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Golf: 24th Annual LA Classics Final
The New Orleans Privateers captured the 24th Annual Louisiana Classics on Tuesday afternoon at Oakborne CC. UNO topped Louisiana’s Ragin’ Cajuns by just one shot.
As a team, UNO shot a one-over par score of 289 during Tuesday’s final round. Only SMU and Colorado had a better day than both the Privateers and Cajuns, but both UNO and UL had a cushion after the first two rounds of play on Monday. Louisiana entered Tuesday’s third and final round only two strokes behind the Privateers, but could make-up only one shot after 18 holes. The runner-up finish was the best by the Cajuns at the Louisiana Classics since winning back-to-back titles from 1993-94. The closest any Cajuns team had come to winning since then was a third place finish back in 1999. UL’s Devin Carrey finished one shot behind UNO’s Adam Cornelson and Southeastern Louisiana’s Cedric Scotto for top individual honors. Cornelson won the individual title in the fifth hole of a playoff. Cornelson and Scotto were even after re-playing holes one, two, eight and nine, but Cornelson’s eight-foot birdie putt was good on hole 10 to win the playoff. In addition to Carrey, Kyle Pritchard (t-15th) and Thomas Petts (t-19th) finished in the top 20. After three players recorded a low round of 66 in the first round of the tournament, including Pritchard, just one player carded a six-under score – Colorado’s Pat Grady, during the final round.
Fin. Top 20 Teams Scores 1 New Orleans, U. of 288 281 289 858 2 Louisiana-Lafayette 279 292 288 859 3 SMU 286 292 285 863 4 Southeastern La. U. 279 296 297 872 Texas State Univer. 283 293 296 872 6 Rice University 282 293 298 873 Colorado, U. of 285 302 286 873 8 Memphis, U. of 297 285 294 876 9 Kansas, U. of 296 296 292 884 10 UALR 290 297 298 885 11 UMKC 298 301 295 894 Louisiana Tech Univ. 294 298 302 894 13 North Texas, U. of 299 304 299 902 14 UTSA 309 299 295 903 15 Richmond, Univ. of 301 303 305 909
Fin. Top 20 Players School Scores ** 1 Adam Cornelson N. Orleans 73 68 69 210 2 Cedric Scotto S.E. La. 68 69 73 210 3 Walt Koelbel Kansas 70 68 73 211 Pat Grady Colorado 70 75 66 211 Devin Carrey LA-Lafayet 69 69 73 211 6 Kelly Kraft SMU 73 73 67 213 Michael Whitehead Rice 71 69 73 213 8 Corey Roberson TX State 69 72 73 214 Felipe Velazquez UALR 66 72 76 214 Marc Sambol SMU 70 70 74 214 11 Jose Toledo N. Orleans 71 68 76 215 12 Robert Burrow Rice 69 77 70 216 Nate Barbee Kansas 71 74 71 216 Ken Looper N. Orleans 70 75 71 216 15 James Kwon SMU 74 71 72 217 Kyle Pritchard LA-Lafayet 66 80 71 217 Oscar Zetterwall N. Orleans 74 70 73 217 *Draegen Majors SMU 70 76 71 217 19 Thomas Petts LA-Lafayet 72 74 72 218 Matthew Harvey La. Tech 72 73 73 218
2 Louisiana-Lafayette 279 292 288 859 T 3 Devin Carrey 69 69 73 211 T 15 Kyle Pritchard 66 80 71 217 T 19 Thomas Petts 72 74 72 218 T 26 Philipp Fendt 72 71 77 220 T 57 Dustin Petit 77 78 72 227
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