After some early struggles in the first two rounds of the Schenkel E-Z-Go Invitational Saturday at the Forest Heights Country Club, ETSU put together a strong showing on Sunday to climb from 13th to 9th with a team score of 9-over-par 873.
The Bucs finished ahead of highly ranked teams like Augusta State, in-state rival Tennessee and fellow Southern Conference member Georgia Southern, in an event that featured four top 10 teams. The Bucs were bolstered Sunday by a team-best, 6-under-par 66 by sophomore Chase Baldwin, a 2-under 70 from senior James Johnson and a 1-under 71 by sophomore Cennydd Mills.
Fifth-ranked Wake Forest won the team championship, holding off No. 1-ranked Clemson by three strokes thanks to a team score of 20-under-par 844. Individually, Wake’s Brent Wanner won by three strokes (75-67-65-207 -9), while Clemson’s Jack Ferguson and D.J. Trahan, Wake Forest’s Bill Hass and Georgia’s Kevin Kisner all finished tied in second with scores of 6-under 210.

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