Tusculum finishes eighth at SAC Championship, Engelbert earns All-Tournament honors

Tusculum finishes eighth at SAC Championship, Engelbert earns All-Tournament honors

CAMDEN, S.C. --- The Tusculum University men's golf team finished eighth at the 2019 South Atlantic Conference Championship on Tuesday.  The three-day, 54-hole tournament was held at the par-70 Camden Country Club.

The Pioneers posted a final round 307 to finish with a three-day score of 914 as TU improves upon its 11th place showing from a season ago.

Queens University of Charlotte rallied to win the SAC Championship as the Royals finished with 864 to win by one shot over Newberry College (865).  Queens was consistent throughout posting 288 in all three rounds, while Newberry shot 292 on Tuesday.  Host Coker College finished third with 875, followed by Lincoln Memorial University (890), Carson-Newman University (891), Wingate University (893), Lenoir-Rhyne University (897), Tusculum, Catawba College (918), Anderson University (926) and Mars Hill University (944).

Newberry's Harry Bolton led wire-to-wire to claim the SAC Tournament medal as he finished with 66-73-210 to win by two strokes over teammate Adrian Villiger with 68-72-72=212.

Tusculum freshman Kyle Engelbert finished seventh with a 54-hole total 216 and earned a spot on the SAC All-Tournament second team.  He opened with bogeys on three of his first four holes, but finished the rest of his round with four birdies including two of his last three holes to finish with 72.  His 216 is tied for the eighth lowest 54-hole score in TU history.

The TU trio of Noah Jones, Liam Sweeney and Matt DiBella all finished with 235 to tie for 40th place.  Jeffery Perez carded a three-day score of 237 to tie for 45th place.

 

2019 SAC Championship

Pl

Team

1st

2nd

3rd

TOT

1

Queens

288

288

288

864

2

Newberry

278

295

292

865

3

Coker

284

302

289

875

4

Lincoln Memorial

291

306

293

890

5

Carson-Newman

297

301

293

891

6

Wingate

296

303

294

893

7

Lenoir-Rhyne

298

295

304

897

8

TUSCULUM

293

314

307

914

9

Catawba

294

309

315

918

10

Anderson

308

306

312

926

11

Mars Hill

309

315

320

944

 

Tusculum Individual Scores

Pl

Player

1st

2nd

3rd

TOT

7

Kyle Engelbert

69

75

72

216

T40

Noah Jones

72

79

84

235

T40

Liam Sweeney

76

81

78

235

T40

Matt DiBella

76

79

80

235

T45

Jeffery Perez

76

84

77

237