Full results
CHESTERTON, Ind.-- North Dakota finished in a tie for 10th in the 15-team Crusader Challenge hosted by Valparaiso University Monday and Tuesday at Sand Creek Country Club. Junior
Jackson Davis was the low-scoring Fighting Hawk, going 69-73-74 to place 14th individually.
Tuesday saw senior
Patrick Traynor post an ever-par round of 72 as the Fighting Hawks tallied a 298 team score to finish in a three-way tie for 10th with Detroit Mercy and Western Illinois. Wright State won the Challenge with an -11 through three rounds.
Traynor started on the back side and went one-over, then tallied a pair of birdies and six pars to help him go one-under on the front. He finished even-par on the front nine for the tournament.
Junior
Jackson Davis followed up his superb Monday start to the season with a 74 to finish even for the tournament and in a tie for 14th place individually. Traynor's 72 Tuesday landed him nine shots back of Davis with
Ryan Riihinen shooting 77 (+12 for the tourney) and
Jackson Ward shaved off nine strokes off his opening round with a final-round 75 on the 6,908-yard track.
DAY ONE RECAP
Junior
Jackson Davis fired an opening-round 69 and followed with a one-over 73 to sit in fifth place individually, pacing the Fighting Hawks' men's golf team at the Crusader Challenge Monday at Sand Creek Country Club. Davis blistered the front nine, carding a five-under 31 with five birdies and four pars, the first sub-70 round by a UND golfer since
Patrick Traynor's 69 in the second week of the 2016-17 season.
Davis began play on the par-four fifth hole and made par. He then birdied three consecutive holes and added three more birdies to ward off three bogeys for three-under 69. UND shot a team score of 299 for its first countable round of the season.
Round two saw Davis go one-over 73 while
Ryan Riihinen joined him at one-over to lead the way in North Dakota's second-round team score of 304. The Fighting Hawks go into Tuesday's final round tied for ninth in the team standings in the strong 15-team field that features teams from the Summit League, Horizon, Missouri Valley and the Big East, among others.
North Dakota heads to the University of Denver on Oct. 4 for the DU Invitational.
