Cajuns slip back one spot in Sun Belt golf
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UL squad sixth entering final round, three strokes out of third
MUSCLE SHOALS, Ala. – UL’s golf team slipped back one spot in Tuesday’s second round, but remains in the hunt for a high finish in the Sun Belt Conference Golf Tournament entering the final round.
The Ragin’ Cajuns added a 303 to their opening 297 total, and stand s at 24-over-par 600 going into Wednesday’s final 18 holes. The Cajuns are 14 back of 41st-ranked and front-running Middle Tennessee, but are only two strokes out of fourth place.
Middle held onto its first-round lead with a 300 score on Tuesday, but New Orleans made a big move with the low round of Tuesday’s play with a five-over 293 team score. The Privateers are only three strokes back at 589, and South Alabama is one more stroke behind at 390.
North Texas and UL Monroe are each two strokes ahead of the Cajuns at 598 after two trips around the 7,171-yard par-72 “Fighting Joe” layout at the Robert Trent Jones at the Shoals complex.
The Cajuns couldn’t match their consistency from Monday’s first round when all four of UL’s counting scores ranked in the top 25 individually and the lowest score the Cajuns had to count was a three-over 75. Instead, UL had to count both a 77 and an 80 in Tuesday’s second round.
Kyle Pritchard, though, rebounded from an opening 75 with a one-under-par 71 in the middle round, and he stands tied for eighth individually at two-over 146. His 71 tied for the third-lowest round of the day.
UL’s Philipp Fendt, who was tied for 10th after an opening 73, added a 75 to stand at four-over 148 and tied for 15th entering the final round. Andrew Noto (75-77–152) is tied for 28th, Thomas Disch (74-80—154) is tied for 34th and Mark Brockhurst (77-82—159) is 50th in the 60-player field.
UNO’s Oscar Zetterwall holds the individual lead at 71-66—137, seven-under-par after shooting the day’s low round by four strokes Tuesday. He is six strokes ahead of the field. Carlos Ortiz of North Texas, who blazed to a 64 on Monday to tie the course record and lead the event by six shots, skied to an 83 on Tuesday and shot himself completely out of the top 10.
The final round will begin at 8 a.m. Wednesday with UL paired with North Texas and UL Monroe.
SUN BELT CONFERENCE GOLF TOURNAMENT
SECOND ROUND SCORES
TEAM
1. Middle Tennessee 286-300—586
2. New Orleans 296-293—589
3. South Alabama 296-294—590
4. North Texas 291-307—598
4. UL Monroe 302-296–598
6. UL Lafayette 297-303—600
7. Arkansas State 303-298—601
8. Western Kentucky 298-306—604
9. Florida Atlantic 305-303—608
10. Ark.-Little Rock 308-302—610
11. Troy 312-304—616
12. Denver 308-309—617
INDIVIDUAL
1. Oscar Zetterwall, UNO 71-66—137
2. Hunter Green, MT 73-70—143
3. Troy Anderson, DU 72-73—145
3. Rodolfo Cazaubon, UNT 72-73—145
3. Chris Plumelli, USA 72-73—145
3. Craig Smith, MT 70-75—145
3. Alex Yost, WKU 71-74—145
8. Marc-Eltienne Bussieres, USA 73-73—146
8. Kyle Pritchard, UL 75-71—146
8. Jack Hiluta, USA 73-73—146
11. Linus Gillgren, UALR 76-71—147
11. Jason Millard, MT 73-74—147
11. Carlos Ortiz, UNT 64-83—147
11. Nick Wilson, ULM 70-77—147
15. Philipp Fendt, UL 73-75—148
15. Ken Looper, UNO 74-74—148
15. Wessel Zwiegers, ASU 76-72—148
18. Espen Kofstad, DU 76-73—149
18. Michael Oates, ULM 74-75—149
20. Hector Arias, UNO 76-74—150
20. Doug Kleeschulte, WKU 75-75—150
20. Chris Pledger, ASU 76-74—150
20. Kell Shenep, ASU 75-75—150
20. Ben Silverman, FAU 76-74—150
25. Kent Bulle, MT 70-81—151
25. Neil Horsley, WKU 78-73—151
25. Adam McCleary, ULM 79-72—151
28. Andrew Noto, UL 75-77—152
28. Richard Casko, Troy 74-78—152
28. Justin Eaves, Troy 79-73—152
28. Sebastian Gunnarsson, UALR 78-74—152
32. McLain Leberte, USA 78-75—153
32. Kelly McHugh, FAU 78-75—153
34. Thomas Disch, UL 74-80—154
34. Dylan Raines, UALR 77-77—154
34. Sebastian Szirmak, UNO 75-79—154
37. Marco Scarola, UNT 79-76—155
37. James Searson, ULM 83-72—155
37. Brad Simons, MT 74-81—155
40. Peter Fallon, UNT 76-80—156
40. Klointon Krieger, DU 76-80—156
40. Reid Merritt, Troy 77-79—156
40. Justin Thompson, FAU 82-74—156
40. Tyler Thompson, ASU 79-77—156
45. Carl McCauley, FAU 73-84—157
45. Zachary Portemont, Troy 83-74—157
47. Michael Baskovich, FAU 78-80—158
47. Andrew Heiser, WKU 74-84—158
47. Dustin Thompson, UNT 80-78—158
50. Mark Brockhurst, UL 77-82—159
51. Lloyd du Preez, ASU 76-84—160
52. Nicklaus Benton, UALR 77-84—161
52. Rourke Van Der Spuy, Troy 82-79—161
52. Felipe Velazquez, UALR 81-80—161
55. Blake Kelley, USA 79-82—162
56. Jeremy Cross, ULM 79-84—163
57. Jon Lopez, DU 84-84—168
58. Derek East, UNO 83-86—169
59. Kevin Gillick, DU 87-83—170
60. Logan Edelen, WKU 92-87—179
