EL DORADO, Ark. – Ben Carr posted a team-low 75, and the Georgia Southern men's golf team shot two strokes lower than Little Rock to tie the Trojans for first in the stroke play portion of the Sun Belt Championship at Mystic Creek Golf Club Tuesday.
The Eagles win stroke play by virtue of winning the tiebreaker - the cumulative of Georgia Southern's non-counting score in each round was 236, 12 strokes better than Little Rock's 248. The top-4 teams advance to match play tomorrow, and the Eagles (+25) will be the top seed and play Georgia State (+40), which finished fourth.
The Eagles and Panthers are scheduled to tee off the first hole at 9:30 a.m. ET. UTA (+36) finished third and will take on Little Rock (+25) in match play. The teams will tee off the 10th hole at 9:30 a.m. ET. The winners meet in the championship match in the afternoon.
Evan White (E) of Texas State shot a 70, the lowest round of the day by a stroke, to win medalist honors. Carr (+4) tied for third, while
Wilson Andress (+6) shot a 76 today and tied for fifth and
Mason Williams carded a 77 and tied for eighth.
Hogan Ingram was the final Eagle counter today with a 77.
The Eagles led the field in par-3 scoring (+7), par-5 scoring (E) and in total pars with 181. GS advances to Sun Belt Championship match play for the fifth straight season.
Scoring
Team – 292-292-305=889 (+25), T1
Ben Carr – 74-71-75=220 (+4), T3
Wilson Andress – 73-73-76=222 (+6), T5
Mason Williams – 73-73-77=223 (+7), T8
Hogan Ingram – 72-80-77=229 (+13), T24
Brantley Baker – 77-75-79=231 (+15), T34
