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Washington Finishes Second At Kikkor Golf Husky Invitational

September 21, 2010 | Men's Golf

By: Washington Athletics

Sept. 21, 2010

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• Final Kikkor Golf Husky Invitational Results

AUBURN, Wash. -- Leaves weren't the only things falling at Washington National Golf Club on Tuesday during the final round of the Kikkor Golf Husky Invitational. Unfortunately for the hometown Huskies, Pepperdine was perched too high up the leaderboard to knock from the top.

While a pair of golfers originally from Olympia, Wash. ushered out the last day of summer by breaking the course record, it was hard to ignore the hometown Huskies -- who combined to shoot the best round of the day -- and their pursuit of Pepperdine.

Washington was 9-under for the day, but was unable to catch Pepperdine who entered the final round with an eight-stroke lead. Pepperdine was -7 for the day and finished at 17-under overall to beat Washington by six strokes.

"We try to win the day, every day...and we won the day today," said Husky head coach Matt Thurmond. "Coming out and being in contention and knowing that we had to catch Pepperdine, we ended up shooting the low round of the day. We did a great job.

"If Pepperdine didn't exist, we would be celebrating right now. You have to give props to them," continued Thurmond, "they played really well. Every time we made a charge they answered."

Pepperdine also swept the top two individual spots with Josh Anderson and Andrew Putnam finishing first and second, respectively. Anderson shot 10-under 206, while Putnam -- who hails from University Place outside of Tacoma -- finished four strokes back at -6 (210).

Chris Williams finished tied for fourth to pace the Huskies at -4 (74-70-68-212). Charlie Hughes also recorded a top-10 finish and ended up at -2.

Besides the team battle by Washington and Pepperdine, the story of the day at the course was Jarred Bossio of Idaho and Cameron Peck of Texas A&M who were paired together and each shot a course record 9-under 63. The duo both attended high school in Olympia (Bossio at Capital and Peck at Timberline) and played junior golf together while growing up.

Bossio finished third overall at 5-under, while Peck tied for sixth at 3-under.

Junior Jens Bracht was the next highest finisher for the Huskies after shooting a 3-under 69 on Tuesday to end up at +1 overall and tied for 16th. Junior Ty Chambers recorded a top-25 finish (21st overall) after his third-consecutive round of 1-over 73.

Freshman Cory McElyea was 40th after ending up at +8 overall.

Kevin Spooner shot a 3-under 69 in the final round to move up 13 spots on the leaderboard and ended up tied for 55th. Freshman Trevor Simsby was 63rd, Gerrit Chambers 70th and Larry Iverson tied for 72nd.

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