Symons Leads Red Raiders to a Seventh-Place Finish

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John A. Burns Intercollegiate

<b>Photo Provided by PictureMann Photos/L.Scott Mann:</b> Freshman Tyler Symons led the Red Raiders with his first career top-10 finish.

Symons Leads Red Raiders to a Seventh-Place Finish

February 25, 2005 | Men's Golf

Feb. 25, 2005

LUBBOCK, Texas - The Texas Tech men's golf team finished the John A. Burns Intercollegiate in seventh after a 284 third-round performance today in Wahiawa, Hawaii. Freshman Tyler Symons led the Red Raiders with a career-best tie for ninth-place with a three-round score of 207, nine-under-par.

No. 6 New Mexico held onto the lead to take away the team title with a three-day total of 833. No. 14 UNLV (835) pulled back into second after finishing the second round in third. Rounding out the top five are No. 27 Arizona (838-third), BYU (839-fourth) and No. 9 Auburn (841-fifth).

Leading the individual field was UNLV's Ryan Moore (196), followed by BYU's Greg Machtaler and New Mexico's Spencer Levin and San Jose State's Justin Madison all tied for second with a tournament score of 203.

Tech's top five brought the Red Raiders its lowest tournament score of the season of an 844, while tying the school record for the lowest 54-hole score set in 2001 at the Mid-Pines Intercollegiate. Symons' performance also earned the freshman his place in the Tech record books tying for fourth with his 207 on Tech's all-time lowest individual 54-hole score.

Following Symons' (70-68-69-207) career-best performance on was sophomore Oscar Floren and junior Andrew Dresser tied for 23rd. Floren (69-71-72-212) finished the tournament four-under-par, while Dresser (74-70-68-212) pulled within the top 25 with his third round 68.

Rounding out the Red Raider competitors was junior Nicolas Allain (72-71-75-218) tied for 58th, followed by senior Shaun Melville (69-77-79-225) who finished tied for 90th.

The Red Raiders will be back in action at the Louisiana Classics March 7-8.

Results Below:

7       Texas Tech     280-280-284-844T9      Tyler Symons      70-68-69-207T23     Oscar Floren      69-71-72-212T23     Andrew Dresser    74-70-68-212T58     Nicolas Allain    72-71-75-218T90     Shaun Melville    69-77-79-225


Team Leaderboard
John Burns IntercollegiateLeilehua Golf Course Wahiawa, HIPar: 72Yardage: 6917
Fin.     School                      Scores1       New Mexico, U. of               274 275 284 8332       UNLV                            274 282 279 8353       Arizona, U. of                  278 275 285 8384       Brigham Young Univ.             286 271 282 8395       Auburn University               283 281 277 8416       San Diego State U.              280 280 283 8437       Texas Tech Univ.                280 280 284 844 8       Texas A&M University            292 278 278 8489       SMU                             286 276 292 85410      Denver, U. of                   292 280 285 85711      UC-Santa Barbara                294 288 283 86512      Colorado State Univ.            281 289 297 86713      Hawaii, Univ. of                288 287 294 869        San Jose State Univ.            291 289 289 86915      Utah, Univ. of                  293 290 292 87516      Nevada, Univ. of                297 285 294 87617      Pacific, U. of the              293 292 297 88218      Hawaii-Hilo, U. of              297 288 298 88319      Texas El Paso, U. of            297 292 299 888        Long Beach State                304 289 295 88821      Hawaii B                        303 293 304 90022      San Francisco, U. of            304 300 301 905