Team Results | Individual Results | Combined Results
CHUCKEY, Tenn. --- The Tusculum Pioneers held off a late charging West Georgia club as the Black and Orange led wire-to-wire to win the 28th annual Tusculum Invitational. The two-day, 36-hole tournament was being held at Graysburg Hills Golf Course.
The Pioneers win their home spring tournament for a third consecutive year and 12th time overall. Tusculum posted a final round 283, led by Thomas Kolberg's career-low round of 68 (-4). TU won the team title with a 36-hole total 568, winning by four shots over runner-up West Georgia. The Wolves also carded a 283 on Tuesday to finish with a two-round score of 572.
Milligan A claimed third place honors with 580, followed by Newberry in fourth with 583. The Tusculum B team finished tied for fifth place with 586 including a final day 287. Anderson also tied for fifth with 586, followed by Ohio Dominican (587), Walters State (597), Christian Brothers (600), Shorter (603), Catawba (608), Spartanburg Methodist (609), UVA Wise (629), Emory & Henry (634), Roane State (636), Milligan (641) and Mars Hill (652).
West Georgia's Austin Fulton captured medalist honors as he followed Monday's 69 with a 68 to post a seven-under par total 137. Fulton finished two shots in front of defending medalist Liam van Deventer as he shot 68-71=139 (-5). Newberry's Alex Pillar was third with 68-73=141, while the quartet of Dominic Barron Holden (Tusculum), Oliwer Toiminen (West Georgia), Robert Holden (Ohio Dominican) and Nate Vaughan (Walters State) all finished with 142 to tie for fourth place.
Kollberg tied for 11th place with 76-68=144, followed by Isak Holter with 71-74=145 (T13) and Nicholas Marchese finished 31st with 74-76=150.
The Tusculum B team was led by Blake Williams' effort of 71-72=143, good enough to tie for eighth place. Liam Hermansson was 13th with 76-69=145, followed by Riley Brown (77-72=149, T26), Fynn Hessenkaemper (78-74=152, T45), and Mark Healy (75-80=155, T57).
Playing as individual competitors, Tusculum's Jordan Williams posted 83-78=161 to finish in 75th place. Liam Colohan shot 83-79=162 to tie for 77th. Daxx Carr is 84th with 82-84=166 to round out the TU scoring.
Tusculum claims its second varsity team title of the season, winning the Matt Dyas Invitational, West Georgia's home tournament, in the fall.
The Pioneers will close out the regular season next week (Mar. 28-29) at the Tennessee River Rumble in Lenoir City. It will be the final tune-up before hosting next month's South Atlantic Conference Championship (Apr. 10-12) at Graysburg Hills.
