The University of Akron Athletics
Golf Gets Underway This Weekend
September 06 | Men's Golf
- The 2006 season will get underway for the University of Akron
men's golf team this weekend when they travel to DeKalb, Ill. to
participate in the Rich Harvest Farms Intercollegiate.
The Zips will have the opportunity to play at the Rich Harvest
Farms Course, site of the 2007 NCAA Men's Golf Regional, this
weekend. The par-72, 7,325-yard course is the home of fellow MAC
member and tournament host, Northern Illinois.
Akron will be under the tutelage of first-year head coach
Tom
Porten as it takes to the links for the first time this fall.
Prior to coming to UA, Porten spent 14 seasons as the head coach of
the men's golf program at Cleveland State University, including the
last six years as the head coach of both the men's and women's
teams. In 2006 he led the Vikings men's squad to the Horizon League
championship, earning league coach of the year honors. In addition,
two of his players were named to the All-Horizon League team.
Senior
Blake Sattler (New
Philadelphia, Ohio/New Philadelphia HS) leads the Zips squad that
features two seniors, three juniors, three sophomores and two
freshmen. Sattler is coming off of an 11th-place finish at the Ohio
Amateur in July, where he fired a 5-over total of 289 (71-70-78-70)
for the tournament.
Junior
Ryan Gutowski (Copley,
Ohio/Copley HS) and
Vaughn Snyder (Massillon,
Ohio/ Canton Central Catholic HS) were the other Zips golfers to
advance to the final round of the Ohio Amateur.
Other teams participating in the Rich Harvest Farms
Intercollegiate include: Ball State, Colorado, Indiana, Kansas,
Kansas State, Louisville, Marquette, Michigan, Missouri and
Southern Methodist. Missouri boasts the 2006 U.S. Amateur
Championship runner-up in senior John Kelly.
Live scoring can be found at www.golfstat.com, or through links
via www.niuhuskies.com.
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