WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – Senior
Bence Kotel shot even par or better for a third-consecutive tournament and tied for eighth place on Tuesday at the Purdue Fall Invitational. Kotel's performance helped Toledo to an eighth-place finish with a team score of 879 at the par-72, 7,465-yard Kampen-Cosler Golf Course.
The Rockets shot their best round of the tournament with a one-under par 287 thanks to Kotel's second three-under par 69 of the tournament. He finished tied for eighth individually with a two-under par 214 and tied for first place in the field in par-four scoring at four-under par.
Junior
Mason Deal carded UT's second-best round of the day with an even-par 72, while senior
Mads Jensen and junior
Solomon Petrie each shot a one-over par 73. Petrie tied for 13
th place with an even-par 216.
Purdue captured the tournament title at 25-under par, 19 strokes ahead of second-place Butler. Southern Illinois' Anthony De Schutter earned medalist honors at six-under par.
Toledo will conclude its fall season next week at Dayton's Flyer Invitational in Kettering, Ohio on Monday-Tuesday, Oct. 20-21.
TEAM STANDINGS
1. Purdue 282-276-281=839 (-25); 2. Butler 286-292-280=858 (-6); 3. Oakland 288-289-290=867 (+3); 4. Illinois State 296-285-289=870 (+6); 5. Nebraska 292-288-292=872 (+8); 6. Northern Illinois 300-293-282=875 (+11); 7. Southern Illinois 292-285-300=877 (+13);
8. TOLEDO 296-296-287=879 (+15); 9. Western Kentucky 298-297-285=880 (+16); 10. Ball State 297-296-293=886 (+22); 11. Loyola (Chicago) 299-296-297=892 (+28); 12. Ohio 297-296-300=893 (+29); 13. South Dakota State 298-299-302=899 (+35); 14. Purdue Fort Wayne 298-302-306=906 (+42); 15. Valparaiso 317-300-297=914 (+50)
TOP FIVE PLAYERS
1. Anthony De Schutter (SIU) 73-67-70=210 (-6); 2. Will Harvey (Purdue) 70-71-70=211 (-5): T3. Sam Easterbrook (Purdue) 75-70-67=212 (-4); T3. Kentaro Nanayama (Purdue) 71-67-74=212 (-4); T5. TJ Bargar (ISU 73-68-72=213 (-3); T5. Devin Swoyer (NIU) 72-71-70=213 (-3); T5. Leo Zurovac (Butler) 72-71-70=213 (-3)
TOLEDO INDIVIDUALS
T8.
Bence Kotel 69-76-69=214 (-2); T13.
Solomon Petrie 73-70-73=216 (E); T46.
Mads Jensen 79-72-73=224 (+8); T72.
Mason Deal 75-87-72=234 (+18); T76.
Julius Lange 88-78-73=239 (+23)