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 Senior Ricky Stout carded the low round on Tuesday, helping WCU hold on to second place at the Spring Hill Suites Intercollegiate. |
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Sept. 15, 2009
Spring Hill Suites Intercollegiate - Final Results 
Florence, S.C. - Western Carolina carded a three-under, 285, as a team on Tuesday to hold on to the runner-up position with a 54-hole score of 849, but could not fend off hard-charging fellow Southern Conference foe, Georgia Southern, at the Spring Hill Suites Intercollegiate at the par 72, 7,062-yard Country Club of South Carolina.
The Eagles posted a final round of 282 to rally from third-to-first over the final 18 holes to edge the Catamounts by two strokes, 847-to-849. Day one leader, South Carolina-Aiken slipped to third with a three-round score of 852, with Furman (861) finishing fourth ahead of a four-way tie for fifth between Charleston Southern, Elon, Georgia College & State University and James Madison.
WCU's 849 represented the third-best, three-round score in school history and was the program's lowest 54-hole team score since 2007. The Catamounts posted a tourney-best, 58 birdies for the event.
Elon's Jayson Judy and Casey Johnson of Appalachian State each carded a nine-under, 207, to share the individual medalist honors. Judy bookended two rounds of 70 around a second-round 67 on Monday, while Johnson shot 69, 67 and 71 to finish atop the leader board.
Senior Tanner Briele, who led the field 83-golfer field after the opening round after shooting his WCU career-low round of 66 on the first 18 holes, paced the Catamounts with a third-place finish, tied with GSU's Spencer Fulford who carded a tournament and course-record 63 in the second round Monday. Briele's 208 over the three-round, two-day event stands tied for the fourth-lowest individual three-round tournament score in school history.
Sophomore Kyle Wilson wound up tied for sixth after entering the final round tied for fourth in the standings. The Mount Airy, N.C., native shot his career-low round of 68 on the opening 18 before finishing with rounds of 70 and 73 to finish five-under, 211.
A trio of seniors rounded out Western Carolina's finishers at the season opener. Ricky Stout closed the tournament with his best round, shooting 69 to finish at 215, tied for 17th, while classmate Drew Miller was tied for 30th, two strokes in arrears at 217 which featured his career-best round of 67 on Monday's second round. Rylan Lanham finished tied for 63rd after carding rounds of 75, 73 and 76.
Playing as an individual, senior Benjy Davey finished tied for 51st, at 222, which also included his career-low 18 of 71 in Monday's opening round.
Western Carolina returns to action on Sept. 25-28 at the Mason Rudolph Invitational, hosted by Vanderbilt University at the Legends Club in Nashville, Tenn. WCU finished 13th at the event a year ago, shooing 880 behind the 23rd-place finish by Stout.
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