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Iowa Conference Men’s Golf April 18, 2006 Contact: Will Wolper, Director of Information 222 Third Street SE, Suite 423 Cedar Rapids, IA 52401 Phone - (319) 366-4975 ** Fax - (319) 366-4911 e-mail - [email protected] This Week’s Schedule 2006 IIAC Men’s Golf Championship Apr. 17-18 Loras @ Gustavus Adolphus Invitational Luther @ Gustavus Adolphus Invitational April 21-22 at Finkbine GC Iowa City Apr. 18 Coe @ St. Francis Invitational April 28-29 at Meadows GC Apr. 21-22 Asbury Iowa Conference Championship Rounds 1-2, 11 am/9 am at Finkbine GC, Iowa City, Iowa Hosted by Univ. of Dubuque Championship preview begins on page 2 of this release Iowa Conference Individual Low Rounds Iowa Conference Team Low Rounds Golfer, School Score Tournament (date) School Score Tournament (date) Ben Hanson, Luther 67 Wartburg Invite (4/8) Wartburg 287 Wartburg Invite (4/8) Ben Hanson, Luther 67 Gustavus Adolphus Invite (4/17) Luther 289 Wartburg Invite (4/8) Ryan Kinseth, Wartburg 68 Wartburg Invite (4/8) Buena Vista 293 Wartburg Invite (4/8) Kevin Ault, Wartburg 68 BVU Spring Invite (4/14) Central 294 Duhawk Spring Invite (4/1) Derek Deminsky, Central 69 Dutch Desert Shootout (3/15) Central 297 Dutch Desert Shootout (3/15) Derek Deminsky, Central 71 Duhawk Spring Invite (4/1) Wartburg 297 BVU Spring Invite (4/14) Kevin Ault, Wartburg 71 Wartburg Invite (4/8) Central 298 Wartburg Invite (4/8) Scott Burns, Wartburg 71 Wartburg Invite (4/8) Central 298 BVU Spring Invite (4/14) Alvaro DeCosio, Central 72 Wartburg Invite (4/8) Wartburg 299 Duhawk Spring Invite (4/1) Brett Meyer, Central 73 Duhawk Spring Invite (4/1) Simpson 302 Wartburg Invite (4/8) Kevin Ault, Wartburg 73 Duhawk Spring Invite (4/1) Central 303 Central Dutch Classic (3/25) Andrew Miller, Wartburg 73 Duhawk Spring Invite (4/1) Loras 304 Wartburg Invite (4/8) Andy Peterson, Central 73 Wartburg Invite (4/7) Luther 304 Gustavus Adolphus Invite (4/17) Wally Byrne, Buena Vista 73 Wartburg Invite (4/8) Simpson 305 BVU Spring Invite (4/14) Chris Buhr, Coe 73 Wartburg Invite (4/8) Coe 308 Wartburg Invite (4/8) Blake Halvorsen, Wartburg 73 Wartburg Invite (4/8) Buena Vista 308 BVU Spring Invite (4/14) Andy Hoegh, Luther 73 Wartburg Invite (4/8) Josh Reed, Buena Vista 73 Wartburg Invite (4/8) Kent Schroeder, Buena Vista 73 Wartburg Invite (4/8) Andy Peterson, Central 73 BVU Spring Invite (4/14) Iowa Conference Players of the Week Week Week Ending Player, School Ending Player, School Mar. 19 Derek Deminsky, Central Apr. 9 Ben Hanson, Luther Mar. 26 Alvaro DeCosio, Central Apr. 16 Kevin Ault, Wartburg Apr. 2 Derek Deminsky, Central IOWA CONFERENCE MEN’S GOLF CHAMPIONSHIP PREVIEW CEDAR RAPIDS, IOWA . The 2006 Iowa Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (IIAC) men’s golf Championship begins this weekend, April 21-22, with the first 36-holes of the 72-hole Championship. This weekend’s rounds will be played at Finkbine Golf Course in Iowa City, Iowa. The final 36-holes will be played April 28-29, at Meadows Golf Club in Asbury, Iowa. Friday rounds begin at 11:00 a.m. and Saturday rounds begin at 9:00 a.m. University of Dubuque is the host of the 2006 men’s golf Championship. On the first day of the Championship, Loras College, as the defending Conference Champion is seeded #1, and its players will play with golfers from the second and third seeded teams. Teams are seeded based on the averages from its four best 18-hole team scores during the spring. Players from the fourth, fifth and sixth seeded teams play together as do players from the seventh, eighth and ninth seeded teams. Pairings for rounds two and three will be based on the team score position following the previous round. The final round pairings will be determined by individual scores after round three. Each school may enter five players for each round with the four best performances each day used to determine the team score. Substitutions are not permitted from Friday to Saturday, however one player who competed the first weekend may be substituted for the second weekend. About the 2006 Season: Central enters the 2006 Championship having finished in the top-three of all five tournaments it played this spring including first at the Dutch Desert Shootout (of seven schools) and the Loras Duhawk Spring Invitational (of 20 schools). The Dutch have a team stroke average of 301.57 this spring, led by four sub-300 rounds. Wartburg has three top-five finishes in as many tournaments including a tie for second at the Duhawk Spring Invitational. The Knights’ stroke average of 307.20, which includes three sub-300 rounds and a Conference-low round of 287, is second in the Conference. Buena Vista enters the Championship with a 314.83 stroke average, third in the Conference and the Beavers have three top-10 and