STARKVILLE, Miss. – No. 21 Mississippi State closed its home event, the Mossy Oak Collegiate, with a third-place finish, just two strokes shy of the team title. The Bulldogs posted a three-round total of 826 (38-under).
It was a record day. The team total was tied for the second-best 54-hole score in school history and just three strokes shy of tying the school record. MSU’s second-round team score of 23-under 265 marks the lowest team round in school history. Entering the 2022-23 season, only 15 better rounds against par had been recorded in NCAA Division I history.
MSU has now recorded seven top-five finishes this season, which is tied for the fifth-most such finishes in a season in program history. State has fallen outside the top five at just one tournament this year. With eight rounds in the 60s at Mossy Oak, the Bulldogs now have shot 31 rounds in the 60s this year, which trails only their 34 such rounds in 2018-19 in school history.
Five Bulldogs finished in the top 20 with four inside the top 15. Out of the 11 Bulldogs competing in the team lineup or as individuals, seven golfers carded scores in the 60s in the second round. Of those seven golfers, Hunter Logan, Ford Clegg, Garrett Endicott, and Pedro Cruz Silva all registered bogey-free rounds.
Logan finished tied for third and just one stroke off the individual medalist. He shot a career-low 64 (8-under) in the second round, which comes on the heels of his previous career-low 65 at the Schenkel Invitational. The senior sank 16 birdies throughout the tournament and was 6-under on the back nine in the second round.
Endicott ended in a five-way tie for sixth with 10-under 206. The freshman carded 15 birdies through three rounds, five of which he made on the back nine of the third round. Endicott now has five top-20 finishes in eight career tournaments played as a Bulldog.
Clegg and Cruz Silva both finished tied for 11th with a 9-under 207 final. Clegg carded 16 birdies for the tournament, sinking seven in the second round. Cruz Silva matched his career-low round with a 67 in the second round. Both golfers carded rounds in the 60s in the first two rounds of the tournament.
Alejandro Pedryc finished just his second tournament in the Maroon and White at 7-under 209. The junior transfer fired his lowest score (68) since arriving at MSU…
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