Veterans And Rookies Look To Shine At MIAC Meet

MOORHEAD, Minn. (10/04/13)—Concordia enters this weekend's MIAC Championship Meet fresh off a two-week break that gave the Cobbers a chance to practice on Bunker Hills GC. The extra insight on the championship course should give CC an opportunity to finish in the top 4 at the meet.


MIAC Preview Of The Men's Golf Championship Meet



Concordia is coming off a solid regular season that saw the team put together top 5 finishes in four of the five meets they competed in. The Cobbers' best finish came at the season-opening Concordia Invite where they placed second among eight teams. CC also posted a pair of fourth-place finishes in highly-competitive region events. Concordia finished fourth at both the Augsburg Fall Invite and the UW-Eau Claire Fall Invite. The Augsburg meet featured nine of the 10 teams in the MIAC.

The Cobbers enter the MIAC Championship Meet as one of only four conference teams that have a team stroke average better than 306 this season. CC comes into the league tournament with a team scoring average of 304.8 in their four meets that the top team members played in. That average is only 1.8 strokes behind MIAC leader St. Thomas. Concordia's best team score of the fall was a 291 in the first round of the Concordia Invite.

Individually the Cobbers have a pair of golfers averaging less than 76.0 on the year. Sophomore Landon Poss leads the team with a 74.8 stroke average. He has three top 10 finishes in his four events this year. His best round of the fall was a 70 in the first round of the UW-Eau Claire tournament. Poss earned All-Conference honors last season when he finished in a tie for eighth place with a final total of 227 (76-78-73).  

Coy Papachek is second on the team in scoring with a 75.6 average over eight rounds of play. He holds the best round of any CC player this year. Papachek fired a 68 in the second round of the Concordia Invite and is the only Concordia player to card a round in the 60's this season. Papachek was an All-Conference player two years ago as a freshman.

The other three spots on the team could be filled out by junior Sam Christian and freshmen Cade Montplaisir and Alex Koopmeiners. All three players are within 1.4 shots of one another for scoring average. Christian is averaging 78.0 per round. Montplaisir has a 78.8 average in his first collegiate season and Koopmeiners is close behind at 79.4. Montplaisir has a pair of top 20 finishes on the year. He is coming off his best outing of the year when he finished in a tie for 13^th place at the Eau Claire tournament.

Concordia will be hoping the freshmen will find the Poss magic from last season and the two returning All-MIAC players relive their championship-caliber as the team tries to improve on last year's fifth-place finish at the MIAC Championship Meet.