Cougars Win the 2011 SIUE Intercollegiate Presented by Doubletree

We finished our home tournament a few hours ago and came away with the first Division 1 tournament win in SIUE history!  We battled tough conditions today but came out on top shooting a three round total of 893 (292-293-308), which was good enough for a 7 shot win over Missouri State.  Mitchell Homb (FR.) had a great tournament tying for second place with rounds of 71-72-75!  Alex Knoll (JR.) also had a great tournament tying for fourth place with rounds of 73-76-73 and collected his first top 5 finish in a cougar uniform!  It is a great way to finish the fall and will give us a lot of confidence heading into the winter and into next spring.

Also, thanks for all the support we had this weekend!  I know some traveled a long way to watch us play this week and we really appreciate it!

Go Cougars!!

 1 SIU Edwardsville         292  293  308    893   +29 
   2 Missouri St. U.          291  298  311    900   +36 
   3 Evansville, U. of        293  295  314    902   +38 
   4 Eastern Illinois U.      299  304  301    904   +40 
   5 Southern Illinois U.     310  303  302    915   +51 
   6 Wright State             305  306  307    918   +54 
   7 North Dakota, U. of      307  319  312    938   +74 
   8 Bradley University       315  306  322    943   +79 
   9 Nebraska - Omaha         324  315  321    960   +96 
  10 South Dakota, U. of      313  327  321    961   +97 
  11 Chicago State Univ.      360  353  381   1094  +230 

Mitchell Homb T2nd- 71-72-75- 218

Alex Knoll    T4th- 73-76-73- 222

Colin McCarty T13th-77-71-79- 227

Taylor Cox    T22nd-76-74-82- 232

Grant Wynia   T22nd-72-79-81- 232

Taylor White  T28th-75-74-85- 234- competing as individual

Clark Schmidt T28th-78-75-81- 234- competing as individual 

Austin Peay Intercollegiate Results

We are back and finished 8th of 16 at Austin Peay this weekend and had a lot of great efforts from our team.  We shot our three best rounds of the year 293-291-283 for a 3 over total of 867.  The 283 is the second best score in school history!  We had two guys in the top 20 as Colin McCarty placed 10th shooting 71-73-68 for a four under 212 and the fifth best 54 hole total in school history!  Alex Knoll shot 69-72-72 for a 3 under par 213 to tie for 15th which is a tie for 7th best 54 hole total in school history.  I am very proud of the guys and hope it carries over to our home event which starts on Monday at Sunset Hills CC.

Here are the results:

Colin McCarty- 71-73-68
Alex Knoll 69-72-72
Grant Wynia- 77-73-71
Taylor Cox- 77-73-72
Mitchell Homb- 76-75-79

Austin Peay	279	281	279	839	-25
	2	Jacksonville State	282	282	284	848	-16
	3	Samford	284	277	289	850	-14
	4	Binghamton	287	282	290	859	-5
	5	Eastern Kentucky	288	291	281	860	-4
	6	Belmont	295	281	289	865	+1
	7	Troy	290	277	299	866	+2
	8	SIUE	293	291	283	867	+3
	9	Tennessee Tech	288	286	294	868	+4
	10	Western Illinois	290	294	287	871	+7
t	11	Morehead State	289	286	300	875	+11
t	11	Wright State	301	286	288	875	+11
	13	UT Martin	302	284	292	878	+14
	14	Lipscomb	304	286	298	888	+24
	15	Tennessee State	297	301	300	898	+34
	16	South Dakota	301	293	314	908	+44

Austin Peay Intercollegiate

We are back on the road this Sunday for a trip to Austin Peay's Intercollegiate where we will see our conference members for the first time this year.  The field includes Samford, Tennessee Tech, Eastern Kentucky, Tennessee State, UT-Martin, Oakland, SIUE, Western Illinois, Austin Peay, Binghamton, Belmont, Wright State, Jacksonville State, Lipscomb, Morehead State, Troy and South Dakota.  A good 17 team field consisting of every OVC school except Eastern Illinois.  We are excited to get back on the course and I really feel that we can jump up on some people.  We are continuing to play well in qualifying rounds and showing our full potential. 

Thanks to everyone that has participated in the Birdie Pledge!  We appreciate all the support!

Coach Brown

Top 20 for Homb

Freshman Mitchell Homb had a good tournament this past weekend and earned his first Top 20 performance tying for 17th at the D.A Weibring Invitational.  As a team we need to keep continuing to improve throughout this fall semester and get better each event.  We are excited to get right back on the course this weekend at the Dallio Invitational hosted by Depaul University.  I hope to have some pairing out on Friday.

Thanks for all the support!