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The College of Wooster

Scots Close Season With Fifth-Place Finish at NCACs

Scots Close Season With Fifth-Place Finish at NCACs
Results

The College of Wooster golf team completed the 2007-08 season, finishing in fifth-place with a total of 953 strokes over the 54-hole North Coast Athletic Conference Championships on Saturday and Sunday. The two-day event was hosted by Denison University at the par-71, 6,559-yard Granville Golf Course.

Ohio Wesleyan University captured its second-straight NCAC postseason crown with an 887, just 35-over par, as well as the conference’s new season-long championship, which encompasses the results from three regular season events plus the NCAC Championships. The Battling Bishops’ overall score was 2669 and they received the league’s automatic berth into the NCAA Div. III Championships.

In contention for an at-large bid to nationals is Allegheny College, which was runner-up at both the postseason championship (922) and in the overall standings (2714). Wittenberg University rounded into its top form for the NCAC Championships, finishing third (938), but was fourth for the season (2812), while Denison wound up fourth in the postseason tournament (940), but third in the final team standings (2796). Wooster’s 953 strokes over the two-day event give it a season total of 2820, good for fifth-place in the final standings, as the other four teams were well back.

Leading the Scots were seniors Pat Lynch and Erik Shoger, as Lynch tied for 11th and Shoger for 15th overall at the postseason championship. Lynch shot an opening 82, but followed it up with two rounds in the 70s including a final-round 73, while Shoger carded a first-round 81 followed by rounds of 80 and 76. Lynch, along with Jim Ipema, who tied for 27th (80-81-88) earned all-NCAC second-team honors. Lynch took a spot on the second-team after tallying a 687 at the four required NCAC events in 2007-08, while Ipema carded a season-long NCAC score of 713.

Also for Wooster, senior Jason Greenwald scored during all three rounds of the NCAC Championships, as he tied for 21st (77-83-81), while sophomore Tim Sullivan was a few strokes from scoring for the Scots in each of the first two rounds (84-86), but fired a final-round 81 and ended up 30th overall.