HCAC Men's Golf Tournament (Rd. 1 & 2) Set to Tee Off this Weekend
2012 HCAC Spring Scoring Leaders (click here)
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Rd. 1 Results (click here)
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GREENWOOD, IN – The 2012 HCAC men’s golf tournament gets underway this weekend in Seymour, Indiana. The men’s golf championship will be a 72-hole format with the first two rounds set for the 6,739 yard par 72 Shadowood Golf Course in Seymour on Saturday and Sunday. The final rounds will take place at Honeywell Golf Course in Wabash, Indiana on May 5-6.
The conference champion will earn an automatic bid to the NCAA Division III National Championships which will be held on May 15-18 in Howey-in-the-Hills, Florida.
Transylvania University will enter the tournament as the five-time defending champion and ranked No. 4 nationally. The Pioneers earned their fifth conference championship, defeating second place Mount St. Joseph by 28 strokes last spring.
Transy earned the title at the Hanover Invitational on April 1-2 at Shadowood Golf Course. The Pioneers topped the field that featured all eight HCAC squads, holding off second place Mount St. Joseph by 36 strokes.
Transy’s Justin Tereshko (Madison, Ind./H.S.) finished second at the HCAC championship last spring and will look for MVP honors this time around. Tereshko, alongside teammate Jantzen Latham (Central City, Ky./Muhlenberg Co.), holds the top scoring average in the HCAC this spring season (73.2 strokes per round). Transy sophomore Clay Hinton (Elizabethtown, Ky./H.S.) placed third last spring, finishing five shots off the lead.
Transylvania has received very consistent play from several individuals, placing seven players on the top ten scoring average list for the conference this spring season.
Anderson’s Daniel Elliott (Hope, Ind./Hauser) and Mount St. Joseph’s Kenny Brosnan (Cincinnati, Ohio/LaSalle) join Transy’s Tereshko, Hinton, and Latham as returning All-HCAC selections from a year ago.
The top eight finishers after the four rounds are complete will earn All-HCAC honors. The top freshman finisher will receive the Freshman of the Year award. Action will get underway Saturday at 11:00 AM and Sunday at 9:30 AM.
