Mastodon MG Will Go Into Final Day of #HLGolf Championship With One-Shot Lead

Monday, April 24

Howey-in-the-Hills, Fla.

All Day

Purdue Fort Wayne

Horizon League Championship

Kasey Lilly

Mastodon MG Will Go Into Final Day of #HLGolf Championship With One-Shot Lead

4/24/2023 3:24:00 PM | Men's Golf

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HOWEY-IN-THE-HILLS, Fla. - The Purdue Fort Wayne men's golf team will carry a one-shot lead into the final round of the Horizon League Golf Championship. The Mastodons shot 290 for the second day in a row for a two-day total of 580 after Monday's round (April 24).

Kasey Lilly's 69-72-141 puts him in sole possession of first and a two-stroke lead with 18 holes to play. There are three players that shot 143 through the first two rounds: Wright State's Tyler Goecke and Mikkel Mathiesen and Oakland's Colin Sikkenga. Lilly's second round started about as well as one can ask for with an eagle on the first hole. He then rattled off six pars and a birdie before bogeying his ninth. He was 2-under on the back nine. He quickly reset on the front with a birdie on hole one, then had five pars in his next six holes. He finished the day even, one of three Mastodons to do so.

Hunter Mefford moved up one shot on the leaderboard on Monday, also turning in an even 72. His 73-72-145 puts him in fifth place with 18 to play. Mefford was bogey-free for his first 10 holes, which included bookended birdies on holes 10 and one. After a bogey on two, he parred three more then birdied six.

Nick Holder and Jadden Ousley are tied for seventh through 36 holes, both at 147. Holder shot 73-74-147 and was 2-under on the back nine on Monday. After a bogey on 12, he had a six-hole stretch without a bogey. This included three pars and three birdies, which came on 14, 16 and 17. On the front, Holder had four pars in a row from four to seven. Ousley is at 75-72-147 after his even second round. He started his day with a 3-under 10-hole sequence of birdie, par, par, par, birdie, birdie, bogey, birdie, bogey, birdie. He had three more pars before a stretch of three bogeys brought him back to even.

Burke Pitz rounded out the lineup with an 81-79-160. He started the day with eight pars in a row. After a bogey on 18 and a birdie to start the front, he had five more pars to finish his round.

Lilly is looking to become the second Mastodon in program history, and first since Zach Schroeder in 2018, to win a league championship. In his last two appearances at the Horizon League Championship, Lilly finished runner-up and 13th. As a team, the Mastodons are seeking their first league championship.

The Mastodons will tee off in the third and final round of the Horizon League Championship starting at 8:20 a.m. on Tuesday (April 25).

~ Feel the Rumble ~