DALLAS, Texas - South Alabama men's golf secured a third place finish in a highly competitive field of 16 teams at the Trinity Forest Invitational on Tuesday (-31), falling just one stroke behind a tie for first between Southern California and Rice (-32).

The Jaguars played an extremely strong tournament with their second round being the lowest single-round team score of the tournament at 16-under-par. The total team score (833) is the second-lowest tournament total in program history, and marks the Jaguars third consecutive top-5 finish to open the year.


TOURNAMENT INFORMATION
Event (host): Trinity Forest Invitational (SMU)
Dates: Oct. 5-7 (Sunday-Tuesday)
Course: Trinity Forest Golf Club (par 72, 7,617 yds)


TEAM SCORES
T1. Southern California 832 (-32), T1. Rice 832 (-32), 3. South Alabama 833 (-31), 4. SMU 839 (-25), 5. Houston 845 (-19), 6. Baylor 855 (-9), 7. Furman 857 (-7), 8. North Texas 861 (-3), 9. East Tennessee State 865 (+1), 10. UTRGV 866 (+2), T11. Sam Houston 871 (+7), T11. Abilene Christian 871 (+7), 13. Louisiana 874 (+10) 14. SMU (B) 879 (+15), 15. Cal Poly 882 (+18), 16. UTSA 887 (+23).


INDIVIDUAL LEADERS
T1. Lukas Boandi, Rice 66-66-69 201, T1. Hudson Weibel, Houston 70-67-64 201, T3. Malan Potgieter, Louisiana 70-62-71 203, T3. Jaden Dumdumaya, USC 71-69-63 203, 5. William Sides, SMU 67-67-72 206, T6. Tim Kretschmann, USA 69-68-70 207, T6. Josh Hill, USA 69-66-72 207, T6. Hugo Thyr, USA 70-67-70 207, T6. Harris Barth, Furman 71-68-68 207, T10. Clark Akers, Furman 64-71-73 208, T10. Alex Huang, UNT 69-68-71 208.


SOUTH ALABAMA SCORES
T6. Tim Kretschman 69-68-70 (-9), T6. Josh Hill 69-66-72 (-9), T6. Hugo Thyr 70-67-70 (-9), T18. Samir Davidov 73-71-68 (-4), T46. Filip Svendsen 73-74-73 (+4).


TEE SHOTS

• Hugo Thyr posted his eighth top-10 finish in his Jaguar career, and tied for second place in total birdies made at 19.
• 7 of Josh Hill's 9 rounds on the season have been in the 60's.
• Samir Davidov carded a season-low 68 in the final round.
• Tim Kretschmann played the last four holes in the final round at 5-under-par. The sophomore went birdie, eagle, birdie, birdie in that stretch.
• South Alabama played the par-5's at 30-under-par in the tournament for a 4.50 scoring average, which led the tournament.
• The Jaguars also placed second in the tournament in total birdies (69) and eagles (3) made.
• Three Jaguar individuals placed inside the top-10 (Kretschmann, Hill, Thyr).

QUOTED
Head Coach Ben Hannan
"Great effort this week from the guys. We played well from the start and competed to the end. We got contributions from everyone and again showed the depth of this team.  

This was a golf course where you could get impatience and press resulting in forced errors. This is something we've been focusing on and the guys did a solid job with it  throughout the tournament.  Will now turn our attention toward Steelwood and get back to it when we get home."


UP NEXT
The Jaguars will stay home to host the Steelwood Collegiate on October 25-26 in Loxley, Ala.


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