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Blue Bears finishes fifth at PGA minority event

By Dennis Davidson

Published 11:41 pm Sunday, May 14, 2017

Staff report

PORT ST. LUCIE, Fla. — Livingstone finished in fifth place as the PGA Minority Collegiate Golf Championship  at the Wanamaker Course concluded on Sunday.

The Blue Bears had team scores of 322 on both Friday and Saturday, but came in with a 330 yesterday. Their three-round total of 974 was well back of fourth-place Virginia Union (945), but well ahead of sixth-place Fayetteville State (1002).

West Alabama won the Division II competition in a playoff with Lincoln after both finished at 927. Cal State-Dominguez Hills was third (937). Miles was seventh (1015) and Virginia State was eighth (1034).

Individually, Livingstone sophomore Philip Harrison, who had been in contention for medalist all weekend, slipped to fifth place on Sunday with a 7-over par 79. Harrison had a three-day total of 228, five strokes behind West Alabama’s Brannon O’Pry and Virginia Union’s Samuel Reid at 223. O’Pry won the individual title in a playoff.
Others scores for the Blue Bears on Sunday were: Harry Standberry (78), Stephen Washington (85), Lenorris Williams (88) and Telvin Walker (93).Bethune-Cookman won the Division I competition in the event with a three-round total of 875, 16 strokes ahead of Incarnate Word.

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