ACU season ends with 7th-place finish at SLC tournament

Final Results

MCKINNEY – The ACU golf team wrapped up the 2018 spring season Wednesday with a seventh-place finish at the Southland Conference Tournament.  
 
For the third time in five years Sam Houston State received the league's automatic bid to the NCAA Regional Championships, winning the tournament at 24-over-par 888 at the par-72 Stonebridge Ranch Country Club. McNeese finished as the runner-up with a score of 893, followed by Stephen F. Austin (915) in third place, Central Arkansas in fourth (56-over-par 920) and Houston Baptist in fifth at 77-over-par 941).
 
ACU finished at 80-over-par 944 after shooting 35-over-par in Wednesday's wet and windy conditions, finishing seventh for the second straight season.
 
Central Arkansas' Lewis George took the individual title carding rounds of 71-72-73 to finish even par and earn an automatic bid to the NCAA tournament.
 
ACU sophomore Bryce Dooley finished tied for 11th with scores of 74-73-81 (228), while Kade Miller finished 21st after carding his best round of golf in the final day of the tournament going 3-over-par. The junior went 232 with rounds of 79-78-75 improving his game in each round.
 
Freshman Alex Clouse went 27-over-par finishing tied 35th with rounds of 81-74-88 (243). Junior Garrett Glanton and freshman Daniel Seibert rounded out the playing five for the Wildcats with scores of 244 and 250 for t-37th and 50th, respectively.