Eagles Finish Third at SAC Championship
April 21, 2009
SAC Tournament Final Results
SAC Tournament Team Results & Top 20
ETOWAH, N.C. --- The Carson-Newman Eagles slipped off of their opening 36-hole pace to finish third in the 2009 Food Lion South Atlantic Conference Men's Golf Championship, which wrapped up Tuesday in Etowah, N.C.
The Eagles finished the final day with a 311, after posting 293 in back-to-back rounds to open the tournament.
C-N `s three-day score of 897 was 14 strokes behind tournament-champion Newberry College, who carded a final round 294 to finish with a 54-hole total of 883. It is Newberry's second straight SAC title as the Scarlet & Gray placed three players on the All-Tournament Team.
Eagle junior Brad Robinson (Johnson City, Tenn.) grabbed first team All-Tournament honors after finishing fourth overall with a three-day 220 (+4).
Freshman Liam Ashby (Dublin, Ireland) missed a top-10 finish in his first SAC Tournament by two strokes. He closed tied for 11th at 224 (+8).
Junior Cory Hinchey (Abingdon, Va.) slipped to a 77 in his final round, after posting a pair of 74s on Monday. He finished 16th overall.
Tusculum's Chase Carroll, the 2009 SAC Player of the Year, led wire-to-wire shooting a three-round total 217 to capture SAC Tournament medalist honors for the second time in his career. Carroll posted a final round 77 and birdied his final hole to edge Cory Bartlett of Lincoln Memorial University, who finished runner-up with 218, including a final round 72.
Newberry finished 12 shots in front of second place Wingate University (895). Carson-Newman College placed third with 897, followed by Tusculum (899), Brevard College (902), Lincoln Memorial (905), Lenoir-Rhyne University (914), Mars Hill College (920) and Catawba College (935).
Joining Carroll and Bartlett on the SAC All-Tournament First Team are Josh Spalding (Mars Hill), Brad Robinson (Carson-Newman) and Eric Kennedy (Lincoln Memorial). David Crawford (Wingate), Ben Lown (Newberry) and Brandon Burnside (Newberry) earned spots on the All-Tournament Second Team, along with Daniel Stanley (Newberry) and Kent George (Lenoir-Rhyne).
The SAC Championship was held at the Par 72, 6,796-yard Etowah Valley Country Club and Golf Resort.
2009 Food Lion SAC All-Tournament Men's Golf Team
First Team
Chase Carroll, Tusculum (Medalist)
Cory Bartlett, Lincoln Memorial
Josh Spalding, Mars Hill
Brad Robinson, Carson-Newman
Eric Kennedy, Lincoln Memorial
Second Team
David Crawford, Wingate
Ben Lown, Newberry
Brandon Burnside, Newberry
Daniel Stanley, Newberry
Kent George, Lenoir-Rhyne
