Greg Nye’s Penn State men’s team opened the spring portion
of the season with a runnerup finish in the Big Ten Match Play, which concluded
Saturday at the Hammock Beach Resort’s Conservatory Course in Palm Coast Fla.
It took a 35-foot bomb on the final green by Northwestern’s Everton
Hawkins, a freshman from Irvine, Calif, to finally finish off Penn State’s Alec
Bard, a freshman from New Hartford, N.Y. and lift the Wildcats, ranked 39th
by Golfstat, to the victory.
Penn State, ranked 57th, got a 4 and 2 win from
Ryan Dornes, a sophomore who starred scholastically at Manheim Township, over
Sam Triplett, a junior from Scottsdale, Ariz. J.D. Hughes, a sophomore from
Carlisle, battled Andrew Whalen, a redshirt senior from Ephrata, Wash., to a
tie over the 7,183-yard, par-72 Conservatory Course layout.
Northwestern’s Connor Richardson, a graduate student from West Palm Beach,
Fla., rolled to a 5 and 4 victory over Christian Elliott, a senior from Canada,
and Dylan Wu, a junior from Medford, Ore. cruised to a 7and 5 victory over
Charles Huntzinger, a sophomore from Duluth, Ga.
Penn State, coming off a season in which the Nittany Lions
earned a berth in the NCAA regionals, got past Iowa in the semifinals with wins
from Huntzinger, Bard and Dornes. In the quarterfinals, Penn State knocked off
Purdue with Huntzinger, Cole Miller, a sophomore out of Northwestern Lehigh who
won the Pennsylvania Amateur at Moselem Springs Golf Club last summer, and Hughes taking
their matches.
No comments:
Post a Comment