DC golf teams compete at Bluffton Invite

LIMA, Ohio – Defiance College men's and women's golf traveled to Hidden Creek Golf Club in Lima on Sunday for the Bluffton Spring Invitational after Saturday's weather shortened the event to a one-day tournament.

Winter Boroff and Cassady Van Dyke were the lone representatives for the Yellow Jacket women and each cracked the top 20 in the field of 40 golfers. 

Boroff's 87 was the program's best at the tournament, which placed the sophomore tied for 18th. The round was her best of the spring season and second-best of the 2022-23 campaign. She used a sixth-hole birdie to smooth out three double-bogeys on the front nine to end the first half of the course with a 44. Boroff bounced back with a 43 on the back-nine with three pars and just one double bogey. 

Van Dyke shot 88 to finish right behind her teammate in 20th to give her three consecutive rounds of competition below 90. She fired away twin 44s on each half of the links that included five total pars.

Sunday's round was the first of the spring season for the Yellow Jacket men and finished 12th of 12 teams with a four-person 458. Despite all four team scorers shot over 100, it was the third-lowest team score for DC during 2022-23 competition. Zach Canterbury and Seth Pearson each shot 106 to top the team followed by Payton Switzer with 119 and 127 from Will Garlock. It was the first tournament action for Pearson and Grant Johnson, who fired a 142.

Adrian took the top spot on the men's side with a 296 team score, just three strokes better than runner-up Tiffin. Adrian's Hendrick de Koning brought home the individual title as well for the Bulldogs with a three-under 69.

Ohio Northern was the women's champ with a 323, 17 shots buffer than Mount St. Joseph in second place. The women's individual champion was ONU's Grace Hongford with a card of 73.

The men's team is back in action Friday and Saturday for Ohio Northern's Polar Bear Easter Classic while the women play in Lourdes' Gray Wolves Invitational in Ottawa Lake, Mich. on Wednesday.

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