Seven SCIAC men’s golf teams converge in Arcadia this weekend as Claremont-Mudd-Scripps Colleges looks to continue a dominant regular season while strong individual finishes have given hope to multiple challengers ahead of the 2026 SCIAC Men’s Golf Championship.
Championship Central
CMS staged a rally for the ages to reclaim last year’s SCIAC Championship trophy in Costa Mesa, turning a 13-shot deficit heading into the final round into a seven-shot advantage to finish at 34-below par (830) over the 56 holes. Coaching Staff of the Year winner
Mitchell Fedorka has overseen seven dual and tournament victories in nine outings for the Stags this year, including both SCIAC 1 and 2 titles by a combined 30 strokes that has propped up CMS as the seventh-ranked team in Division III.
Samson Li leads a standout rookie class that also includes
Sebi Aliaga and
Logan Mills ranked among the national Top 50 while sophomore
Ryan Liang finished one stroke off individual medalist honors to Li at SCIAC 1.
Pomona-Pitzer Colleges rank 24
th in the latest Scoreboard powered by clippd ratings, having finished third at both SCIAC regular season tournaments. Three-time All-SCIAC selection
John Kim placed fifth and tied-14
th at SCIACs 2 and 1, respectively to rank 38
th nationally for the Sagehens.
Rookie
Jackson Stitt has helped California Lutheran University to runner-up finishes at both SCIAC events while ranking among the top 100 players in the nation for DIII’s 28
th-rated squad. The first-year topped the individual leaderboard by a full three strokes at Morongo Golf Course at Tukwet Canyon for SCIAC 2, nearly elevating the Kingsmen to a team victory that fell just three strokes short.
Occidental College finished just one stroke behind the Sagehens in fourth place and three ahead of the Bulldogs at Olivas Links in Ventura before Redlands took fourth just four strokes shy of Pomona-Pitzer but 19 clear of Chapman University at SCIAC 2.
Owen Wolak tied for fourth as the joint highest non-CMS finisher at SCIAC 1 with the University of La Verne’s
Manuel Huerta and Pomona-Pitzer’s
Ken Cremers, while the Bulldogs’ former Newcomer of the Year
Jay Alvarado Wing tied for second at SCIAC 2 and Chapman’s
Conner Conley placed sixth.
The three-day tournament will run from Thursday, Apr. 23-Saturday, Apr. 25 at Santa Anita Golf Course in Arcadia with tee times each morning set for at 9 a.m.
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