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GREENWOOD, Ind. – The Great Midwest Athletic Conference Men’s & Women’s Golf Championships return to Four Bridges Country Club on April 18-19 (Monday/Tuesday) in the greater Cincinnati area.
The fourth annual conference tournament for the G-MAC will feature six teams in the men’s standings and five more factoring in women’s scores.
Men’s tee-times at 8 a.m. EST and the women will follow at 9:30 a.m. on Monday morning. Tee-times will follow in eight-minute intervals.
Last year’s G-MAC Championships saw Trevecca Nazarene extend its team dominance as the Trojans captured both men’s and women’s titles on the links.
For the third straight year, both TNU men’s and women’s teams beat the entire field and will look to make it four in a row heading into the 2016 tournament.
TNU junior Alexa Rippy was crowned with medalist honors for the women last spring while Davis & Elkins’ junior Alistair Cameron tamed the blustery conditions that altered scores across the board to emerge as the top male competitor.
The traditional G-MAC Championship banquet will take place on Sunday evening.
Women’s Preview:
Rippy will enter the G-MAC Women’s Golf Championship as the presumed individual favorite after having carded the league’s top seven best 18-hole scores in the 2015-16 season already.
Rippy qualified for the NCAA Division II Championships last year as an individual and found her way into red numbers this year with a coveted under-par round at the Perry Park Spring Fling (70).
The Trojans are deep with veteran experience up and down the lineup with Mikayla Dodson, Marlee Stecker, Haley Smith and 2014 G-MAC Championship medalist Kaylon King, all ready to go. Smith is the lone freshman on the roster and seeing the course last year will only help TNU’s situation.
TNU has typically fielded just four golfers in the past, making the margin for error somewhat slim without a fifth score to discard.
But the overall field on the women’s side remains intact for the most part. Nine of the top 10 all-conference performers are back this year, including four all-conference senior performers from Ursuline (Eadaoin Cronin, Chasey Rotondo, Talia Trovato, Ashley Rideout).
The only all-conference omission would be Ohio Valley’s Lindsey Osborne, but the Fighting Scots’ Victoria Nichols is one to watch after winning conference athlete of the week honors this spring.
Kentucky Wesleyan’s Summer Newsome earned G-MAC Freshman of the Year in 2014-15 and Julia Heser of Alderson Broaddus has anchored the Battlers with consistent scoring.
Men’s Preview:
Trevecca Nazarene has had Payton Williams, Larken Whittemore and Spencer Scarborough, receive G-MAC Athlete of the Week status at some point this year, rendering them a tough 1-2-3 unit.
Add to the mix all-conference performing senior Aaron Burnett with a 14th-place finish by Logan Martin last year at Four Bridges and the Trojans will once again be a handful for the competition.
Williams has logged four of the G-MAC’s best scores this spring, including a conference record-breaking 67 at the Phoenix Invitational. Williams has also posted a 68 to tie the previous record and has a pair of 69’s to his credit.
Last year’s individual runner-up, Adam “James” Jeffries, leads Alderson Broaddus as the Battlers came within just one stroke of tying Trevecca Nazarene’s three-round total of 982 in last year's conference tournament.
You can bet AB will enter with a chip on its shoulder given how close the final results were in 2015. Jeffries finished with back-to-back rounds of 78 while G-MAC Freshman of the Year Seth Vannoy tied for fifth.
Cameron (76-75-78--229) won last year’s event by six strokes with Ohio Valley’s Jorge Herrera and Kentucky Wesleyan’s Patrick Schirmer rising to the forefront with third and fourth-place finishes.
Cedarville’s Taylor Holt has shined throughout the course of this year and fired a 76 in the second round of the conference meet last year, the second-best score in the event. John Sandlas and Jordan Glick each finished in the top seven at Four Bridges in 2015.
Social Media Coverage:
The G-MAC will be conducting interviews and posting videos/pictures to various social media outlets including Snapchat (greatmidwestac), Twitter (greatmidwestac) and Instagram (greatmidwestac). Live scoring will not be available for the tournament - low or notable rounds will be posted on Twitter upon the completion of those performances.