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September 22, 2006 The Clarion Sports Page 11 BC golf wins third consecutive Montreat Invitational By David Nelson Golf Coach The BC men’s golf team won their first tournament of the fall, a come-from-behind two stroke vic tory over runner-up North Greenville University. Down five strokes to North Greenville after round one on Monday, the Tornados had to play well on Tuesday to overcome the deficit for the win. Craig Galloway lead the way with a second day score of 70 (two under par), the best overall round of the tournament. Myles Johnston, David Martinez, Aus tin Ornelas, and Tommy Bush rounded out the top five. The team total for both days was 599 (303/ 296). “Everyone had written us off,” Galloway said. “But we held off a number of good NCAA Division II opponents and came away with the win. It was a group effort.” There were 13 teams in the tour nament, including future SAC 8 opponent Mars Hill College. This victory marked the third consecu tive year Brevard College has won the Montreat College Invitational. With a roster full of strong re turners and a competitive fresh man in Bush, the Tornados will be looking to improve upon last year’s season, which saw them fm- ish third in Region XII for NAIA. The switch to NCAA Division II should be a challenge for the Tornados, but the men are up for the test, Galloway says. “We beat some good programs in Mars Hill and North Greenville,” he said. “We are ex pecting good things this season.” The team travels to Tusculum College on Oct. 1 to compete against several other NCAA op ponents in the Tusculum College Fall Golf Classic, an event in which they finished third out of 15 last year ■ Men's soccer falls to S. Wesleyan Photo by J. Billingsley By Chelsea Deming Staff Writer The BC Men’s soccer team played Southern Wesleyan (5-2 record pre-game) on Tuesday, and started strongly in the first half, attempting two shots on goal within the first 10 minutes. Min utes later. Southern Wesleyan scored the only goal of the first half off a comer kick. Coming back after half-time, the Tornadoes again outplayed South ern Wesleyan, but couldn’t catch a break, or a goal. Though they had 5 attempts on goal within a 12 minute period, the Southern Wesleyan keeper kept them at bay. Our own Trevor Redpath, keeper for the Tornados, had three saves. The second goal for SW came late in the second half in a much- contested non-call of offsides. Cautions were given to Rob Moore (9) and Douglas Neill (6), and were the only two cards of the game. Even with a total of 9 shots on goal and 8 comer kicks, the Toma- dos’ unlucky—and so far, score less—season continues, due to a “star wars thing,” and not any lack of talent or heart, according to Coach Nelson. The Men’s team will travel to Montreat (1-0) this Friday, and will play North Greenville (3-3) back at home on Saturday at 3:00 pm. I Coach Cason places second in half marathon By Josie Guinn Staff Writer With an impressive time of 1:12:08, Brevard College’s very own Thomas Cason finished sec ond place on Saturday in the Asheville Citizen Times Vi Mara thon. The race was sponsored by the paper, and all proceeds went to the Asheville Buncombe County Christian Ministries and the Asheville Citizen-Times’ Lend-A-Hand Foundation. Out of almost 600 people who entered the 13.1 mile race, 556 fin ished. Cason’s second place was impressive, considering his mere seven second lead on the 3'^'' place winner Cason, who just began his fourth year coaching at Brevard College, is an adamant mnner, and always Coach Thomas Cason makes a point to run with his teams while they’re training. “I mn with the men’s and the women’s team, so they have just as much of a push with me as I do with them.” He went on to say that his team was really excited about it and that he “hopes this sets a good example.” Neither of the teams had prac tice on Saturday, allowing Cason to participate in the race, although he said he could barely keep up when practicing at DuPont. “They had to keep stopping and waiting for me,” he jokingly ad mitted afterwards. Cason attended J.L. Mann High School where he was a three time All-State cross country performer and the state AAA champion in both the 1600m and the 3200m during his senior year In college, he ran during all four of his years at Furman University, which is a member of the Southem Confer ence. He even made the All South ern Conference team in Cross Country, and also collected awards for the 3000m steeplechase. As the BC Cross Country coach, Cason strives to encourage his team to become better each year, and by all accounts, has reached his goals. The team will start this year for the first time at a Division 2 level. This is a step up from their previous standing in the NAIA. “That’s our challenge,” Cason said, “to kind of rise up to that level.” He’s confident that his teams will succeed. The 13 members of the Cross Country team are currently pre paring for their next meet, which will be Saturday, Sept. 23 at Lime stone College. The women will do a 5K race and the men an 8K race.H
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