SAN ANTONIO – Yannick Schütz and Peter Staalbo both fired a 3-under-par 69 Tuesday in the final round of the Lone Star Invitational, helping the University of South Alabama men's golf program post the low team round of the two-day tournament.

The Jaguars had a 1-under-par 287 group score over the second 18 holes of the event, with Rasmus Karlsson adding a 74 and Jordan Plunkett carding a 75.  With the performance, South moved up from 11th place to finish sixth in the team standings with a 597 total.

Texas-San Antonio, the tournament host, carded a 289 team score for the second day in a row, posting a 2-over-par 578 figure to win the event after finishing two shots ahead of Arkansas State.  Sean Meehan of UTSA and the Red Wolves' Zan Luka Stirn shared medalist honors after both concluded play with a 4-under-par 140 total.

TOURNAMENT INFORMATION
Event (host): Lone Star Invitational (Texas-San Antonio)
Date: 9/11
Course: TPC San Antonio AT&T Oaks Course (par 72, 7,435 yds)
Live scoring: http://results.golfstat.com//public/leaderboards/gsnav.cfm?pg=participants&tid=16064

TEAM SCORES
1) Texas-San Antonio 289-289—578 (+2); 2) Arkansas State 291-289—580; T3) Little Rock 295-294—589; T3) Sam Houston State 296-293—589; 5) ULM 298--293—591; 6) South Alabama 310-287—597; T7) Texas State 297-302—599; T7) Rice 311-288—599; 9) North Texas 303-297—600; 10) Louisiana 300-303—603; 11) UT Arlington 308-298—606; 12) McNeese State 309-305—614; 13) Southern Mississippi 313-306—619; 14) Lipscomb 325-295—620; 15) Texas-El Paso 313-312—625.

INDIVIDUAL LEADERS
T1) Sean Meehan, UTSA 68-72—140 (-4); T1) Zan Luka Stirn, ASU 70-70—140; 3) Cameron DeBonis, SHSU 73-68—141; 4) Joel Wendin, ASU 71-71—142; T5) Justin Warren LR 72-72—144; T5) Linus Samuelsson, LU 74-70—144; T5) Grayson Blunt, SHSU 72-72—144; T8) Chad Sewell, UTSA 75-70—145; T8) Thomas Rosenmueller, NT 75-70—145; T10) six individuals with 146.

SOUTH ALABAMA SCORES
T10) Yannick Schütz 77-69—146 (+2); T20) Peter Staalbo 79-69—148; T30) Rasmus Karlsson 76-74—150; T36) Dawson Atkinson* 79-72—151; T48) Jordan Plunkett 78-75—153; T75) Kyle Robinson 81-79—160.
*denotes competed as an individual

TEE SHOTS
-Schütz recorded his second career top-10 performance, finishing among the top 20 individually for the seventh time since the start of last season.
-The junior birdied Nos. 11 and 17 — playing at 405 and 347 yards, respectively — to make the turn 2-under par, adding a two at the seventh as part of his bogey-free round.
-It was the 12th time in his career that Staalbo has put together a top-20 result.
-Staalbo shared the team lead with four birdies in the round, with three of those coming on par fives at the 14th, 18th and second holes.
-Freshman Dawson Atkinson — competing individually — also shot even par in the final round, carding three of his four birdies on the course's back nine.
-Karlsson tied for second in the field of 84 individuals with eight birdies over two days.
-Staalbo and Plunkett were tied for second individually as well with 2-under-par scores on par-three holes.
-As a group, the Jaguars finished third among the 15 schools competing both with 25 birdies and a 1 over score on par threes.

THEY SAID IT
Head coach Ben Hannan
On the team's performance in the second round: "The team showed a lot of determination, they showed up today very focused and competed well to post the low round of the tournament.  I was very pleased with the effort and the focus as a group."
On the play of Peter Staalbo and Yannick Schütz: "Peter got off to a good start, he played very solid all day and made a lot of putts to keep the round going.  Yannick had a great ball-striking day, he really gave himself a ton of opportunities in a bogey-free round.  They both closed well to help us."
On building on the momentum from the final round with a two-week break: "When we return we will get to work, we played at Shoal Creek last year so we have the ability to put together a game plan and start to prepare as a group for what we might be seeing in the next couple of weeks.  We will take the lesson from yesterday to today and continue to build on that and the process, which makes all the difference in the world for us."

Up next: South will next be in action when play begins on Monday, Sept. 24 at Alabama-Birmingham's Shoal Creek Invitational.

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