IOWA CITY, Iowa --- Central College fired a final-round 298 Saturday at Finkbine Golf Course to complete a wire-to-wire title run at the 2013 Iowa Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (IIAC) Men's Golf Championships. The title is the 31st in program history for the Dutch.
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Central placed its four medalist-eligible golfers in the top 13, including three in the top six, to finish with a 72-hole team total of 1215. Luther, with two golfers in the top eight, took second at 1243. Wartburg and Dubuque also placed two players in the top 10 with the Knights edging the Spartans, 1253-1256, for third place. Simpson (1265), Buena Vista (1288), Loras (1312) and Coe (1319) rounded out the team totals.
Luther's
Andrew Peter, who entered the final round with a 1-stroke lead, birdies two holes on each nine for matching 34s and a bogey-free 4-under 68. Peter finished with a 72-hole total of 293 to capture medalist and IIAC Men's Golfer of the Year honors by three strokes over Central's
Justin Livingston (296). Peter is the first Norse IIAC Men's Golf MVP since Scott Theriault in 2000.
Livingston, who posted his third career top-3 finish at the conference meet, matched Peter with four birdies, but did have a bogey on each side for a 2-under 70. Livingston took third a year ago and was runner-up in 2011.
Central teammate
Desmond Stoll finished third at 303, just ahead of Wartburg's
Carson Barron (304) and Dubuque's
Martin Odegard (305). Central's
David Watson, Dubuque's
Eric Wolfe and Luther's
Tobias Kohl all tied at 306 with Watson taking sixth with a birdie on the first playoff hole. Wolfe (par-par) needed one more hole to edge Kohl (par-bogey) for seventh. Coe's
Tyler Gunderson (310) took ninth and Wartburg's
Jeremy Carper (311) finished 10th. The top 10 individuals earned all-Iowa Conference honors. It was the third for Livingston, Odegard, Kohl and Wolfe and the second for Gunderson.
Iowa Conference Men's Golf Coach of the Year honors were shared by Central's
Chad Green and Simpson's
Jason Marvelli. Green led the Dutch to their fifth consecutive title and sixth in seven years. Marvelli is the first Simpson men's golf coach to be named IIAC Coach of the Year.
Along with the Iowa Conference title, the Dutch also earned the Iowa Conference's automatic berth in the 2013 NCAA Division III Men's Golf Championship to be held May 14-17 at Sandestin Resort in Destin, Fla.
