The All State

By MARLON SCOTT | Senior Staff Writer

High winds challenged all the golfers participating in the Women’s Ohio Valley Conference Championship that began Thursday, April 21, at Greystone Golf Club in Dickson, Tn.

Like true Eagles, the Morehead State team glided on the wind to their first OVC title.

Led by senior Chelsea Harris, the Lady Govs golf team finished the tournament in fifth place.

Harris finished the tournament with a 226 (+10). Her score was tied for fifth best.

She was one of three seniors competing for the Lady Govs for the last time.

“It was a hard day for the seniors,” said head coach Sara Robson.

Catie Tucker and Ashley Wathen were the other two seniors on the team. Wathen shot a 243 (+27) and Tucker shot a 246 (+30).

“The wind was really tough on Tucker today. She kept trying to make something happen.

That is usually when it doesn’t happen, She wanted to go on a good note. She just tried too hard.” Robson said.

“The other girls; Ashley (Wathen), Rachel and (Ashley) Averitt, they battled today. “

“It wasn’t one of those days where putts were falling all over the place.”

“We did play some of the tough holes better today, but we just didn’t make as many pars.”

Deaton shot the second best score on the team in her first OVC championship. She tied for 15th with a 236 (+20).

Harris was the only Lady Gov to break 80 on the last day.

Morehead shot an 890 to earn the OVC title. Murray was 14 strokes behind with 904.

Jacksonville State took third with 924 and Eastern Kentucky earned fourth with 932.

The Lady Govs shot 948. Eastern Illinois (978), Tennessee Tech (981) and Tennessee State (1084) finished at the bottom.

Harris was named to the OVC All-Tournament team for the fourth year in a row. She ended her APSU career by making an eight-foot putt on the 18th hole for par.

“It was great to see Chelsea go out with an even-par round, make a par on that last hole,” Robson said. “To make your final putt on your final hole is pretty awesome.” TAS

By MARLON SCOTT | Senior Staff Writer

APSU athletics director Dave Loos showed off more than his basketball coaching skills at the Swan Lake Golf Course in the 24^th Annual Governors Golf Classic.

The event, sponsored by the Governors Club, Legends Bank and Budweiser of Clarksville, began with some socializing and dinner Thursday, August 26. Then the participants grabbed their clubs and hit the greens Friday and Saturday.

Loos was one of several APSU community members who participated in the four-person team scrambles, which began Friday, August 27, at noon and Saturday, August 28 at 8 a.m.

Some of the other faces putting to benefit APSU’s athletic department included baseball head coach Gary McClure, assistant basketball coaches Brett Campbell and Scott Combs, and political science professor David Kanervo.

It took a scorecard playoff for the team of Jimmy Bryant, Larry Schmidt, Jeff Burkhart and Bob Lewis to claim first on Friday. Shooting a -21, they just beat second place finishers Gene Whitfield, Ron Jackson, Tom Hartz and Ronny Powers

Campbell with teammates Brad Glassell, Randy Spell and Joey Tuck won Saturday’s event. They shot 22-under par, 49.

Outdone by his assistant coach, Loos and teammates George Plaster, Jake Peterson and David Shipley won a scorecard playoff by one stroke to earn second place.

The team of Amanda Phillips, Jeanette Kramer, Britney Campbell and Carla Hazelwood won first place on the women’s side. They shot a -16. The second place team of Missy Rye, Beth Goodowens, Margaret Jones and Jane Stevens shot a -12.

In addition to the scrambles, players competed individually in long drive and closest to the pin games.

Former Gov basketball player Joey Tuck won the long drive. Wayne Ard earned the closest to the pin. For the women, former Lady Govs softball player Jane Goodson took both the long drive and closest to the pin.

The APSU men’s golf team closed out its fall schedule with a sixth-place finish at the F&M Bank APSU Intercollegiate, Tuesday, Oct. 20. The Govs shot a three-round 875 (296-284-293), 14 strokes behind winner Eastern Kentucky, who finished with a five-under par 859 (288-288-283). Samford took home the top prize in 2001. It was the second time for an OVC school, other than the host, to win the event. Towson (862), Oakland (864), Western Illinois (865) and OVC member Jacksonville State (866) rounded out the top five.

Senior Erik Barnes finished with a two-under par 214 (72-69-73), which was good enough for eighth overall. Barnes opened his final round with a birdie on No. 4, but countered it with a bogey on No. 6. His only hiccup on the back nine came with a bogey on No. 16—his second on that hole in the tournament—when a putt stopped just short of the cup. Notwithstanding, it was Barnes’ third top-10 finish of the fall.

Despite a final-round 75, freshman Dustin Korte (tied-18) earned his first career top-20 finish. Korte was in eighth after two rounds, but struggled to maintain his pace after 36 holes.
Junior Chris Dougill finished t-25 after firing three straight 73s for a three-round 219. Junior Luke Sherrod continued to show signs of improvement, finishing tied-55 with a three-round 225. Playing as an individual, sophomore Andrew Miller finished tied-58 with a three-round 226, while senior Eric Anfinson was tied-85 with a 235.