The University of Alabama at Birmingham Athletics
Pair Paces UAB Men's Golfers At LSU
10/25/2004 12:00:00 AM | Men's Golf
Oct. 25, 2004
BATON ROUGE, La. - Senior Chris Cousins and sophomore Garrett Osborn both fired one-under-par totals for the first two rounds of the LSU-University Club Intercollegiate on Monday afternoon to pace the UAB Blazers, who stand in 13th place with one round to go. Southern Methodist blazed their own trail and took the lead after the first two rounds in the three-round tournament hosted by LSU at the par-72, 7,205-yard University Club Golf Course.
UAB's team scores of 292 and 281 put the Blazers seven shots ahead of the College of Charleston and two strokes from North Florida. Tulane, the only other Conference USA school in the field, is four strokes in front of the Blazers with a seven-under-par team total of 569.
"We didn't shoot very well in the first round, but got better," UAB head coach Alan Kaufman said. "Hopefully, we can trim a few strokes off tomorrow and make it interesting."
Osborn fired UAB's low round of the day with a three-under-par 69 on the second 18 of the day. Cousins fired rounds of 73 and 70 to tie his teammate and six others for 32nd individually. Will Dodson of Southern Methodist and Chris Wells of host LSU both shot nine-under-par for the day to lead the medalist race for the tournament.
Other Blazers of note in action on Monday included senior Ryan Thomas (72-72=144, T-40th), junior Clark Brown (77-70=147, T-56th), and Will Wilcox (73-75=148, T-62nd).
The third and final round of the tournament will tee off on Tuesday morning.
