Owls Fall to Charlotte in Match Play Semis

Thursday, April 28

Texarkana, Ark. / Texarkana Country Club

8:00 AM

Florida Atlantic

Charlotte

4/28/2022 2:37:00 PM | Men's Golf

Texarkana, Ark. – The Florida Atlantic University men's golf team was eliminated by Charlotte in the match play semifinals of the C-USA Championship on Thursday. The Owls will learn whether they've received an at-large bid to Regionals when the NCAA announces the qualifiers on May 4 at 4 pm ET on Golf Channel.

Quick Hits

After finishing first in the stroke play portion of the event, the Owls were not given any favors with their opponent in the semifinals of match play
Charlotte entered the week ranked 32nd in Division I with three players inside the top 120 individually
Max Sturdza was the Owls' lone victor in Thursday's matches
The junior defeated Carson Ownbey 3-UP
Guilherme Grinberg rallied from a 2-DOWN deficit after 10 holes and tied (87) Matt Sharpstene. The match was called a draw due to Charlotte having already clinched the necessary three points to advance
Juan Delgado was defeated by (48) Dongjin Park 6&5
Jake Hibbert fell to Conor Gough 2&1
Alex Maguire came up short against (111) Ben Woodruff 4&2

Quotable

Head coach Mark Leon
"Obviously today makes what had been a wonderful week into a bittersweet one. For three rounds in stroke play, we played well enough to earn medalist honors. That's something FAU has never come close to doing."

On what's next for the program
"Our goal for this year has always been to see how much we could improve as a group. These guys have endured a lot of ups and down and I'm proud of how they represented FAU through it all. Three months ago, we weren't even ranked inside the Top 100. Now we are an NCAA bubble team. That's an accomplishment in and of itself. This team isn't done, and we will be ready for whatever is next."

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