Bulldogs move up three spots on final day of Nebraska Intercollegiate

NORFOLK, Neb. – The Concordia University men’s golf team closed its fall season on Saturday, carding a 312 at the Nebraska Intercollegiate meet in the second and final round of the tournament. The four-stroke improvement compared to Friday helped bump the Bulldogs (316-312–628) up from 10th place to seventh out of the 13 Nebraska institutions at the meet.

Individually, senior Shawn Rodehorst turned in the highest finish among Bulldogs, tying for 12th with a two-round 75-75–150.

Rodehorst’s 75s topped Concordia both days. Sophomore Reid Wiebe and freshman Rusell Otten followed Rodehorst on Saturday with 78s. Wiebe tied for 19th place with his cumulative score of 75-78–153. Otten tied for 48th by carding a 83-78–161.

The remainder of the lineup included freshmen Payton DeVencenty (80-82–162, T-54th) and Tyler Ehresman (84-81–165, T-58th).

Concordia ended up finish ahead of all the Nebraska community colleges that competed as well as one of Midland’s two teams at the meet. The Bulldogs finished five strokes behind sixth-place Doane. Hastings won the tournament by carding a 298-293–591.

Head coach Brett Muller’s squad concludes the fall season with a team average of 308.2 over six meets and nine total rounds. It achieved a season low score of 300 at both GPAC Qualifier No. 1 and the Midland Fall Invite. Rodehorst owns the team’s lowest individual average of 75.4. The best individual round of 69 was turned in by both Rodehorst (Siouxland Invite) and Russell Otten (Midland Invite).

The Bulldogs will resume the 2014-15 season this coming spring when two more GPAC qualifiers are held. The complete spring schedule is yet to be released.