Tigers Place Second At Tournament Town Championship Preview

GREENSBORO, NC - For the second straight year, the Wittenberg Tigers took the No. 2 position at the Tournament Town Championship Preview, which was played at the Grandover Resort and Conference Center, the site of the 2015 NCAA Division III Tournament.

A year after coming up eight strokes short in a 36-hole competition to Illinois Wesleyan, the sixth-ranked Tigers finished nine strokes behind No. 1-ranked Oglethorpe in a two-day, 54-hole competition. Wittenberg and Illinois Wesleyan, which is ranked No. 7 currently, each carded three-round totals of 882 to share runner-up honors.

The 18-team field included 11 teams who earned spots in the preseason top 25 poll distributed by the Golf Coaches Association of America. The teams played rounds on both the East and West courses at Grandover Resort, also the site of the 2014 NCAA Division III Tournament. Wittenberg finished fifth in last year's national tourney.

Senior Alex Andrews (Kirtland, Ohio/Gilmour Academy) continued to lead the Tigers, carding matching one-under-par rounds of 71 in the first two rounds on Sunday and finishing with a three-round total of 217 to place fifth in the 90-player field. He was followed by sophomore Sam Stilwell (Dominion, Va./Sterling), who placed 12th with a 221.

Junior Sam Geise (Springboro, Ohio/Springboro) and freshman Dylan Ahonen (Lancaster, Ohio/Lancaster) were next for the Tigers with matchings scores of 225, good for a tie for 23rd place. Senior John Chaney (Gates Mills, Ohio/Gilmour Academy) rounded out the Tigers in the field with a 229, which earned him a tie for 40th.

Written By: Ryan Maurer