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CSUN Fires Final Round 290, Finishes 16th in Hawai'i
2/8/2020 4:04:00 PM | Men's Golf
WAIKOLOA, Hawai'i - Following rounds of 291-292, the CSUN men's golf team fired a final round 290 on Saturday to move up into 16th-place at the conclusion of The Amer Ari Invitational at Waikoloa Kings' Course.
Freshman Mats Ege was the low Matador player from start to finish as he carded a final round one-over 73 to finish in a tie for 44th. Ege, who finished with rounds of 70-71-73 for a one-over total of 214, finished three shots off his season-low for 54 holes.Â
The Matadors (873), who opened the day in 18th-place, moved up past two teams Saturday with the team score of two-over 290. In a field featuring trio of top-10 teams and 15 teams ranked in the Top 100, Pepperdine (825) won the team title by two shots over No. 2 Texas (827) with Arizona State (828), Oklahoma State (830) and No. 2 Georgia Tech (830) rounding out the top-five in the 20-team field.
CSUN SCORES
"We finished better today than we did in the first two rounds. We moved past a couple of teams in probably the toughest field we'll see all year, so that was definitely encouraging. We've got a quick turnaround so we've got to get ready to play well again starting Monday."
The Matadors are back on the course Monday, competing at the Orange County Classic hosted by Cal State Fullerton and UC Irvine at Coto de Caza Country Club.
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Waikoloa, Hawai'i
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Freshman Mats Ege was the low Matador player from start to finish as he carded a final round one-over 73 to finish in a tie for 44th. Ege, who finished with rounds of 70-71-73 for a one-over total of 214, finished three shots off his season-low for 54 holes.Â
The Matadors (873), who opened the day in 18th-place, moved up past two teams Saturday with the team score of two-over 290. In a field featuring trio of top-10 teams and 15 teams ranked in the Top 100, Pepperdine (825) won the team title by two shots over No. 2 Texas (827) with Arizona State (828), Oklahoma State (830) and No. 2 Georgia Tech (830) rounding out the top-five in the 20-team field.
CSUN SCORES
- Ege bogeyed two of his first five holes on Saturday before making birdie on two of the next five holes to get back to even-par for the day. He remained even through 13 holes when he bogeyed No. 8 and No. 9 to slip to two-over. Ege then went par, par, birdie down the stretch to move to one-over 73 for the day and two-under 214 for the tournament.
- Junior Blake Brothers tied for CSUN's low round of the day, firing a two-under 70. Brothers had three birdies in his way to going three-under through 13 holes. A pair of bogeys dropped him to one-under before a birdie three on his final hole of the day vaulted him up 20 spots into a tie for 70th at two-over 218.
- Freshman Eirik Thomassen matched Brothers with a final round 70 as he bounced back from a disappointing second round to tie for 90th at six-over 222. Thomassen had three birdies, 14 pars and one bogey on Saturday. tied for 105th at eight-over 152 following rounds of 75-77.
- Sophomore Paul-Louis Gachet had four birdies but also had a pair of double bogeys and a quadruple bogey in a final round 77 to finish tied for 95th at eight-over 224. Fellow sophomore Tomas Helgo struggled to a final round 80 to finish in a tie for 102nd at 12-over 228.
- Freshman Brandon McDonough, competing as an individual, for 109th at 15-over 231 following three consecutive rounds of 77-77-77.
"We finished better today than we did in the first two rounds. We moved past a couple of teams in probably the toughest field we'll see all year, so that was definitely encouraging. We've got a quick turnaround so we've got to get ready to play well again starting Monday."
The Matadors are back on the course Monday, competing at the Orange County Classic hosted by Cal State Fullerton and UC Irvine at Coto de Caza Country Club.
THE AMER ARIÂ INVITATIONAL
Waikoloa, Hawai'i
Waikoloa Golf Club
Feb. 6-8, 2020
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| 1. | Pepperdine | 281 | 274 | 270 | 825 (-39) |
| 2. | Texas | 274 | 274 | 279 | 827 (-37) |
| 3. | Arizona State | 275 | 275 | 278 | 828 (-36) |
| 4. | Oklahoma State | 276 | 282 | 271 | 829 (-35) |
| 5. | Georgia Tech | 274 | 269 | 287 | 830 (-34) |
| 16. | CSUN | 291 | 292 | 290 | 873 (+2) |
| T44. | Mats Ege | 70 | 71 | 73 | 214 (-2) |
| T70. | Blake Brothers | 76 | 72 | 70 | 218 (+2) |
| T90. | Eirik Thomassen | 75 | 77 | 70 | 222 (+6) |
| T95. | Paul-Louis Gachet | 71 | 76 | 77 | 224 (+8) |
| T102. | Tomas Helgo | 75 | 73 | 80 | 228 (+12) |
| T109. | Brandon McDonough | 77 | 77 | 77 | 231 (+15) |
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