HU opens up season at Lou Collins Memorial Classic

Battle Creek, Mich. - The Forester men's golf team opened up their season at the Lou Collins Memorial Tournament hosted by the University of Olivet over the weekend. Of the ten teams competing at Bedford Valley Country Club, HU finished seventh with a 630 (314-316).

THE ESSENTIALS
Location: Bedford Valley CC, Battle Creek, Mich.
Date: August 30-31, 2024
Par: 72
Number of golfers: 64

HU INDIVIDUAL SCORES
15th - Luke VanDeventer – 81, 74 (155)
22nd – Brenner Lampton – 78, 79 (157)
T31st – Trey Spring – 77, 82 (159)
T31st – Cooper Trigg – 78, 81 (159)
63rd – Austin Batey – 95, 95 (190)

TEAM RESULTS
Trine topped the leaderboard with a 603 followed by Washington & Jefferson (605), Westminster (616), Albion (617), Kalamazoo (623), Adrian (628), HU (630), Olivet A (635), Bluffton (649) and Olivet B (677).

LOOKING FORWARD
Next up for the Foresters is the Players Club Invitational September 9-10 at The Players Club in Yorktown, Ind.

OTHER NOTABLES
Patrick Davis is in his first season as the head coach of the men's program while Rick Sholund returns to HU as an assistant having previously spent 6.5 years as the head coach.

The Huntington University Foresters compete in 18 intercollegiate sports for men and women. In the past decade, Huntington has produced 160 NAIA All-America honors and 567 All-America Scholar Athlete honors. Huntington University is a comprehensive Christian college of the liberal arts offering graduate and undergraduate programs in more than 70 academic concentrations. U.S. News & World Report ranks Huntington among the best colleges in the Midwest.