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Princeton University
Ivy League Championship
Tigers Repeat as Ivy Men's Golf Champions
April 17, 2005 | Men's Golf
April 17, 2005
Complete Results
Hamburg, N.J. - The Princeton men's golf team shot a final round 279 to stay in front of the field and claim its second consecutive Ivy League Championship Sunday afternoon at the Ballyowen Golf Club in Hamburg, N.J. Creighton Page was the only player in the field under par as he finished first and claimed the individual championship.
Princeton shot rounds of 293, 290 and 279 to finish at 862. The Tigers were the only team to be under par at -2. Princeton was 31 strokes ahead of second-place Cornell. Penn, Columbia and Brown completed the top 10.
Page finished at 210 (71-71-68) to win his first Ivy Championship. He was six strokes ahead of a tie for second-place between Penn's Sean Barrett and teammate Jason Gerken (76-73-67-216). Gerken was the defending champion of the event.
John Sawin tied for fourth in the event at two-over par. He shot rounds of 73-68-77 to finish at 218. Jesse Dixon made it four Tigers in the top 10. He was +8 after rounds of 74, 79 and 71. Brent Herlihy was the final member of the Tigers scoring fivesome. He tied for 16th with a 226 (75-78-73).
The title was Princeton's fifth in a six-year span and its 18th in the 31-year history of the Ivy League Championship and Princeton's 22nd league title. The next highest total is eight by Yale. Page became the ninth player in Tiger history to win a league title. Princeton won the title in a record-breaking performance. The Tigers two-under 862 was 20 strokes better than the previous tournament low and Princeton also set the team single-round low at nine-under par. Page's six-under 210 was the lowest score in an Ivy Championship event and Gerken's five-under 67 in the third round was the lowest round in Ivy Championship history.
Page was one of three Tigers named to the All-Ivy team, which is comprised of the top seven finishers. The members were Page, Penn's Sean Barrett, Gerken, Columbia's Chris Condello, Sawin, Columbia's Darren Bolton and Cornell's Robbie Fritz. Page, Gerken and Sawin each received All-Ivy status for the second time's in their careers. That brings the total of Princeton golfers to earn all-Ivy honors to 61, including 12 medalists.