The Red River Conference championship took place April 16th & 17th at TeraVista Golf course in Round Rock, Texas.
Consisting of 6 teams including 3rd ranked Texas Wesleyan and 14th ranked Our Lady of the Lake University, the Knights knew that they had thier work cut out in order to compete at the National Championship.
"The players came in rested and playing well, we have been improving every tournament regardless of whether the scores have reflected it or not. This tournament however is the big one and we need to do what we haven't done all spring and that is PLAY WELL!!"
The Knights played solid golf in the first round shooting 293 to lay in 3rd place behind leaders OLLU and UT-Brownsville (290) and one shot ahead of Texas Wesleyan.
The second round again brought solid, if unspectacular, golf with the Knights shooting 294.
Leading the team was Junior Travis Kemp (72-71), Joss Gosling added a 71 to his first round 75, Derek Trofimczuk opened with a one under par 71 and added a 77 to his opening round score. Rounding out the Knights were Jt Zaiger (75-75) and Daniel Stoakes (78-83).
The Knights were 11 shots behind the leaders, Texas Wesleyan, going into the 3rd round and needed a great score to overcome them and OLLU.
The Knights could never quite get going as they came in with a second successive 294 to lie 13 shots behind winners Texas Wesleyan.
In the final round Derek Trofimczuk again played solid firing 71, Joss Gosling 72, JT Zaiger 75 and Travis Kemp and Daniel Stoakes shot 76.
Coach Belfield "The guys were much closer than anyone expected us to be after our spring season. They played mostly solid golf but in the second and final round just couldn't overcome a few loose shots. I was really pleased with the guys play because we haven't played anywhere near that level all spring. It was great for this young squad to be in contention and hopefully this will provide them a big boost going into next year!"
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