WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - Senior
CJ van Wyk notched his second-straight top-10 finish and senior
Jamie Butler fired a career-low three-under par 68 on Sunday to lead the Toledo men's golf team at Purdue's Boilermaker Invitational. The Rockets finished ninth in the team standings with a two-over par 854 at the par-71, 7,275-yard Ackerman-Allen course.
Van Wyk carded a one-over par 72 today and finished with a three-under par 210. He tied for the team lead with junior
Mads Jensen in the tournament with 12 birdies.
Butler tied for 23
rd place with an even-par 213. After playing his first 11 holes at one-over par, Butler eagled the par-five, 605-yard No. 2 hole and played the remainder of his round at two-under par.
No. 50 Marquette won the tournament title with a 16-under par 836, two shots in front of the host No. 37-ranked Boilermakers and six ahead of No. 11 Illinois and Michigan State. Michigan's Hunter Thomson edged the Spartans' Caleb Bond for medalist honors with a 10-under par 203.
In the individual tournament at Purdue's par-72, 7,465-yard Kampen Golf Course, sophomore
Marijn Hoogeveen tied for 10
th place at 10-over par 226 (78-72-76) and junior
Bence Kotel tied for 24
th place at 15-over par 231 (78-73-80).
The Rockets will next head to Grove City, Ohio to compete in the Mid-American Conference Championships on Sunday-Tuesday, April 27-29.
TEAM STANDINGS
1. Marquette 278-275-283=836 (-16); 2. Purdue 281-268-289=838 (-14); T3. Illinois 282-281-279=842 (-10); T3. Michigan State 280-277-285=842 (-10); T5. Notre Dame 285-272-286=843 (-9); T5. Indiana 285-273-285=843 (-9); 7. Michigan 282-274-288=844 (-8); 8. Ball State 285-280-284=849 (-3);
9. TOLEDO 288-277-289=854 (+2); 10. Miami 280-287-290=857 (+5); 11. Northern Illinois 287-287-287=861 (+9); 12. Iowa 284-284-295=863 (+11); 13. South Dakota 296-284-288=868 (+16); 14. Butler 286-288-296=870 (+18); 15. Georgetown 293-289-293=875 (+23); 16. South Dakota State 299-286-291=876 (+24); 17. DePaul 303-295-283=881 (+29); 18. Bowling Green 306-292-300=898 (+46)
TOP FIVE INDIVIDUALS
1. Hunter Thomson (UM) 70-66-67=203 (-10); 2. Caleb Bond (MSU) 67-68-69=204 (-9); T3. Jackson Buchanan (Illinois) 71-66-68=205 (-8); T3. Patrick Adler (Marquette) 67-68-70=205 (-8); T5. Cole Starnes (Indiana) 72-64-72=208 (-5); T5. Sam Easterbook (Purdue) 69-66-73=208 (-5)
TOLEDO INDIVIDUALS
T9.
CJ van Wyk 71-67-72=210 (-3); T23.
Jamie Butler 74-71-68=213 (E); T43.
Mads Jensen 73-67-76=216 (+3); T47.
Julius Lange 71-73-73=217 (+4); T66. Bence Bertenyi 73-72-77=222 (+9)