Mercer University
All State Streamsong Invitational
Bears Set Scoring Mark At Streamsong
9/13/2022 10:07:00 PM | Men's Golf
Local Boy Makes Good In Leading Mercer
Bowling Green, Fla.--The Mercer Bears' men's golf set the bar very high---actually very low—in its first tournament of the fall 2022 season. The Bears were a team 39 shots below par, a new school scoring mark, at the Allstate Invitational at Streamsong in Bowling Green, Florida Sept. 12-13.
Sophomore Trey Mixon was low player for Mercer. He tied for third, which is his first career top five finish. Mixon was 15-under par at 201, just five shots out of first place. Freshman Ben James of the Virginia Cavaliers took medalist honors carding 196, 20 shots under par.
Mixon is from Macon, Georgia, and attended high school at First Presbyterian Day School, which is only about eight miles from the Mercer campus. He finished two strokes ahead of teammate Tobias Jonsson who tied for sixth place at 203 (13-under par).
They helped lead the Bears to a fourth-place finish in the team standings out of 12 teams. Virginia won the team title at 808. Lipscomb was runner up at 815, followed by Jacksonville at third at 823, just two shots better than the Bears' 825.
Reece Moore, in his first meet for the Bears, carded 211; Jonathan Parker 212; and Gustav Sjoeberg 216. All of the Bears were even par or better for the event held on the Streamsong Blue Course. Coach Jason Payne was extremely pleased with the team's consistency. Of the 15 rounds played, the Bears had only one round over par, and that was just a one-over 73.
The Bears will have some time to relish their new scoring mark and prepare to better it in their next challenge. Mercer will play in the Carolina Cup Oct.9-11.
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