Wabash finished tenth out of 15 teams at the Ohio Wesleyan University Strimer Memorial Golf Invitational, held Saturday at Dornoch Golf Course in Delaware, Ohio. The tournament was originally scheduled for two days, but Sunday's round was cancelled due to snow.
JP Manalo (Ft. Wayne, IN/Bishop Dwenger) (photo left) shot twin 41's on the front and back nine Saturday for a total of 82, finishing tied for 19th out of 91 golfers in the individual standings. Freshman Clay Koehler (West Lafayette, IN/Harrison) fired an 84 for a tie for 30th. Elliot Vice (Ladoga, IN/Southmont) was one stroke back at 85 (T-39th), while senior Kevin Casey (Indianapolis, IN/Cathedral) and junior Aaron Selby (Crawfordsville, IN/Southmont) each finished with a 94 (T-73rd).
Wabash scored a 345 as a team, five strokes away from moving up to seventh. Franklin and Otterbein tied for the title with 321 strokes. Denison was third (325), followed by Wooster (330), Ohio Wesleyan (332), Muskingum (336), Wittenberg (341), Baldwin-Wallace (343), and John Carroll (344). Olivet (347), Hiram (350), Oberlin (377), Capital (383), and Kenyon (398) rounded out the team scoring.
Denison, Wooster, OWU, Wittenberg, Hiram, Oberlin, and Kenyon will be joined by Allegheny this weekend when Wabash serves as host for the 2005 North Coast Athletic Conference Men's Golf Championship. The two-day event will be held at the Harrison Hills Golf Course in Attica, Indiana. The first group will tee off at 9:30 a.m. on Friday and again on Saturday.