FRISCO – ACU junior
Corbin Renner has been voted second team all-Southland Conference after he posted an average scoring round of a little more than 72 strokes per round during the 201-14 season.
The team was announced earlier this week and includes five players on the first, second and third teams and seven players on the honorable mention team.
Renner, a native of Little Rock, Ark., posted six top-10 finishes in ACU's 10 tournaments during the season, including a third-place finish at last week's Southland Conference championship tournament in McKinney.
Renner finished with a season scoring average of 72.64 strokes per round over 28 rounds during the campaign. His lowest round was a 65 back on Sept. 10 at the Charles Coody West Texas Intercollegiate at Diamondback Golf Club. That round helped him finish with a two-day total of 135 and his only individual win of the season.
Central Arkansas junior Pep Angles – who won twice during the season and had a conference-low average of 71.14 strokes per round – was voted the league's Player of the Year for the second straight year.
Angles is the first two-time golfer of the year honoree since Lamar's Chris Stroud won from 2001-2004. A native of Barcelona, Spain, Angles is a three-time all-conference selection. Angles averaged a league-best 71.14 shots in 27 rounds of play and captured two individual medalist honors. In 10 tournaments, Angles finished in the top 10 eight times including a wins at the Louisiana Tech Argent Financial Classic in March and the Ole Miss Reunion Intercollegiate in April. The junior finished second at the conference championship for the second consecutive year and posted a tournament-low round of 4-under par 68 in the first and second rounds.
Other postseasons awards went to McNeese State's Hampus Bergman, who was named the conference's freshman of the year, Sam Houston State's Zach Cabra, who was tabbed the league's newcomer of the year, and Sam Houston coach Brandt Kieschnick, who was the selected as the conference's coach of the year.
Joining Angles and Cabra on the first-team all-conference are Houston Baptist junior Preston Stanley, Southeastern Louisiana junior Grady Brame and Sam Houston senior Albert Miner.
Earning second-team all-conference along with Bergman and Renner were UCA sophomore James Newton, Southeastern sophomore Eamon Bradley and Lamar senior Stephane Dubois. The third-team all-conference consists of Lamar junior Gustaf Burenstam, Stephen F. Austin junior Blake Pugh, McNeese sophomore Martin Eriksson, Oral Roberts junior Scott Newell and Southeastern freshman Paul Obermann.
