Graham Hill Wins PSAC
Golf Title; IUP Places Fourth in Team Competition
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IUP freshman Graham Hill easily won the
individual title at the Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference golf
championship, besting the field by seven shots and finishing as the only
golfer under par for the two-round event.
Hill
(right), from Brights Grove, Ontario, had scores of 70 and 72 and
finished two-under par on the Wren Dale Golf Club course. He
outdistanced Scott Micklewright of Millersville, who finished with a
score of 149. The tournament was only the second of Hill’s college
career.
Micklewright, however, was named MVP of the
tournament after helping the Marauders claim the team championship.
Millersville and Clarion both posted scores of 620, but Millersville won
on the strength of the tiebreaker system that uses the score of both
team’s number five golfer for the second round.
IUP finished in fourth place with a score of 626,
four shots behind Slippery Rock. West Chester (627) and the Kutztown
women’s team (674) rounded out the field.
Dan Thompson shot a 154 to tie for eighth and
give IUP a pair of all-conference players. Thomas Facciani (162, tied
for 16th), Eric Anderson (168, 27th) and Scott
Wildauer (169, tied for 28th) also competed for the Indians.
Chris Bullington matched Wildauer’s score playing as an individual.
This marks the second consecutive season that IUP
has had the individual medalist at the PSAC tournament. Brian Galica
was a four-shot winner at last year’s tournament held in Denver.
This is the first year the PSAC tournament has
been held in the fall in an attempt to take advantage of better weather
and playing conditions. IUP will compete in one more event this fall,
the St. Thomas Aquinas Invitational in Jackson, N.J., next weekend,
before resuming its schedule in March.
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