Smokey Mountain Intercollegiate Sights and Sounds
SEVIERVILLE, Tenn – The Carson-Newman men's golf team really likes playing at the Sevierville Golf Club.
For the second consecutive tournament at the Eagles home course, Carson-Newman placed in the top-two, taking second at the Smokey Mountain Intercollegiate. Junior Andrew Hall (Knoxville, Tenn.) finished the tournament tied for second, finishing one shot over par.
"We really made a run at that them. Through about 14, I think we had caught up, maybe one shot behind, which was really exciting and encouraging and felt really good about it and we just made a couple of doubles and a triple, like all at the same time, so we went from right in it with a chance to win it to struggling a little bit at the end and we kind of didn't finish as strong as we would like," coach Randy Wylie said after the round.
It was a solid finish to start the year, but its our home course, our home tournament and we wanted to win the thing and we are disappointed we didn't win it."
The Eagles entered the day six shots behind Limestone College, but they dropped eight shots to the Saints to settle for second.
For Hall, the junior began the day in sixth and made a surge to jump to second in the standings. Sophomore Dalton Reese (Warrington, Ga.) finished the tournament tied for sixth at four-over. He moved up a spot from the beginning of the round.
Juniors Nicklaus Kennedy (London, Ontario, Canada) and Nathan Hodge (Jefferson City, Tenn.) both finished at 12-over, tied for 12th.
"I came in second, the team came in second. We didn't play as good as our last round yesterday, but still got a lot to build on for the tournament at Kiawah, so hopefully we can take some things we did well from here and translate that to Kiawah's tournament," Hall said.
Limestone's Griffin Brown won the individual competition, finishing the tournament at one-under.
The Eagles' next tournament will be September 15th and 16th at the Kiawah Island Invitational in Kiawah Island, S.C.
Full Results
2 Carson-Newman 302 288 303 893
T2 Andrew Hall 75 69 73 217
T6 Dalton Reese 77 70 73 220
T12 Nathan Hodge 76 72 80 228
T12 Nicklaus Kennedy 74 77 77 228
37 Rafa Carrillo 85 78 81 244
T24 Ben Kennard 78 78 77 233
36 Corey Bray 82 78 83 243
39 Jack Gillespie 83 81 84 248
40 Stephen Hill 81 86 86 253
41 Sam Davis 82 84 88 254
42 Justin Vittitoe 82 0 0 82
