Tusculum Men, Wingate Women Take SAC Golf Championship Leads after 36 Holes
Two rounds are in the books at the 2014 Food Lion SAC Golf Championship, with the Tusculum men and Wingate women on top of the team leaderboards. Tuesday’s final round is tentatively scheduled to tee off at 8:30 a.m., pending weather conditions.
SEVIERVILLE, Tenn. – Two rounds are in the books at the 2014 Food Lion SAC Golf Championship, with the Tusculum men and Wingate women on top of the team leaderboards. Tuesday's final round is tentatively scheduled to tee off at 8:30 a.m., pending weather conditions.
The Tusculum men finished with a team score of 301 on Monday, led by a round of 73 from Nick Forsberg, who is three-over after two rounds and second on the individual leaderboard. TC will open the final round one stroke ahead of Wingate, which posted a second-round score of 298.
Leading the Bulldogs on Monday was Ben Gebhardt, who moved into the individual lead with a championship-best round of five-under 67.
Carson-Newman equaled Wingate's second-round team score of 298, and is currently tied with LMU for third in the team standings at 611. The Railsplitters finished Monday with a team score of 306.
Newberry is fifth in the men's standings at 615, followed by No. 6 Queens at 618, No. 7 Coker at 620, No. 8 Brevard at 626 and No. 9 Catawba at 632. Rounding out the men's standings are Anderson in 10th at 635, Lenoir-Rhyne in 11th at 643, and Mars Hill in 12th at 647.
After Gebhardt and Forsberg, Newberry's Richard Mansell, LMU's Connor Froning and Coker's Josh Clay are tied for third in the men's individual standings at five over. Mansell carded a 72, Clay a 73 and Froning a 74 on Monday.
On the women's side, Wingate remains in the lead following a score of 325 in round two. WU – paced by a round of 80 from Johanna Neumann – enters Tuesday with a 10-stroke advantage over Queens, which tallied Monday's top team score of 329.
Neumann is also tied for the individual lead with Catawba's Madison Kennedy at 13-over 157. Kennedy fired a round of 79 on Monday.
Coker is third in the women's team standings at 670, followed by Newberry at 671, Carson-Newman at 680 and Catawba at 683. Completing the women's leaderboard are No. 7 Tusculum at 685, No. 8 LMU at 697, No. 9 Anderson at 725, No. 10 Lenoir-Rhyne at 741 and No. 11 Mars Hill at 756.
LMU's Sydney Gallant and Coker's Taylor Demby are tied for third on the women's individual leaderboard at plus-16 160, while Tusculum's Taylor Lambertson is fifth at 17 over.