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VOLS DROP 3-2 DECISION TO INDIANA
Final Match Play Contest Tuesday Against Oklahoma State; Winner Claims Seventh Place
Tennessee’s solace for
losing in Monday’s consolation bracket at the Callaway Collegiate Match
Play Championship round is no consolation at all.
The
Vols draw perennial power Oklahoma State on Tuesday in the
seventh-place match after dropping a 3-2 decision Monday to
sixth-seeded Indiana.
UT’s Jay Vandeventer and
Rick Lamb both won for the second time this week. Vandeventer claimed
the final hole with a bogey for a 1-up victory over Indiana’s David
Mills, while Lamb led for all but three holes in defeating Corey
Ziedonis by a 2 and 1 margin.
But the Vols couldn’t push any of the other three matches past 16 holes in falling to the 32nd-ranked Hoosiers.
Oklahoma
State, ranked 22nd by Golfstat.com and seeded fourth in this week’s
16-team field, lost like Tennessee on Monday for the second match in a
row, this time to East Carolina by a score of 3½-1½. UT entered the
week ranked 49th nationally by Golfstat.
Both the
Vols and Cowboys are 1-2 after three rounds at The Concessions Golf
Club in Bradenton, Fla. Tuesday’s winner earns seventh-place honors and
the loser takes eighth.
Indiana 3, VOLS 2
Vandeventer
faced his largest deficit of the week Monday when Indiana’s Mills won
two of the first three holes. But the Vols junior quickly turned the
tables by winning four straight holes with three birdies and a par
between Nos. 10-13 (match began on No. 6).
Mills
rallied to force another tie through 13 holes played and the pair were
still tied entering play on the final hole, the 478-yard, par-4 fifth.
Vandeventer made bogey but Mills could do no better than 6 and UT
claimed the 1-up decision.
Vandeventer improved his record to 2-0-1 at the Collegiate Match Play.
Lamb
also has two wins after he was in control for most of Monday’s match.
The UT junior won the first hole against Indiana’s Corey Ziedonis but
suddenly trailed by one after four holes played.
Lamb
then proceeded to win four straight holes over Nos. 12-15 (match began
on No. 8), playing them in 3 under par for a three-hole advantage.
Ziedonis climbed to within one with two holes remaining, but Lamb
birdied the par-3 sixth to close out the match at 2 and 1.
Lamb is 2-1 at the Collegiate Match Play.
Garrick
Porteous fell behind early and never recovered in dropping a 4 and 3
decision to Indiana’s Chase Wright. The Vols senior captain was four
holes down after five played and drew no closer than 3-down the rest of
the way.
Marshall Talkington was even through five
but then stumbled and lost 3 and 2 to Indiana’s David Erdy. The UT
sophomore was 1-down through seven played when Erdy won three straight
on Nos. 16-18 (match began on No. 9). Talkington crept within two with
three to play but was closed out when he bogeyed the par-3 sixth.
Brandon
Rodgers lost 3 and 2 to Indiana’s Brant Peaper. Rodgers and Peaper were
all square through eight holes played when the Hoosiers golfer won
three straight over Nos. 15-17 (match began on No. 7). The pair then
halved the next five holes to finish the match.
Indiana 3, VOLS 2
Match 1 – Chase Wright, Indiana d. Garrick Porteous, TENNESSEE, 4 and 3
Match 2 – Jay Vandeventer, TENNESSEE d. David Mills, Indiana, 1-up
Match 3 – Brant Peaper, Indiana d. Brandon Rodgers, TENNESSEE, 3 and 2
Match 4 – Rick Lamb, TENNESSEE d. Corey Ziedonis, Indiana, 2 and 1
March 5 – David Erdy, Indiana d. Marshall Talkington, TENNESSEE, 3 and 2
Monday’s Results
Championship Bracket
No. 1 Arkansas d. No. 5 Chattanooga, 5-0
No. 3 Duke d. No. 2 California, 3-2
Fifth-Place Bracket
No. 9 East Carolina d. No. 4 Oklahoma State, 3½-1½
No. 6 Indiana d. No. 10 TENNESSEE, 3-2
Ninth-Place Bracket
No. 8 Iowa d. No. 13 Colorado State, 3-2
No. 7 Liberty d. No. 14 Arizona State, 4-1
13th-Place Bracket
No. 16 Washington State d. No. 12 South Florida, 3-2
No. 15 UNC Wilmington d. No. 13 Kennesaw State, 4½-½
Tuesday’s Schedule
Championship
No. 1 Arkansas vs. No. 3 Duke
Third Place
No. 2 California vs. No. 5 Chattanooga
Fifth Place
No. 6 Indiana vs. No. 9 East Carolina
Seventh Place
No. 10 TENNESSEE vs. No. 4 Oklahoma State
Ninth Place
No. 7 Liberty vs. No. 8 Iowa
11th Place
No. 13 Colorado State vs. No. 14 Arizona State
13th Place
No. 15 UNC Wilmington vs. No. 16 Washington State
15th Place
No. 12 South Florida vs. No. 13 Kennesaw State
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