April 15, 2008

Hickory, N.C. - The Carson-Newman College Men's Golf Team finished second in the 2008 Food Lion South Atlantic Conference Men's Golf Tournament Tuesday at the Lake Hickory Country Club at Catawba Springs.

The Eagles finished sixteen strokes behind Newberry College, who shot a 866 (+22). Carson-Newman College finished with a 902 (+38). The host school, Lenoir-Rhyne, finished third with a 909 (+45) on the par-72, 6,570-yard course.

Individually, Newberry's Ben Lown took home top honors after carding a conference-tournament record 208 (-8) and was the lone person under par for the tournament.

Joining Lown on the all-tournament team were Lenoir-Rhyne's Jakin Fox (216, E), Newberry's Daniel Stanley (220, +4), Mars Hill's Chad Skinner (224, +8) and Carson-Newman's Brad Robinson, Tyler Lane and Blake Howard, Wingate's Corey Iacofano and Lenoir-Rhyne's Chris Gilbert, who all shot a 225 (+9) to finish in a five-way tie for fifth place.

With the victory, Newberry earns the league's automatic qualifier to the NCAA Division II Atlantic/Southeast Super Regional at The Point Lake Golf Club in Belmont, N.C., from May 5-7. Carson-Newman will now await word of a possible at-large bid.

Food Lion SAC Championship
Lake Hickory/Catawba Sprg, Hickory, NC
Dates: 04/14 - 04/15 (Today:04-15-2008)
Par: 72
Yardage: 6570

Fin. Top 20 Teams Scores
1 Newberry College 301 288 297 886
2 Carson-Newman Coll. 296 296 310 902
3 Lenoir-Rhyne College 294 307 308 909
4 Brevard College 307 296 309 912
5 Tusculum College 312 294 311 917
6 Catawba College 308 305 307 920
7 Wingate University 309 310 310 929
8 Mars Hill College 305 305 320 930
9 Lincoln Memorial U. 315 311 312 938


Fin. Name School Scores
1 Ben Lown Newberry 70 68 70 208 -8
2 Jakin Fox Len.-Rhyne 68 72 76 216 E
3 Daniel Stanley Newberry 73 71 76 220 +4
4 Chad Skinner Mars Hill 73 74 77 224 +8
5 Grant Carnie Brevard Co 77 74 74 225 +9
Brad Robinson Carson-New 75 76 74 225 +9
Corey Iacofano Wingate U. 77 70 78 225 +9
Tyler Lane Carson-New 70 73 82 225 +9
Blake Howard Carson-New 75 73 77 225 +9
Chris Gilbert Len.-Rhyne 71 77 77 225 +9
11 Chase Carroll Tusculum 77 72 77 226 +10
Sam Holtsclaw Len.-Rhyne 76 76 74 226 +10
Lawson George Tusculum 73 71 82 226 +10
14 Chris Wynne Tusculum 79 73 75 227 +11
David Martinez Brevard Co 73 73 81 227 +11
16 Thomas Bush Brevard Co 78 74 76 228 +12
Corey Talley LMU 77 72 79 228 +12
Nate Lockey Mars Hill 76 72 80 228 +12
19 Chet DeLong Wingate U. 75 82 72 229 +13
20 John Allen Meetze Newberry 79 76 75 230 +14
21 Eric Schmehl Catawba 77 80 74 231 +15
22 Josh Spalding Mars Hill 78 76 78 232 +16
Brad Greenside LMU 83 75 74 232 +16
Brandon Burnside Newberry 80 73 79 232 +16
Cory Hinchey Carson-New 76 76 80 232 +16
26 Myles Johnston Brevard Co 80 75 78 233 +17
27 John Minor, Jr. Carson-New 81 74 79 234 +18
28 Derek Paschal Catawba 86 73 76 235 +19
Todd Janssen Catawba 76 78 81 235 +19
30 Elliot Blake Catawba 75 74 87 236 +20
31 Allen Tuttle Catawba 80 82 76 238 +22
Seth Girouard Wingate U. 80 77 81 238 +22
Steve Cambron LMU 77 81 80 238 +22
34 Kevin Robertson Wingate U. 77 83 79 239 +23
35 Craig Galloway Brevard Co 79 79 82 240 +24
36 Matt McIntyre Tusculum 84 78 79 241 +25
37 Stephen Holmes Newberry 79 87 76 242 +26
Jake Scheffers Tusculum 83 79 80 242 +26
39 Cory Bartlett LMU 82 83 79 244 +28
40 Ty Dannenbring Len.-Rhyne 79 82 84 245 +29
41 Josh Sparks Mars Hill 78 83 85 246 +30
42 Scott Caragher Wingate U. 82 81 86 249 +33
43 Eric Lipson Len.-Rhyne 87 83 81 251 +35
44 Josh Collins LMU 79 90 87 256 +40
45 Lucas Kruk Mars Hill 89 84 90 263 +47