Mercer Men Finish Fifth at Ryman Hospitality Intercollegiate

Tuesday, April 11

Nashville, Tenn.

Mercer University

Ryman Hospitality Intercollegiate

Mercer Men Finish Fifth at Ryman Hospitality Intercollegiate

4/11/2017 8:30:00 PM | Men's Golf

Complete Results

By: Patrick T. Walsh

NASHVILLE, Tenn. – Kiko Rosete fired a 69 and moved up 24 spots to place 23^rd overall while the Bears finished fifth overall at the Ryman Hospitality Intercollegiate in Nashville Tuesday afternoon.

Rosete's 2-under-par round was the fourth-best scorecard of the day and was easily the best round of any Bear in the tournrament.

MERCER SCORECARD

5.	Mercer	302	300	297	+47	899
T-10.	Justin Connelly	70	73	78	+8	221
23.	Kiko Rosete	81	76	69	+13	226
24.	Brennan Bogdanovich	80	71	76	+14	227
T-37.	Hayes Rule (I)	74	77	81	+19	232
T-40.	Stanton Schorr	74	83	76	+20	233
T-46.	Jerry Ren	78	80	76	+21	234

MERCER ON THE TEAM LEADERBOARD
Entering the final round tied with the Thundering Herd, Mercer ended up edging Marshall by six strokes to claim fifth place. The Bears fell just one stroke shy of fourth place Western Kentucky (+46) and seven strokes behind Chattanooga (+40). No. 35 Lipscomb (+7) while No. 22 Ole Miss (+10) finished second.

MERCER ON THE INDIVIDUAL LEADERBOARD
Freshman Kiko Rosete had the strongest finish of any Bear with a 2-under-par 69 final round to place 23^rd overall at 13-over-par. That placed him one spot and one stroke ahead of Brennan Bogdanovich (24^th, +14). Justin Connelly was the top placing Bear as he tied for 10^th at 8-over-par 221.

COACH KAYDEN'S TAKE
"We had our best tournament of the spring leading into conference, which is encouraging. We still have some work to do and need to work on our consistency as far as our rounds go. Our third and fourth scores are still a little bit too high – we need to be counting lower scores than that. We will be competitive in these tournaments once we do that."

"I am encouraged but there is still some work to do before conference. We are moving in the right direction and showing some good signs."

UP NEXT
The Bears now set their sights on the postseason as Mercer will head to the Southern Conference Championship on April 23-25. The conference championship tournament will be played on Pinehurst No. 9 in Pinehurst, North Carolina.

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