UCF Men's Golf Finishes 11th At ASU Thunderbird InvitationalUCF Men's Golf Finishes 11th At ASU Thunderbird Invitational

UCF Men's Golf Finishes 11th At ASU Thunderbird Invitational

April 15, 2007

Orlando, Fla. (www.ucfathletics.com) - The UCF men's golf team posted a final round score of 291 to place 11th at the ASU Thunderbird Invitational. Freshman Nuno Henriques (Funchal, Portugal/The Pendleton School) shot the team's lowest round of the three-day event in Sunday's final round at the Karsten Golf Course in Tempe, Ariz.

Henriques carded a 70 (-2) and was joined in red figures by junior Guwon Suh, who was the highest Knight finisher, tying for 30th. Suh fired a 71 (-1) to finish with a three-day total of 217 (+1).

Oregon (844, -20) led from wire-to-wire to post the team victory by three strokes over the host Sun Devils. New Mexico's Charlie Beljan captured medalist honors with a total of 201 (-15). The Ducks' Derek Sipe (204, -12) finished three shots behind to earn runner-up honors.

Sophomore Preston Brown (Ponte Vedra Beach, Fla./Nease) was third among the Knight golfers. Brown shot a final round 74 (+2) and tied for 45th (219, +3).

Freshman Mike Stern tied for 50th after a final round 76 (+4). He finished with a three-day total of 221 (+5). Sophomore Greg Forest carded a 79 (+7) and was 12-over (228) for the tournament.

The Knights will return to action at the Conference USA Championship where they were runner-up as first-year members of the league a year ago. The Championships are slated for April 30-May 1 in Texarkana, Ark.

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Team Leaderboard - (Final Round)Rank Team Totals1 Oregon 277-279-288 = 844 (-20)2 Arizona State 281-283-283 = 847 (-17)3 Southern California 278-285-286 = 849 (-15)4 Texas A&M 282-279-289 = 850 (-14)5 Arizona 287-277-288 = 852 (-12)6 UNLV 285-284-285 = 854 (-10)7 Texas Tech 279-292-284 = 855 (-9)8 New Mexico 291-277-289 = 857 (-7)9 Oklahoma 282-287-291 = 860 (-4)10 California 287-287-299 = 873 (+9)11 UCF 291-292-291 = 874 (+10)12 Arizona State (B) 297-294-285 = 876 (+12)13 San Diego State 298-284-296 = 878 (+14)14 Fresno State 296-296-289 = 881 (+17)15 Baylor 288-298-303 = 889 (+25)16 Kansas State 289-307-297 = 893 (+29)
Individual LeaderboardRank Player (School) Total1 Charlie Beljan (New Mexico) 66-67-68 = 201 (-15)2 Derek Sipe (Oregon) 65-66-73 = 204 (-12)3 Rory Hie (Southern California) 67-69-69 = 205 (-11)4 Aaron Goldberg (San Diego State) 70-66-71 = 207 (-9)5 Jesse Schutte (Oklahoma) 68-70-70 = 208 (-8) Niklas Lemke (Arizona State) 72-67-69 = 208 (-8)
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