four top-15 finishes in four tournaments this spring including a third-place tie at the Wartburg Invitational. Luther is fourth in the IIAC with a 315.30 stroke average including the Conference’s second-best round of the spring, a 289 in the second round of the Wartburg Invitational. Simpson has four top-10 finishes in five tournaments including a first-place finish in its own Invitational. The Storm’s 319.57 stroke average is fifth-best in the Conference. Luther’s Ben Hanson and Wartburg’s Kevin Ault have the only individual sub-75 stroke averages at 74.57 and 74.8, respectively, and have three of the five sub-70 rounds in the Conference this spring. Hanson shot the Conference-low round of 67 in the second round of the Wartburg Invitational and matched in the first round of the Gustavus Adolphus Invitational. Ault carded a 68 in the first round of the Buena Vista Invitational and also has a 71 to his credit this spring (in the par-70 second round of Wartburg Invitational). Wartburg’s Ryan Kinseth (68 in the second round of the Wartburg Invitational) and Central’s Derek Deminsky (69 at the Dutch Desert Shootout) have the other rounds in the 60s. Deminsky joins Hanson as the only Conference golfers with two sub- par rounds this spring, adding a 71 at the Duhawk Spring Invitational and is tied with teammate Andrew Petersen for the third- best overall stroke average (75.71). Kinseth’s 76.60 stroke average is sixth-best. Central has half of the Conference’s top-10 individual stroke averages. Joining Deminsky and Peterson in the top-10 are Alvaro DeCosio (76.43), Cole Reiman (76.71) and Brett Meyer (77.14). Buena Vista’s Josh Reed and Coe’s Nolan Schmelzer each have a 78.33 stroke average in six and nine rounds, respectively. Deminsky, Hanson and Simpson’s Eric Adams have Medalist honors to their credit this year. Deminsky finished first of 39 golfers at the Dutch Desert Shootout. Hanson won the 94-golfer Wartburg Invitational (76-67—143). Adams won the 74-golfer Simpson Invitational (72). 2005 Championship Recap: Loras won its fourth Iowa Conference men’s golf Championship and first since 1954, behind Medalist Pete Weber. Both Loras (1206) and Weber (286) won by 11 strokes. Wartburg finished second in the team race (1217) followed by Central (1220) and Luther (1233). Weber became the first Loras golfer to win an individual Conference title since 1998 with rounds of 71-69-73-73, including the low round in each of the final three rounds. Simpson’s Mike Martin, the 2003 Medalist, finished second, one stroke ahead of Central’s Nick Grossman (297-298). Top Returning Individuals: Six players totaling nine All-Conference honors (top-10 Conference finishers) return to their teams’ line-up this year including four from last year. Ten of the 2005 top-20 are back. Ault is looking to become a four-time All- Conference performer. Last year, he finished sixth with a 304 to go along with Medalist honors in 2004 and a seventh-place finish in 2003. Loras’ Adam Luehmann, who finished fifth last year after beating Ault in a playoff, is also a multi-time All-Conference performer having finished fifth in 2003 as well. Meyer finished ninth last year (306) and Buena Vista’s Alex Downing won a playoff to finish 10th (307). Hanson, who lost the playoff to Downing, finished eighth in 2004 and Wartburg’s Andrew Miller, who tied for 12th last year (309) finished fourth in 2004. Other top-20 finishers from 2005 returning this year include Loras’ Joe Leibfried (t-20th, 316), Luther’s Andy Hoegh (t-14th, 210), and Wartburg’s Blake Halvorsen (t-14th, 310) and Kinseth (t-17th, 313). Probable lineups: Probable line-ups for the Conference Championship are listed below. Teams with more than five golfers listed are still holding competition to determine its Championship line-ups. Bolded players have previously competed in the Iowa Conference Championship Buena Vista Wally Byrne, Steve Campbell, Alex Downing, Josh Reed, Kent Schroeder, Derek Swanson Central Alvaro DeCosio, Derek Deminsky, Brett Meyer, Andy Petersen, Cole Reiman Coe Chris Buhr, Brad Comm, Mike Jump, Jason Schmelzer, Nolan Schmelzer Cornell Keegan Buchholz, Daniel Engstrom, Tyler Fick, Griffin LaDew, Phil Mogen, Nate Olafsen, Max Parsons, Adam Poslosky, Dylan Schultz, Zach Summers, Jeff Winter Dubuque Jacob Gothard, Brian Johannsen, Andrew McDowell, Cory Rubner, D.J. Topping Loras Jason Burkle, Jeff Dingman, John Kelly, Joe Leibfried, Adam Luehmann Luther Adam Darula, Ben Hanson, Andy Hoegh, Tom Lantzy, Nick Sikkink, Paul Soener, Brad Stuart, Ed Witkowski Simpson Eric Adams, David Combs, Austin Jennings, Nate Ohnemus, Cody Scharf Wartburg Kevin Ault, Jared Fairbanks, Blake Halvorsen, Ryan Kinseth, Andrew Miller Previous IIAC men’s golf Championship results can be found at: http://www.iowaconference.com/men/golf/tournaments.htm.