Marshall University Athletics
Brand Makes Fine Showing at NCAA Regional
5/21/2011 12:00:00 AM | Men's Golf
May 21, 2011
Radford, Va. - Marshall University senior Christian Brand finished tied for 28th overall at the NCAA East Regional with an eight-over par 224 after firing a 74 in Saturday's final round at the Pete Dye River Course of Virginia Tech.
Brand's performance ranked second out of the 10 individual qualifiers in the region. Dartmouth junior Peter Williamson completed a strong showing by shooting even par in the third round to finish at three-over par in a tie for 10th among the 75 participants. His three-day total of 219 was the best by any of the 10 individual qualifiers, but it was not low enough to advance to the NCAA Championships in Stillwater, Okla.
In order to advance as an individual, a player must post the lowest score outside of the members of the top five teams. Coastal Carolina finished in seventh place, and the Chanticleers' Sebastian Soderberg tied the course record on Saturday with a five-under 67 to finish in a tie for second overall with a four-under 212.
Abraham Ancer of Oklahoma took medalist honors by shooting six-under par on the par-72, 7,685-yard course, including a three-under 69 in the final round. Soderberg, tied for second with Georgia Tech teammates Kyle Scott and James White, while Duke's Julian Sari helped lead the Blue Devils to the team title by finishing in fifth place at two-under. Tim Gornik garnered a great deal of attention Saturday by breaking the course record with a six-under 66 to get back to even par in a tie for eighth.
Duke finished the regional at one-over par, four strokes ahead of Georgia Tech. Oklahoma came in third 10 strokes off the pace, while LSU was fourth at 16-over and Kent State fifth at 29-over. Those five schools and Soderberg will compete at the NCAA Championships on May 31-June 5.
