ASU Wins Team Title

Sunday, April 18, 2010 - 15:13

Augusta State University maintained the comfortable lead it had going into the final round of the Collegiate Championships and is the 2010 Collegiate Disc Golf National Team Champions.

ASU played good steady golf all day and was never in trouble of giving up shots. The national championship was capped off at the end by a massive drive by Jason Lynn on the 400'+ hole to within 35' of the basket, followed by a successful birdie putt by Patrick May on the very dangerous elevated basket.

Team Standings
	University	R1	R2	R3	R4	R5	R6	R7	Tot	Par
		Doubles		Singles (3-man total)				Dbls
1	Augusta State	40	49	161	142	188	147	56	783	-27
2	Oregon	44	46	158	145	189	158	58	798	-12
3	Western Illinois	38	44	156	152	194	156	60	800	-10
4	Mississippi State	43	43	168	149	194	159	58	814	4
5	Arkansas	39	46	171	155	199	155	60	825	15
6	Kansas State	40	47	175	160	195	162	57	836	26
7	Alabama Birmingham	42	41	171	149	208	168	60	839	29
8	UGA	43	51	168	150	209	161	65	847	37
9	Tennessee Tech	50	41	177	160	206	158	60	852	42
10	Clemson	49	41	179	161	204	164	58	856	46
11	Indian Hills	52	46	169	162	188	178	63	858	48
11	Cal State Monterey Bay	50	42	178	160	200	167	61	858	48
13	Alabama Huntsville	48	42	173	167	212	163	60	865	55
14	Penn State	50	46	182	158	215	170	60	881	71
15	Florida	42	55	180	171	207	163	65	883	73
16	Appalachian State	45	50	184	161	211	164	70	885	75
16	Georgia Tech	52	52	179	159	201	176	66	885	75
18	South Carolina	47	42	178	160	226	173	62	888	78
19	Georgia College & State	51	45	181	168	208	160	85	898	88
20	Indiana of Pennsylvania	47	45	179	168	223	172	67	901	91
21	Alabama	45	47	189	168	218	182	63	912	102
22	Life University	45	47	184	171	226	180	72	925	115
23	Georgia Southern	54	48	194	181	240	179	66	962	152
24	Georgia Military College	52	47	174	168	-	-	72	-	-

The real battle was for second place as the University of Oregon and Western Illinois University, who were tied going into the final round, went back and forth giving up and taking back the advantage all day. In the end it was the University of Oregon who hit a huge birdie putt on hole 17 to go up by two throws with only the dangerous OB laden hole 18 left to play. U of O made a played safe on the hole taking a 3 and sealing second place. The eight players with the top individual singles scores on the week were named first team All-Americans while ninth through sixteenth were named second team All-Americans. Western Illinois University was crowned the National Collegiate doubles champions based upon their team total best in the three doubles rounds during the tournament. The University of Oregon won the first flight championship, which was held on a separate course on the Hippodrome property and comprised of players not competing on the first team in the main event.

1stteam

2010 Collegiate Disc Golf Championship All-America Team

The Collegiate Championship has come a long way in it's first four years going from six teams in 2007 to twenty four teams in this years event. Pete May expects the field to increase evey year forward as the NCDGU gains momentum and people become more aware of the Collegiate Championships. For information on how to enter a team in the 2011 Collegiate National Championship, visit http://ncdgu.com/.

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MEDIA COVERAGE:

Augusta Chronicle Article

Augusta Chronicle Article 2

Augusta Chronicle Article 3

WJBF Television News

WRDW Television News (with video clip)

Collegiate Disc Golf Championships