Oct. 7, 2003
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Men's Golf team scores tourney championship
Lions rally from three back after Day 1

Led by a 70 and three scores of 71, the Missouri Southern men's golf team shaved 14 strokes from its opening round score and rallied for the tournament championship on Tuesday at the Missouri Southern Fall Invitational.

The Lions were one-under par as a team on Tuesday with a 283 and finished the tournament with a score of 580. Southern won by six strokes over Missouri Western, which finished with 586 (297-289).

Junior Andrew Koehler (Superior, Wis.) finished with a one-under-par 70 to lead the Lions on Day 2 of the tournament, played on the par-71, 6,628-yard Loma Linda Country Club. Koehler finished as one of three MSSU players with 145 for their tournament total. Koehler was five-under on par-5s in the tournament and had seven birdies.

Junior Danny Sinksen (Sioux Falls, S.D./Roosevelt HS) shot 145 (74-71), as did senior Andrew Watts (Carthage, Mo.). Watts shot 74-71 in the tournament. Sinksen ended tied for the tournament best with nine birdies. Watts, like Koehler, had seven.

Junior Geir Askvik (Oslo, Norway/Dodge City CC) finished with 147 (74-73) and junior Travis Stockholm (Springfield, S.D./Paris CC) had a 149 (78-71).

Sinksen, Koehler, Watts and Askvik all placed in the top 10 for the tournament.

Missouri-St. Louis, the Day 1 leader with 294, finished third in the tournament with a 591. Central Missouri State and Washburn tied for fourth with 592. CMSU shot 296 on both days, while Washburn had a 292 on Tuesday.

With the win in the second Mid-America Intercollegiate Athletics Association-sanctioned event of the fall, the Lions are on top in the current conference standings with 13 points, as they received seven points for Tuesday's win. Central Missouri State is second with 11.5 points (including 4.5 for their fourth-place tie). Washburn is third with 9.5 points, followed by Missouri Western with nine.