March 17, 2013

HOWEY-IN-THE-HILLS,FL--Sophomore Jamison Randall, and freshman Ashton Newsom finished in the top 20 to help lead the Monarchs of Old Dominion to fifth place in the Mission Inn Collegiate Golf Tournament at the Mission Inn Resort.

The Monarchs shot 295 as a team today to move up a spot from yesterday with a final 54-hole total of 887. Indiana won the tournament by two strokes over Purdue and Virginia Tech who tied for second. Georgia State placed fourth at 875.

Randall fired a 73 today for his 54-hole score of 218 to move up from 13th to tie Adam Schenk of Purdue and Corey Aiedonis of Indiana for eighth place. Newsom tied for 16th with a 222 54-hole score. Garth McGee also shot 73 today and tied for 27th with a final total of 224, while Thomas Wilde tied for 23rd at 223 after a 75 today.

Jonathan Grey of Georgia State was the tournament medalist at 70-71-67=208, winning by five strokes over Brant Peaper (72-72-69=213) of Indiana. Newsom tied for 16th after shooting a 74 (73-75-74=222) in today's finals round.

In Tournament statistics, Wilde was fifth in par 3 scoring at 2.92, while Garth McGee, Jamison Randall and Ashton Newsom tied for eighth in par 4 scoring at 4.10. Wilde tied for second in total pars with 39 followed by Newsom, Randall and Dawson with 38. ODU returns to action on March 24-25 at the UNCW Seahawk Invitational.

MISSION INN SPRING GOLF TOURNAMENT
Mission Inn resort, Howey-in-the-Hills, FL.
Hosted by George Mason
Team scores (3 rounds)-18 teams

FINAL RESULTS
1. Indiana 292-286-291=869
T2. Virginia Tech 294-293-284=871
T2. Purdue  288-289-294=871
4. Georgia State 291-294-290=875
5. Old Dominion  295-297-295=887
T6. Florida Atlantic 299-286-310=895
T6. Appalachian state 301-293-301=895
8. Murray State  302-297-309=908
9. Towson   305-306-305=916
10. Hartford  304-305-308=917
11. Marquette  310-302-306=918
T12 Morehead State 305-307-317=929
T12 UCONN       307-316-306=929
14. W.Illinois  313-306-312=931
15  Stetson      320-304-308=932
16. George Mason 305-311-318=934
17 Northern Ill. 311-309-315=935
18. Rutgers  313-321-324=958

ODU GOLFERS
T8.Jamison Randall  70-75-73=218
T16 Ashton Newsom  73-75-74=222
T23 Tom Wilde  76-72-75=223
T27  Garth McGee  76-75-73=224
T41  John Dawson  76-76-75=227