KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Freshman Daniel Young (Metamora, Ill./Metamora) and senior Coby Thompson (East Galesburg, Ill./Knoxville) both tied for 20th to help lead the Bradley men's golf team to a 10th-place finish at the Bill Ross Intercollegiate in the final Fall tournament for the Braves.
Play was suspended midway through Monday's second round at the par-72 Blue Hills Country Club due to darkness, but BU resumed play Tuesday morning and finished with a season-best round of 297. Bradley followed that up with a third-round 308 and finished with a season-best 54-hole total of 911. The three-round total of 911 is the Braves' best 54-hole total since carding a 904 at the Butler Fall Invitational in October 2009.
Thompson closed out the suspended second-round with a 77 and wrapped up play by matching a season-best 74 in the third round to finish tied with Young at 225. Young fired a season-low 73 in the second round and concluded the tournament with a third-round 77 to match Thompson's three-round total of 225. The top-20 showing was the first top-20 finish in Young's career.
The suspended second round also didn't impact fellow freshman Travis Kreiter (Brimfield, Ill./Brimfield), who turned in the lowest round of the Fall for the Braves with a two-under par 70. Kreiter carded an 83 in the afternoon and finished two shots back of Thompson and Young in a tie for 28th at 227.
Freshman Kyle Gunther (Dunlap, Ill./Peoria Christian) tied a season-low with a 77 in the second round and wrapped up play with a final-round 78 to finish 11 shots behind Kreiter in a tie for 64th at 238, while freshman Andrew Weisenborn (Columbia, Ill./Columbia) rounded out the scoring for Bradley with rounds of 82 and 79 to earn a share of 79th at 247.
Central Arkansas won the team title with a score of 876 and finished 10 shots better than second-place finisher Kansas (886). Tournament-host UMKC was third at 888 and Missouri Valley Conference foe Northern Iowa was fourth at 892. Valley rival Missouri State was two shots back in fifth at 894 and Creighton finished sixth at 899.
South Dakota State and North Dakota State tied for seventh at 908 and Nebraska was ninth overall at 909. Bradley was two shots behind the Cornhuskers in 10th at 911 and the Braves finished 16 shots ahead of 11th-place Oral Roberts (927). Drake took 12th in the standings at 928, while North Dakota (13th - 931) and South Dakota (14th - 955) completed the field.
The Braves are scheduled to open their spring season Feb. 21 & 22 at the Snowman Invitational in Chandler, Ariz.
