Tyler Austin paced the Cavaliers with a 24th-place finish.
Concordia Places Ninth at CSU-San Marcos Invitational
SAN MARCOS, Calif.—After firing a combined 312 in Monday’s opening round, the Concordia University men’s golf team picked up two strokes and two places to finish ninth overall at the CSU-San Marcos Invitational.
The event was the first of the spring season for the Cavaliers. Concordia will return to the links on Feb. 24 for the two-day Northwest Collegiate Shootout.
With a 310 in the second round, Concordia jumped ahead of UC San Diego (308-319—627) and Pomona-Pitzer College (308-323—631) in the team race while California Baptist used a 297 in the second round to move from a tie for 12th place to a tie for sixth. Fresno Pacific (294-292—586) returned with the best round of the tournament by carding a 292 for a two-day total of 586 strokes to outpace Point Loma Nazarene (300-293—593) by seven strokes for the team title. First-day leader Grant Doverspike (70-69—139), competing for Fresno State, matched LaVerne’s Andrew Kramer (72-69—141) with 69 strokes on day two to take medalist honors by two strokes.
Tyler Austin led the Cavaliers with a 24th-place finish, moving up five positions with a 75 in the second round for a 152. Also moving up the leaderboard, Craig Dehning used a 76 to finish in a tie for 40th, 17 slots higher than his starting point entering the final round.
Team Results: 1. Fresno State (294-292—586); 2. Point Loma Nazarene (300-293—593); 3. Redlands (304-293—597); 4. La Verne (303-300—603); 5. CSU-San Bernardino (310-301—611); T6. California Baptist (315-297—612); T6.CSU-East Bay (297-315—612); 8. CSU-San Marcos (300-317—617); 9. Concordia-Portland (312-310—622); 10. Holy Names Univ. (323-303—626); 11. UC San Diego (308-319—627); T12. Pomona-Pitzer Coll. (308-323—631); T12. Concordia-California (320-311—631); 14. California Lutheran (311-322—633); 15. Claremont-Mudd-Scripps (318-316—634); 16. The Master's College (315-325—640); 17. CSU-Dominguez Hills (321-321—642); 18. Dominican-California (328-320—648); 19. Biola University (333-340—673).
Concordia Results: T24. Tyler Austin (77-75—152); T40. Craig Dehning (79-76—155); T53. Brad Bachman (76-81—157); T73. Marc Arima (82-78—160); T90. Dan Scobie (80-87—167).