Princeton University Athletics
Princeton University
Rutherford Intercollegiate
Men's Golf Eighth at Rutherford Intercollegiate
April 30, 2005 | Men's Golf
April 30, 2005
Complete Results
University Park, Pa. - The Princeton men's golf team placed eighth in a field of 15 teams at the Rutherford Intercollegiate Saturday afternoon at the Penn State Blue Golf Course. Princeton shot a 289 in Saturday's third and final round to finish the tournament at 876.
The hosts from Penn State (287-279-277--843) won the tournament running away with an 18-stroke win over second-place Maryland. Towson, Ohio and Virginia Commonwealth completed the top five. Rutgers and Akrom tied for sixth, preceding the Tigers who shot an 876 (296-291-289).
Individually, Jason Gerken recorded Princeton's best finish at fifth overall. Gerken shot rounds of 69, 73 and 70 to finish at 212, 12 strokes behind John Eades of Maryland, the tournament's winner.
Jesse Dixon tied for 23rd overall (75-71-73) with a 219 and John Sawin's 221 (76-76-69) tied him for 32nd. Creighton Page, who won the Ivy League Championship two weekends ao tied for 47th with a 224 (76-71-77) and Brent Herlihy was 63rd (76-77-77) with a 230.