SEVIERVILLE, Tenn. --- The Tusculum University men's golf team finished 10th at the Bobby Nichols Intercollegiate held at the Sevierville Golf Club – River Course.
The three-day, 54-hole tournament field consisted of mostly NCAA Division I programs as well as some of the top programs in Division II.
Tusculum posted a 54-hole team total of 888 including Tuesday's 304 aggregate score. UT Martin and Morehead State tied for first place honors at 851 (-13). Host Tennessee Tech was third with 853, while South Atlantic Conference member Carson-Newman finished fourth with 858. Findlay was fifth with 874, followed by Eastern Kentucky and Detroit Mercy who tied for sixth with 875. Murray State was eighth with 878, followed by Evansville (887), Tusculum (888), Northern Iowa (889), Austin Peay (891), Northern Kentucky (908), Walters State (911) and Roane State (964).
Tusculum freshman Dominic Barron Holden tied for 11th place honors with a tournament total 215, which is tied for the sixth lowest 54-hole score in program history. UT Martin's Nick Wolf claimed medalist honors with 204, one stroke better than runner-up Jake Mynatt of Carson-Newman.
TU rookie Liam van Deventer tied for 34th with 222 including a final round 73 on Tuesday. Nicholas Marchese placed 42nd with 75-73-76=224, Kyle Engelbert was 55th with 70-78-79=227 and Julien Crupi rounded out the scoring with his 79-82-93=254.
The Pioneers return to action next Monday and Tuesday (March 22-23) when they host the 27th annual Tusculum Invitational at Graysburg Hills Golf Club. TU has won this event in four of the last five years and 10 times overall.
