MSU Fourth-Jerry Price 12th at OVC Golf Championship

Saturday, April 21

Paducah, Ky. (CC of Paducah)

Murray State

OVC Championship

4/24/2007 5:00:00 AM | Men's Golf

The Murray State Racers turned in a solid fourth place finish Tuesday at the O'Reilly's Ohio Valley Conference Men's Golf Championship at the CC of Paducah, Ky. when they fired a final round 304 to finish with a 54-hole total of 924.

The Racers started the season ending tournament Sunday with a 313 and improved with a 306 in Monday's second round.

MSU junior Jerry Price showed that he belongs in the upper tier of players in the OVC with a 12^th place finish in the field of 50 competitors. His final round 3-over 75 started with seven straight pars, before he double-bogeyed the 8^th hole. Price made birdie at the 16^th, but had bogeys at the 11^th and 18^th holes. He had rounds of 79-74 in the first two days of competition and finished with a 12-over 228.

Senior Kyle Landrum finished 20^th in his final event as a MSU player with rounds of 78-76-79=223, while sophomore Mitchell Moore finished 25^th with scores of 77-82-76=235. Junior Mark Brant placed 30^th after carding scores of 83-80-74=237 and senior Michael Craft finished 32^nd with scores of 79-77-82=238.

Jacksonville State was the run-away champion with scores of 299-298-287=884 to win the OVC event by 22 shots over runner-up Eastern Kentucky (906). Austin Peay (909), Murray State (924), Samford (926), Eastern Illinois (929) and Morehead State (931) rounded out the top seven. UT-Martin (949) fired a 298 in the final round to get out of last place ahead of Tennessee State (969).

Jacksonville State's Daniel Willett won OVC medalist honors with rounds of 73-74-67=214. Teammates Julian Colmenares, Bryan Rozier and Tennessee Tech's Scott Stallings finished tied for second at 220.