BATTLE CREEK, Mich.—The Trine men's golf team finished in a tie for fourth place at the Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association Fall Final on Saturday afternoon at the Battle Creek Country Club. Freshman Grant Brettnacher earned second-team All-MIAA honors.
Trine golfers knocked 12 strokes off their Friday scores to finish with 632, tying with Albion. Hope College took the top spot shooting 593. Calvin College placed second at 599, and Kalamazoo College shot 613.
Brettnacher capped off the fall conference season with the first All-MIAA honors of his career. The freshman won individual medalist honors twice in MIAA Jamboree rounds. He finished ninth in the conference in individual scoring.
Today's performance locked up a fourth-place finish in the MIAA for the Thunder this fall. Trine advances to the MIAA National Qualifier in the spring, where the team will compete for a chance to earn an automatic-qualifying bid to the NCAA Division III National Championships. The winner of the four-team, three-round Qualifier receives the AQ bid.
Freshman Grant McKay (Las Vegas, Nev./Coronado) was the top individual finisher for Trine tying for 14th. McKay shot 76 on Saturday to combine for 156 for the weekend. Brettnacher (Brookton, Ind./Harrison) tied for 19th shaving four strokes off his Friday score to total 158. Joe LeSueur (Northfield Center, Ohio/Trinity) took 23rd with 163 shots. Grant Konkle III (Jackson, Mich./Lumen Chrisi) tied for 26th, while Nick Knowlton (Bridgman, Mich./Bridgman) tied for 34th.
Calvin's Ben Van Scoyk won the tournament shooting one under on Saturday for a total of 144. Hope Andrew Goble was one shot behind him at 145.
The Thunder will wrap up its fall season on Monday at the Lourdes Invitational.
All-MIAA First Team
Nick Ludka, Kalamazoo College
Ben Van Scoyk, Calvin
David Smith, Kalamazoo College
John Van Noord, Calvin
Winton Munch, Hope
Josh Gibson, Hope (MVP)
All-MIAA Second Team
Sam Kuiper, Calvin
Alec Genter, Alma
Andrew Skibski, Adrian
Grant Brettnacher, Trine
Phil Ritchie, Kalamazoo College
Andrew Goble, Hope
Sportsmanship Award:
Connor Maddalena, Albion
