Aloha Hawai’i: Men’s Golf to Compete at the Ka’anapali Collegiate Classic on Nov. 6-8

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Aloha Hawai’i: Men’s Golf to Compete at the Ka’anapali Collegiate Classic on Nov. 6-8

November 05, 2015 | Men's Golf

By: by Kevin Davis, BGSU Assistant Director for Athletic Communications

Live Scoring at www.Golfstat.com

Bowling Green, Ohio – For the second straight year, the Bowling Green State University men's golf team will conclude its fall season in Hawai'i at the Ka'anapali Collegiate Classic hosted by the University of Hawai'i at the Ka'anapali Golf Club. This year's event will take place on Nov. 6-8 on the Royal Ka'anapali Course in Lahaina, Maui, Hawai'i.

The 2015 tournament will include 18 participating teams playing 54-holes over three days of play with each day consisting of 18 holes and beginning with an 8:30 a.m. HT shotgun start. The 18 teams that will be teeing-off at the par 71, 6,700-yards Royal Ka'anapali Course this weekend are Ball State, Bowling Green, CSU-Northridge, Georgia, Gonzaga, Indiana, Kansas, Liberty, Long Beach State, Loyola Marymount, N.C. State, Northern Iowa, Oklahoma, Sacramento State, South Carolina, UC Santa Barbara, Washington State and the host Hawai'i.

"This is not only a great tournament, but an exciting trip for our guys to experience," commented head coach Kevin Farrell. "It is a great way to cap off the fall season each year and then get us mentally ready for the upcoming spring season. We finished sixth last year behind teams from the PAC-12, SEC, Big 12 and ACC, so we are looking forward to competing with those Power 5 conference teams again this year."

BGSU will send out a familiar lineup from this fall season in Jose Narro, Pablo Heredia Iglesias, Brett Rinker, Cameron Michalak and Mitchell Kontak.

Narro, who has played at No. 1 all fall for the Falcons, is second on the team with a scoring average of 72.14 over 14 rounds of play. He opened the season up with a third-place finish and record setting 54-hole score of 202, -11 under par, at the Joe Feaganes Marshall Invitational, and then posted a sixth-place finish at the William H. Tucker Intercollegiate and a 14th-place showing at the Cleveland State Invitational. The Tampico, Mexico native shot a 214, +1, with rounds of 66, 77 and 71 last year in Hawai'i to finish the three-day event in a tie for 17th-place overall.

Coming off his best finish as a Falcon with a fourth-place showing and a 54-hole score of 210, -3 under par, last time out at the ODU/OBX Intercollegiate, Iglesias will be teeing-off in his fifth event this fall for the Falcons. The freshman has two top-five finishes over his last three events and has recorded a stroke average of 72.86 over his 14 rounds of play thus far this season.

With four straight top-16 place finishes, Rinker has been the most consistent golfer for the Falcons this season. The junior leads the team with a stroke average of 71.57 over 14 total rounds this season and has tallied an 18-hole round of 72 or lower 10 times this season. Rinker turned in a top-10 finish at last year's Ka'anapali Collegiate Classic with rounds of 71, 71 and 68 to end in a tie for eighth-place overall with his three-round combined score of 210, -3 under par.

Michalak is coming off his best intercollegiate finish at BGSU as well with a score of 213, even par, and an eighth-place showing at the ODU/OBX Intercollegiate on Oct. 25-27. The sophomore has carded season low rounds of 65, 68 and 71 thus far this season and will look to wrap up his fall slate with a strong showing in Hawai'i this weekend. At last year's tournament, Michalak placed in 67th overall with rounds of 71, 88 and 76 for a combined 54-hole score of 235, +22.

Jumping back into the lineup is Kontak after he finished as the top-Falcon and in a tie for second-place overall at the one-day Rocket Individual Classic on Oct. 25 with a 36-hole score of 152, +8. The second year Falcon has carded season low rounds of 68, 70, 71 and 72 thus far this fall season. Like Iglesias, Kontak will be teeing-off for the first time at the Ka'anapali Collegiate Classic this week.

Last year at this very event, the Falcons carded rounds of 282, 300 and 287 to finish in sixth-place overall with a 54-hole score of 869, +17. BGSU finished behind Oregon, North Florida, Georgia, Kansas and Clemson at the three-day event.

Live scoring will be available each day at www.Golfstat.com (Click here).

(Please note, Hawai'i Standard Time (HT) is five hours behind Eastern Standard Time (ET))

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