74   76    228  +12

          Corey Talley           LMU           77   72   79    228  +12

          Nate Lockey            Mars Hill     76   72   80    228  +12

     19   Chet DeLong            Wingate U.    75   82   72    229  +13

     20   John Allen Meetze      Newberry      79   76   75    230  +14

     21   Eric Schmehl           Catawba       77   80   74    231  +15

     22   Josh Spalding          Mars Hill     78   76   78    232  +16

          Brad Greenside         LMU           83   75   74    232  +16

          Brandon Burnside       Newberry      80   73   79    232  +16

          Cory Hinchey           Carson-New    76   76   80    232  +16

     26   Myles Johnston         Brevard Co    80   75   78    233  +17

     27   John Minor, Jr.        Carson-New    81   74   79    234  +18

     28   Derek Paschal          Catawba       86   73   76    235  +19

          Todd Janssen           Catawba       76   78   81    235  +19

     30   Elliot Blake           Catawba       75   74   87    236  +20

     31   Allen Tuttle           Catawba       80   82   76    238  +22

          Seth Girouard          Wingate U.    80   77   81    238  +22

          Steve Cambron          LMU           77   81   80    238  +22

     34   Kevin Robertson        Wingate U.    77   83   79    239  +23

     35   Craig Galloway         Brevard Co    79   79   82    240  +24

     36   Matt McIntyre          Tusculum      84   78   79    241  +25

     37   Stephen Holmes         Newberry      79   87   76    242  +26

          Jake Scheffers         Tusculum      83   79   80    242  +26

     39   Cory Bartlett          LMU           82   83   79    244  +28

     40   Ty Dannenbring         Len.-Rhyne    79   82   84    245  +29

     41   Josh Sparks            Mars Hill     78   83   85    246  +30

     42   Scott Caragher         Wingate U.    82   81   86    249  +33

     43   Eric Lipson            Len.-Rhyne    87   83   81    251  +35

     44   Josh Collins           LMU           79   90   87    256  +40

     45   Lucas Kruk             Mars Hill     89   84   90    263  +47

 

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