ALAMEDA, CALIF. - On Tuesday, March 12th, the Sonoma State men's golf team continued their momentum after a 4th place finish last week at the Nighthawks Invitational and placed 5th at the annual Tim Tierney Pioneer Shootout. The Seawolves put together one of their best single round performances of the season with an opening 280 (-8) Monday morning. Four of the team's starting five finished the first round under par to launch them into 2nd place. They would drop 7 strokes in the afternoon round on Monday but remain alone in 2nd place at 9-under-par.
Cole Kroeker continues to put together a solid freshman campaign as he went on to record the low round of the tournament for SSU with a first round 68 (-4). On Tuesday, senior
Lucas Happy would be the lone golfer to record a final round under par with a 70 (-2). As a result Sonoma State would drop to 5th place but hold steady there to earn their second consecutive top-5 finish. Happy went on to finish 5-under-par in his three rounds of action good for t-10th place individually. He recorded just one bogey and a trio of birdies to finish 2-under-par on Tuesday.
Despite finishing 8-over-par in their final round, the Seawolves put together one of their better scoring performances all season as they stood at 9-under after the first two rounds. Kroeker finished t-26th at 1-over-par but recorded the team's low round of the week at 4-under on Monday.
Ryan Stewart recorded his low round of the tournament with a 71 (-1) Monday as well and
Colin Huang was 2-under-par with five birdies in his second round for his low score of the tournament.
Ivan Sablan made his first appearance in the team's starting five since the Fujikura Invitational back in February. He recorded a first round 70 (-2) and finished the week 8-over-par in a tie for 52nd place.
Full tournament results can be found
HERE and all SSU finishers can be found below:
LOOKING AHEAD
The Seawolves will take a week off to prepare for the Hanny Stanislaus State Invitational on Monday, March 25th at the Turlock Golf & Country Club. Live scoring and round-by-round results can be found at sonomaseawolves.com.
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