Claremont-Mudd-Scripps Colleges never let up across the three-day tournament to repeat as winners of the SCIAC Men's Golf Championship by an impressive 20 strokes.
Team Results
Individual Results
Rookie
Samson Li led the Stags with an eight-under par 205, placing second overall while teammates
Sebi Aliaga and
Arnold He tied for third (-7) and placed sixth (-4), respectively.
Jamison Tan also tied for ninth (-2) and
Logan Mills finished tied-11th (E). Both Li and Mills played bogey-free final rounds and Aliaga cancelled out a pair of bogeys with an eagle to close the front nine in the final round.
Pomona-Pitzer was the only other team to finish below-par at -3, with Occidental College and Chapman University tying for third at +12. California Lutheran University finished one stroke behind the Tigers and Panthers, followed by the University of Redlands and the University of La Verne. The Stags held a six-shot advantage on a difficult quartet of Par 3s at Santa Anita Golf Course but did most of their damage on Par 4s where they held a 21-shot advantage.
First-year
Ken Cremers of Pomona-Pitzer took the individual title at -9 while CMS rookie
Samson Li finished runner-up by a single stroke. The Sagehen rookie carded rounds of -5, -2 and -2 in succession after opening the tournament with seven birdies before a first bogey.
Jay Alvarado Wing, representing Redlands, tied for third another stroke back after opening the tournament with an eagle on Hole 1 and recording four more birdies before a first bogey. Cremers was the only player to finish under-par on Par 3s (-1) while Wing beatout the field by three shots on Par 4s. CLU's
Jackson Stitt topped the leaderboard for Par 5s at -8, with La Verne's
David Cho and Pomona-Pitzer's
John Kim tying for second at -6.
CMS has punched its ticket to the NCAA Championship with the tournament victory while others will wait to see if they earn an at-large bid or merit individual selection.
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