Marshall University Athletics
Men's Golf Finishes 12th at Wexford Intercollegiate
2/25/2009 12:00:00 AM | Men's Golf
Feb. 25, 2009
Hilton Head Island, S.C. -
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USC Aiken, the top-ranked team in NCAA Division II, fired a final-round 306 team score to complete a wire-to-wire win at the fourth-annual Wexford Plantation Intercollegiate Men's Golf Tournament, held on Hilton Head Island, S.C. USCA's Roberto Diaz fired a 2-under-par 70, Tuesday's low round of the day, to capture medalist honors with a 54-hole tally of 214.
USCA finished with a team score of 897, eight strokes ahead of the University of Richmond (905). The Spiders, along with Presbyterian College, carded the low team score of Tuesday at 301 to jump ahead of host Francis Marion University. FMU fired a 314 score on Tuesday and fell back to third place with a 54-hole total of 907. USC Upstate (912) finished fourth, while Presbyterian was fifth at 919. Marshall finished 12th in the tournament with a score of 957, after recording rounds of 332, 307 and 318.
The 16-team tournament was played on the par 72, 6,828-yard Wexford Plantation course.
Diaz entered the final round tied with teammate J.P. Solis at the top of the individual standings, but ended the day four strokes ahead of USC Upstate's Josh Gallman (71-76-71=218). Rounding out the top five finishers were Michael Shrader of Richmond (73-76-71=220), Solis (69-75-77=221), and Robert Lindstrom of Richmond (73-74-75=222).
Marshall was led by Christian Brand and Carson Schambach who recorded three-round totals of 237 to finish tied for 39th in the field.
Only eight sub-par rounds were recorded during the 54 holes by the 81 golfers.
Marshall University Scores
T 39 Christian Brand (81-71-85=237)
T 39 Carson Schambach (89-73-75=237)
T 54 Ryan Brookshire (83-83-77=243)
T 61 Bosten Miller (85-80-81=246)
80 Phil DiLorenzo (83-91-86=260)
