INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. (GreenBayPhoenix.com)
- The Green Bay men's golf team shot
a final round 295 Tuesday to finish fourth at the Butler Invitational at Eagle
Creek Golf Course. After opening with a 302 Monday morning to rank eighth, the
Phoenix rallied back with two sub-300 rounds to finish in fourth.
Evansville
claimed first place at the event with a score of 842 while IUPUI (861) and
Butler (870) finished just in front of Green Bay in second and third respectively.
Green
Bay's best round of the event was Monday afternoon, when senior Chris Pural (Green Bay, Wis.) fired a
one-under par 70 to lead the Phoenix to a second-round 289. Pural finished 15th overall with a 54-hole total of 6-over 219.
The
team's top golfer for the tournament was unable to count towards Green Bay's
team total. Playing as an individual, sophomore Chad Ebert (Kenosha, Wis.) had rounds of 71, 69 and 70 to finish in
third place at 3-under 210. Ebert was second in the field with 13 birdies and
posted a score of 5-under on the par-5s.
Also
playing as an individual, sophomore Lee
Swan (Portage, Wis.) led the field in pars with 42 and finished in a tie
for 25th (224, +11).
The
rest of Green Bay's five scoring players included freshman Dan Ozga (Edgerton, Wis.), who finished tied for 20th (221, +8)
after an even-par 71 Tuesday. Freshman Sam
Weber (Heartland, Wis.) finished in a tie for 29th (225, +12), sophomore Cam Fuller (Sturgeon Bay, Wis.) tied
for 35th (226, +123) and senior Austin
Ehlenfeldt (Green Bay, Wis.) finished tied for 45th (229, +16) to round out
the Phoenix scorers.
Green
Bay will take three weeks off before concluding its fall season on Oct. 25-26
at the SIU-Edwardsville Invitational.
Team Scores
1. Evansville, 283-275-284=842
2. IUPUI, 288-287-286=861
3. Butler, 285-290-295=870
4. Green Bay, 302-289-295=886
5. Cornerstone, 290-301-296=887
6. Valparaiso, 288-302-299=889
7. Indiana Wesleyan, 301-293-299=893
8. Eastern Illinois, 299-296-300=895
9. IUPUI-B, 303-304-302=909
10. DePauw, 305-313-309=927
11. Chicago State, 321-321-326=968
Green Bay
3. Chad Ebert, 71-69-70=210 (-3)*
15. Chris Pural, 75-70-74=219 (+6)
T20. Dan Ozga, 76-74-71=221 (+8)
T25. Lee Swan, 78-76-70=224 (+11)*
T29. Sam Weber, 80-72-73=225 (+12)
T35. Cam Fuller, 72-74-80=226 (+13)
T45. Austin Ehlenfeldt, 79-73-77=229
(+16)
*=played as an individual
