Bowling Green State University Athletics
Falcons Finish 11th at Rain-Shortened Colonel Classic
September 29, 2002 | Men's Golf
Sept. 29, 2002
Richmond, Ky. - The Bowling Green State University men's golf team finished 11th out of 19 teams on Saturday in a rain-shortened Eastern Kentucky Colonel Classic in Richmond, Ky. The scheduled 54-hole tournament was reduced to 18 holes on Friday and 18 holes on Saturday due to heavy rains in the area.
BGSU was tied for seventh place after Friday with a score of 298 but dropped to 11th despite shooting just one stroke higher on Saturday, 299. The Falcons ended with a team score of 597, three strokes out of the top-10. EKU won the tournament with a two-round score of 566.
Redshirt-sophomore Craig Pickerel was the low scorer for the Falcons, finishing tied for 14th with a score of 145 (76-69). Sophomore Austin Chase was tied for 12th after day one (72), but dropped to a tie for 28th place on day two (76), finishing with a score of 148. Other Falcon finishers were senior Andy Miller (T-72, 153), freshman Chris Leake (T-72, 153) and freshman Bud Ziglar (T-79, 154).
BGSU ends its Fall schedule in two weeks when the team travels to Cincinnati for the Xavier Invitational (Oct. 14-15).
Final Results 1st 2nd Final 1) Eastern Kentucky 286 280 566 2) Tennessee Tech 293 292 585 3) De Paul 292 294 586 4) Radford 297 291 588 5) Cleveland State 290 300 590 6) Wright State 298 293 591 Longwood 300 291 591 8) Youngstown State 298 295 593 Dayton 300 293 593 10) Murray State 296 298 594 11) Bowling Green 298 299 597 12) Bellarmine 301 297 598 Cumberland 302 296 598 14) Tenn.-Martin 301 299 600 15) Southern Illinois 301 300 601 16) Northern Kentucky 304 301 605 Morehead State 303 302 605 18) Malone College 306 305 611 19) Cincinnati 309 303 612
