Final Results
WEST CHICAGO, Ill. – Illinois Wesleyan shot a weekend-best 283 in Saturday’s final round of the 2016 College Conference of Illinois & Wisconsin (CCIW) Men’s Golf Championship to win its fifth-straight conference title and 18th overall.
The Titans came back from a 10-stroke deficit heading into play on Saturday and finished with a four-round total of 1164. Carthage finished second (1175), followed by Millikin (1176), Elmhurst (1196), Augustana (1210), Wheaton (1227), North Central (1267) and North Park (1328).
Millikin’s
Blaine Buente took medalist honors with a four-round score of 284, becoming the Big Blue’s first individual winner since Wes Hillen in 2012 and 2013.
Carthage’s
Matt Meneghetti was second (288), while Illinois Wesleyan’s
Conner O’Neil (290) and
Drew Pershing (292) finished third and fourth respectively as O’Neil carded a fourth-round score of three-under par 69 and Pershing finished with a fourth-round score of five-under par 67.
Elmhurst’s
Kyle Brenkman (294), Illinois Wesleyan’s
Tim Tynan (294), Carthage’s
Alex Stewart (295), Elmhurst’s
Sean Lenchner (296), Illinois Wesleyan’s
Trevor Tompkins (296) and Carthage’s
Jarrett Simonson (298) rounded out the top 10.
The conference title was the 13th under head coach Jim Ott, who also took home coach of the year honors. The title also earned the Titans their 10th-straight NCAA Division III Men’s Golf Championship appearance as Ott’s program claimed the CCIW’s automatic qualifier with the win.
The NCAA Championship will be held May 10-13 at Midvale Country Club and Mendon Golf Club in Rochester, N.Y.
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The College Conference of Illinois & Wisconsin (CCIW) was founded in 1946 and currently services eight member institutions including Augustana College (Rock Island, IL), Carthage College (Kenosha, WI), Elmhurst College (Elmhurst, IL), Illinois Wesleyan University (Bloomington, IL), Millikin University (Decatur, IL), North Central College (Naperville, IL), North Park University (Chicago, IL) and Wheaton College (Wheaton, IL). During the 2014-15 academic year, the CCIW honored over 1,500 academic all-conference recipients, 19 CoSIDA Academic All-Americans, 46 CoSIDA Academic All-District recipients and 102 all-Americans.