Tuesday, October 25, 2011

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 

Wednesday, October 19, 2011

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

Thursday, October 13, 2011

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

Tuesday, October 4, 2011

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!